Scheme Coordination and Cohort-Building: Early Career Research Fellowships in Cultural and Heritage IROs

该计划将与IRO社区和更广泛的GLAM部门合作，通过支持早期职业研究研究员开发雄心勃勃的创新研究项目，以强大而广泛的职业发展和指导计划为基础，培养一批文化遗产领域的未来领导者。该项目旨在解决该领域目前的不足，尤其是博士生学业结束后的空缺，为一批早期职业研究员提供文化和遗产领域关键问题的全面基础，为他们提供工具、技术和信心，使他们能够以研究人员的身份在iro和GLAM部门组织中工作。它寻求扩大和保持多样性，并建立该部门的研究能力，产生具有公共利益的高质量创新研究。一个设在V&A的协调小组将通过三个工作流程来回应接待机构和奖学金获得者个人的需求：1)支持奖学金提案的制定和委托；II)设计和提供队列发展计划；III)评估和报告。项目活动将寻求平衡协调小组在设计响应GLAM部门和未来领导需求的事件和活动计划方面的专业知识，同时认识到响应奖学金群体和个别研究员自身的集体需求所需的灵活性。将提供一个响应性赠款计划，使研究员能够建立和扩大他们个人和集体领导的机会。平等影响评估将在活动规划的整个过程中进行，考虑无障碍需求，适应不同的学习风格，以及照顾责任等其他因素。这将指导我们在现场和远程/混合活动之间取得平衡的方法。通过这个试点项目的交付和评估，我们的目标是为未来的研究奖学金创建一个模板，可以在整个文化和遗产部门推广。

This programme will develop a cohort of future leaders in the cultural heritage sector, by supporting Early Career Research Fellows to develop ambitious and innovative research projects, buttressed by a robust and expansive career development and mentoring programme, in partnership with the IRO community and wider GLAM sector.This programme is designed to address current shortcomings in the sector, most notably the break in the pipeline after the end of doctoral students' studies, by providing a cohort of Early Career Fellows with a thorough grounding of key issues in the cultural and heritage sector, equip them with the tools, techniques and confidence to navigate IROs and GLAM sector organisations as researchers. It seeks to expand and retain diversity, and build research capacity in the sector, producing high-quality, innovative research with public benefit.A Coordination Team, based at the V&A, will respond to both the needs of host organisations and individual Fellows, through three workstreams: I) Supporting the Development and Commissioning of Fellowship Proposals; II) Designing and Delivering a Cohort Development Programme; III) Evaluating and Reporting. The programme activities will seek to balance the expertise of the Coordination Team in designing a programme of events and activities that respond to GLAM sector and future leadership needs, whilst recognising the flexibility needed to respond to the collective needs of the Fellowship cohort and the individual Fellows themselves. A responsive grants scheme will be offered to enable Fellows to build on and expand their individually- and collectively-led opportunities. Equality Impact Assessments will be conducted throughout the planning for the activities, considering accessibility needs, accommodating different styles of learning, and additional considerations such as caring responsibilities. This will guide our approach to the balance between in person and remote/hybrid events.Through the delivery and evaluation of this pilot programme, we aim to create a template for future research fellowships that can be rolled out across the cultural and heritage sector.