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员开发雄心勃勃的创新研究项目，并通过强大而广泛的职业发展和指导计划来支持文化遗产部门的未来领导者。该计划旨在解决该部门目前的缺点，最值得注意的是，在博士生学习结束后，通过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，以作为研究人员浏览IRO和GLAM部门组织。它旨在扩大和保持多样性，并建立该部门的研究能力，产生高质量的，具有公共利益的创新研究。（三）评价和报告。计划活动将寻求平衡协调小组的专业知识，以设计一个响应GLAM部门和未来领导需求的事件和活动计划，同时认识到应对奖学金队列和个人奖学金本身的集体需求所需的灵活性。将提供一个响应性赠款计划，使研究员能够利用和扩大他们的个人和集体领导的机会。将在整个活动规划过程中进行平等影响评估，考虑无障碍需求，适应不同的学习方式，以及照顾责任等其他考虑因素。这将指导我们在亲自和远程/混合活动之间取得平衡的方法。通过这个试点计划的交付和评估，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.