Call for proposals (deadline 15/10/25) for the Research and Knowledge Exchange Festival 10-14 November 2025

SAM Research and Knowledge Exchange (R&KE) Festival with a main week which will take place from 10th–14th November 2025 and with satellite events throughout November. The Postgraduate Research Culture Symposium for PGR and PGT students and staff will take place on the 12th November in the Sallis Benney Theatre from 10am-4pm.

This is a great opportunity for staff to share our research and make connections between our teaching, research, and knowledge exchange. We are aiming to offer a wide range of sessions and activities focusing on research or knowledge exchange that will be open to all students and colleagues, as well as sessions targeted for staff development led by R&KE Leads and the research central team, there will also be activities organised by the REGs.

We are inviting proposals for sessions that may be about research and knowledge exchange at any stage of development: it might involve sharing initial thoughts, talks about work in progress, reports on completed research or more participatory approaches or online workshops.

We would also like to encourage staff to embed research informed teaching activities into timetabled sessions which can be promoted as part of the festival and may be open sessions or closed to celebrate research informed teaching in the school.

Please submit your proposal to Karen Gainsford via SAMRKE@brighton.ac.uk with the subject “R&KE Festival” before midnight Wednesday 15th October including:

  • The title
  • A paragraph to describe the session
  • A large rectangular image minimum of 1280 pixels in width with a setting of 72dpi and in JPEG format or PNG format
  • An indication of who the session would be open to (e.g. staff, students, all?)
  • Which courses, levels might this be of interest to?
  • The session duration
  • Any specific days/times you could run the session during research week
  • Room requirements
  • Format (in person/ blended/ online/ pre-recorded)

DO NOTE THAT SLOTS AND ROOMS ARE NOW BEING FILLED

 

Best wishes

 

Charlotte

Dr Charlotte Gould (she/her)

Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Exchange

(Edited for blog by Karen Gainsford)