[Board] [Marketing] Fwd: Request for funding for Early Career Researcher support for GISRUK 2023
Nick Bearman
nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
Tue Apr 11 10:27:09 PDT 2023
Hi Board,
I understand a motion on this has been added to
https://www.loomio.com/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board. Thanks to everyone who
has voted.
I am being pressed by GISRUK for a decision and payment by 13th April,
as the conference starts on next week on the 18th! Please could we
progress a decision on this soon.
Best wishes,
Nick.
On 3/23/23 10:24, Nick Bearman via Board wrote:
>
> Hi Adam, everyone,
>
> Thanks for the note about the agenda - I have spotted it now. I'm
> still working out the processes, so apologies if I missed checking
> something before sending the email.
>
> I will be the first to admit the academic sector is not perfect - far
> from it. (If you know of a perfect working environment, let me know!).
> The current series of UCU strikes in the UK academic sector being a
> prime example of this. In fact, I have left academia and am now
> working as a freelance consultant. (I will happily share my
> experiences with anyone who is interested!)
>
> As I am sure you have seen, we use the term ECR to define as anyone in
> a precarious employment position: "masters students, PhD students or
> post-docs (prior to getting a permanent lectureship position, i.e.
> tenure)". Approx 15 years ago we used the term "Young Researchers"
> instead, but this was quite rightly replaced with ECRs, as the term
> "young" discriminates against those who have had a career break, or
> who have joined academia later in their careers.
>
> I'd happily replace ECR with "ECRs / precarious research workers" or
> even "precarious research workers" if you wish.
>
> Clearly we need to and want to restrict the support to those not in
> permanent employment, as a significant proportion/all of those people
> are privileged (depending how you define privileged) so if you have
> some alternative wording, please do suggest this!
>
> I'm not sure whether I will be able to make it to the board meeting or
> not, but if I can I will.
>
> Best wishes,
> Nick.
>
> On 22/03/2023 20:09, Adam Steer wrote:
>> Hi Nick, all
>>
>> This is on the agenda for the next board meeting (28/3).
>>
>> I need to be very blunt about my own opinion on this: I've just spent
>> 2.5 years seeing and experiencing "ECR" used as a tool to gaslight
>> and punch down on precarious research workers. I'm personally happy
>> if I never hear or see the term again, because it's just another way
>> to enshrine existing privilege in the academic system and extend the
>> current broken philosophy of how academia works.
>>
>> Remove the EC part and things look much better ;)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> --
>> https://iamadamsteer.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 02:52 Nick Bearman
>> <nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Board and Marketing,
>>
>> How are we progressing with a decision on this?
>>
>> The GISRUK conference is soon (18th - 23rd April 2023) so I would
>> like
>> to confirm whether you have ok'd the funding.
>>
>> From the comments I've heard, it's sounding positive. GISRUK are
>> also
>> keen to show OSGeo's support, and have added the logo to their
>> website
>> already! https://gisruk.org/gisruk-2023/
>>
>> If you need any more information, please ask me.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Nick.
>>
>> On 27/02/2023 10:04, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
>> > Hello board,
>> >
>> > I hope you are all fine.
>> >
>> > I forward this mail from Nick Bearman to the board.
>> >
>> > The GISRUK event is already listed at
>> https://www.osgeo.org/events/21631/
>> > Marketing committee will support with material.
>> >
>> > For the budget request we thought to ask the board to decide
>> about the
>> > financial support.
>> >
>> > I think Nicks goal to develop greater links between OSGeo:UK
>> and the
>> > academic community in the UK is great. So I would support the
>> support
>> > for the event.
>> >
>> > See you Astrid
>> >
>> > -------- Originalnachricht --------
>> > Betreff: [Marketing] Request for funding for Early Career
>> Researcher
>> > support for GISRUK 2023
>> > Datum: 27.01.2023 13:12
>> > Von: Nick Bearman <nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk>
>> > An: Marketing <marketing at lists.osgeo.org>
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > As Chair of OSGeo:UK, I am trying to develop greater links between
>> > OSGeo:UK and the academic community in the UK. I organised a very
>> > successful FOSS4G:UK Local 2022
>> > (https://uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2022local/) with approximately 300
>> > attendees across the UK. We managed some engagement with the UK
>> GIS
>> > academic community (two venues out of nine being hosting by
>> > universities and 16 respondents out of the 108 who responded to
>> the
>> > survey identifying as students or academics). However, I think
>> we can
>> > do more with the academic community in the UK, and I think they
>> could
>> > be a great source of people and contributions to OSGeo (global and
>> > local) and open source projects more generally.
>> >
>> > The annual Geographical Information Science Research UK (GISRUK)
>> > conference is happening in Glasgow, UK on 18th - 23rd April 2023
>> > (https://gisruk.org/gisruk-2023/) and strongly supports ECRs
>> (Early
>> > Career Researchers). ECRs are typically masters students, PhD
>> students
>> > or post-docs (prior to getting a permanent lectureship
>> position, i.e.
>> > tenure). GISRUK run a series of workshops and sessions for ECRs
>> and I
>> > would like OSGeo to sponsor one or more of these. Typically GISRUK
>> > attracts around 100-150 participants, and usually ~50 of these
>> are ECRs.
>> >
>> > I am asking for US$750 (~GBP£606) to support this. I would
>> suggest we
>> > use this to sponsor an ECR evening session (e.g. pizza or
>> similar).
>> > This usually takes place at the beginning of the conference, to
>> > facilitate their networking and integration into the wider
>> conference.
>> > Any surplus could also be used to support ECR scholarships, which
>> > would pay for the registration fee for any ECRs who do not have
>> > funding from their university to attend the conference.
>> >
>> > I appreciate I am not being very specific yet, but I think
>> there is
>> > scope for some negotiation with the GISRUK organisers. Attached is
>> > their 'standard' information for sponsors, but I think we could
>> > probably get a stand, session sponsorship and maybe some
>> scholarships
>> > with the $750.
>> >
>> > In terms of support from the marketing committee, I already have a
>> > role up banner from the code-sprint (thanks Astrid!) and a few
>> left
>> > over stickers and print outs from FOSS4G & FOSS4G:UK. I think some
>> > OSGeo:UK stickers would be good (OSGeo:UK can pay for those)
>> and I am
>> > open to suggestions as to what else might be good. I suspect
>> stickers
>> > would go down well with this audience.
>> >
>> > For full openness, I am on the GISRUK National Steering Committee,
>> > with responsibility for ECRs (Business). We also have a ECR
>> (Academic)
>> > rep, James Haworth. I am also Treasurer of the RGS-IBG GISc
>> Research
>> > Group, who are contributing to the scholarships as well.
>> >
>> > I hope this covers my request in enough detail. If you have any
>> > questions, please do ask!
>> >
>> > Best wishes,
>> > Nick.
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Marketing mailing list
>> > Marketing at lists.osgeo.org
>> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
>>
>> --
>> Nick Bearman
>> +44 (0)7717745715
>> nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
>>
>> Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me
>> outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure
>> to respond outside of your own working pattern.
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Marketing mailing list
>> Marketing at lists.osgeo.org
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
>>
> --
> Nick Bearman
> +44 (0)7717745715
> nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
>
> Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Board mailing list
> Board at lists.osgeo.org
> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
--
Nick Bearman
+44 (0) 7717745715
nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/attachments/20230411/3daf2a27/attachment-0001.htm>
More information about the Board
mailing list