[Board] [Marketing] Fwd: Request for funding for Early Career Researcher support for GISRUK 2023
Angelos Tzotsos
gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 14:04:41 PDT 2023
Hi Nick,
A reminder has been sent through Loomio.
On 4/11/23 20:27, Nick Bearman via Board wrote:
> 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.
>>> >
>>> >
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>>> -- Nick Bearman
>>> +44 (0)7717745715
>>> nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
>>>
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>> nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
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