INVITATION ONLY
This exclusive event welcomes the new cohort of Academic Champions and Visiting Professors to the scheme, with the aim of fostering a lifelong community of like-minded peers.
You will have the chance to:
• meet past awardees who will share their experience with you
• find out more about the scheme and reporting needs
• network with the new cohort and share plans, ideas and areas of concern.
• learner about other opportunities to network with awardees across other schemes.
Programme
| Time | Activity |
| 10.00am | Registration opens and refreshments served |
| 10.30am | Welcome |
| 10.40am | UK Engineering Skills Challenge |
| 11.10am | Q&A on presentations |
| 11.20am | The rough guide to being an Academic Champion |
| 11.30am | The rough guide to being an Academy Visiting Professor |
| 11.40am | Being a Visiting Professor |
| 11.50am | Q&A following presentations |
| 12.00pm | Break |
| 12.15pm | Breakout session - Expected challenges and support |
| 12.50pm | Communal Feedback following Breakout sessions |
| 1.00pm | Lunch and networking |
| 1.45pm | Reporting expectations of the Academy, our MS Teams Community, Awards Excellence Community |
| 2.25pm | Being a Visiting Professor and Academic Champion |
| 2.55pm | Q&A following presentations |
| 3.05pm | Break |
| 3.15pm | Table group work - share your plans and goals for the scheme |
| 3.40pm | Feedback from group work and Q&A |
| 3.55pm | Closing remarks |
| 4.00pm | Drinks reception |
| 5.00pm | Close |
Photography/filming notice
Please note that photography/filming may take place during this event. All photographs and videos will be securely stored on the Academy’s servers and used for editorial, marketing and media use by the Academy and selected press or industry media. Please let us know if you do not agree to this processing. Please refer to our General Privacy Policy for more details.
Venue and accessibility
It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact the Events team more than one week in advance of this event so that necessary arrangements can be made. Contact details: [email protected].
Further information about accessibility at Prince Philip House can be found at: https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/accessibility.
Diversity monitoring form
The Academy is committed to building an inclusive economy that works for everyone. To help us achieve this, we would like to collect some basic anonymous data about the event attendees. If you would like to help, please complete the diversity monitoring form by logging into your user account on our website and completing ‘Update my D&I data’.