GRADnet: The Graduate Network of SEPnet

SUMMER SCHOOL

“Leadership and Impact”

6th-8th July 2015

IBM

Programme and Workbook

Contents Welcome ............................................................................................................................................. 1

Day 1: You as a Leader ...................................................................................................................... 2

Developing Leadership Skills ............................................................................................................ 4

You as a Leader .................................................................................................................................. 5 Feedback ............................................................................................................................................ 7

Group Decision Making .................................................................................................................... 8

Day 2: Leading in the ‘Real World’ ................................................................................................... 9

Creative and Strategic Leadership ................................................................................................... 10

SWOT Analysis ................................................................................................................................. 11

PEST Analysis .................................................................................................................................. 12 Day 3: Leadership to Create Impact ................................................................................................ 14

Pathways to Impact .......................................................................................................................... 15

Your Impact Strategy ....................................................................................................................... 16

Biographies....................................................................................................................................... 19

General Information ........................................................................................................................ 22 Directions ........................................................................................................................................ 23

Delegate List .................................................................................................................................... 24

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Welcome

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the second GRADnet Summer School. This is an exciting opportunity for you to focus on the skills required for effective leadership and maximising the impact of your research. This will be an interactive three days in which you will learn by doing through working in teams on various challenges including some real world challenges designed by IBM. Throughout the week you will alternate leaders within your teams so that everyone will have the chance to actively practice leading a team. This is experience that can be highlighted on your CV or referred to in interview when discussing leadership. On the final day we will focus on Impact exploring the technological, societal, economic, political impact of physics and of physicists, discussing examples of how physics has made an impact on the world. You will also consider the future impact of your own research. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the contributors to this summer school, both individuals and corporations including: Rob Lamb, Dr Anthony O’Dowd, Matthew Whitborne, Dale Lane, Kevin Turner, Joe Pavitt, Dr Trevor Long, Dr John Lillington, Pearl John and Prof Sir William Wakeham as well as a special thank you to IBM for hosting the event and contributing to the content.

The GRADnet Directorate: Dr Dawn Duke Professor Pam Denicolo Professor Peter McDonald

We encourage you to tweet and share your experiences. Please use the hash tag #GRADnetSummerSchool

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Day 1: You as a Leader

During this day you will explore what it means to be a leader and learn about different styles of leadership. Through this process you will discover your own natural leadership style and the strengths and weaknesses associated with different styles of leadership. You will learn the importance of developing a range of leadership skills and attributes so that you are able to act flexibly as a leader in order to respond to different people and situations. There will also be an opportunity to have a closer look at some of the innovative projects IBM is undertaking through hands on tours.

Time Details Location

09:30 Coach pick up Winchester Station

10:00 Registration Galileo Centre Main Reception IBM Hursley Park

10.20 Rob Lamb, Vice-President, European Middleware Development, IBM Software Group Innovation Theatre

10:30

Dr Anthony O’Dowd, Cloud Technologist, IBM Keynote: “Being a Physicist in IT”

Innovation Theatre

11:00 Dr Dawn Duke: Introduction to Course Innovation Theatre

11.15 Ice Breaker: What is leadership? Innovation Theatre/Room 6/7/GO108/GO109

11:30 Leadership Task 1: Leading in a team Innovation Theatre/Room 6/7/GO108/GO109

12:30 Networking Lunch Innovation Theatre

13:15 IBM Tours

14:15 Dr Trevor Long: Leadership for Meaningful Engagement Innovation Theatre

15:15 Leadership Task 2: Leading a project

Outside

17:30 Close and Coach pick up

Flexible coffee and tea break mid-morning and mid-afternoon

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Notes from Keynote Talk:

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Developing Leadership Skills What does leadership mean to you? What skills are necessary for a leader? Write some specific examples of you acting as a leader during your doctorate.

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You as a Leader

Your strengths: Your weaknesses: Experiences that have shaped you: Key motivators:

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Assigned vs. Emergent Leadership Assigned Leadership is based on a formal position in an organisation

Emergent Leadership is acquired through interactions with others

Factors associated with Emergent Leadership include: o Communication behaviour e.g. seeking others’ opinion, initiating new ideas

o Personality e.g. confidence openness to experience

o Cognitive ability

Achieve the task A leader who consistently fails to achieve the task is unlikely to remain a leader. Be clear about objectives, how you are going to achieve them, and to what standard.

Build the team A team exists because one person cannot achieve the task alone. Developing loyalty, pride in belonging, and pride in achievement.

TEAM TASK

IDENTIFYING AND BALANCING THE NEEDS

INDIVIDUAL Develop individuals The leader must ensure that each individual knows what is expected of them. Give recognition for excellent performance. Match tasks to capabilities, challenge and stretch - enable people to grow. Support and counsel.

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Feedback You will be asked to give constructive feedback to your fellow postgraduate researchers. Remember: The purpose of giving feedback is to provide information and practical advice to help the receiver improve. It is NOT about criticising. Rules for giving constructive feedback

1. Consider the value of your feedback to the receiver. If there isn’t any value then do not give that piece of feedback

2. Good feedback should include things that an individual did well and areas for improvement

3. Be sincere and give specific examples

4. Limit your feedback to the most important aspects; simplify and prioritise your points. Do not include everything because too much feedback can overload the receiver and may be counter-productive

5. Individuals are more likely to remember criticism than positive comments so, ensure the balance of positive comments outweighs the comments about areas for improvement

Receiving constructive feedback

1. Accept feedback as a gift. Thank the giver, consider it, and then do with it as you wish (some gifts are valuable and well-used, others go straight to the charity shop!)

2. Consider who is giving you the feedback. This may bias their point of view – refer to point 1 on this list

3. Accept compliments rather than dismissing them – we tend to believe any criticism to be true but not any praise

4. When feedback is critical or pointing out areas for improvement, avoid defending yourself - refer to point 1 on this list

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Group Decision Making Day 1 Leadership Tasks: Reflection and Feedback

What happened? How did the activities go? What were the main challenges? How did you feel about the activities? So what? What is your evaluation of your own performance, and that of your team? What criteria are you using to judge this? What feedback did you receive, and how did (or will) you respond to it? Now what? What have you learned from this? How could you do things differently in future?

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Day 2: Leading in the ‘Real World’

During the second day you will undertake activities that are grounded in real world business with two activities led by IBM staff. Throughout the day you will explore how to work dynamically in teams to create innovative solutions and to solve strategic problems. The role of leaders in supporting and motivating others and in convincingly sharing their vision will be highlighted.

Time Details Location

08:30 Coach departs University of Winchester

09:00 Dawn Duke: Introduction to Day 2 Innovation Theatre

09:10 Leadership Task 3: Creative Leadership Hackathon – Joe Pavitt, IBM

Innovation Theatre/Room 6/7/GO108/GO109

13:00 Networking Lunch Innovation Theatre

13:45 Leadership and Strategic Thinking Innovation Theatre

14:45

Leadership task 4: IBM Strategic Leadership – Matt Whitborne and Dale Lane, IBM

Innovation Theatre/Room 6/7/GO108/GO109

17:30 Close

18:00 BBQ Club House, Hursley Park

21:00 Coach pick up Club House, Hursley Park

Flexible coffee and tea break mid-morning and mid-afternoon

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Creative and Strategic Leadership

Creative Leadership

Strategic Leadership

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SWOT Analysis Strengths Weaknesses

Opportunities

Threats

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Day 2: Leadership Tasks: Reflection and Feedback

What happened? How did the activities go? What were the main challenges? How did you feel about the activities? So what? What is your evaluation of your own performance, and that of your team? What criteria are you using to judge this? What feedback did you receive, and how did (or will) you respond to it? Now what? What have you learned from this? How could you do things differently in future?

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Day 3: Leadership to Create Impact

On the final day you will learn how physicists can have a broader influence beyond individual teams, in a day that is both aspirational, yet practical. You will learn ways to put your influential leadership skills into practice in order to create research impact both in the immediate future through activities such as public engagement, and in the future through developing impact strategies. At the end of the day you will present persuasive ‘pitches’ demonstrating your team’s efforts in the previous day’s Hackathon, and highlighting the potential societal/economic impact of your ideas. And of course, there will be prizes!

Flexible coffee and tea break mid-morning and mid-afternoon

Time Details Location

08:30 Coach departs University of Winchester

09:00 Dawn Duke: Introduction to Day 3 Innovation Theatre

09:10 What is Impact? Innovation Theatre

10:00 Dr John Lillington, Chief Technologist, Amec Foster Wheeler: What is Impact? Innovation Theatre

10:45 Your Impact Plan+ Impact Wall Innovation Theatre

12:00 Pearl John, Public Engagement Leader, University of Southampton: “Towards Good Practice: Impact and Public Engagement”

Innovation Theatre

12:45 Networking Lunch Innovation Theatre Foyer

13:30 Prepare Presentations with Impact Innovation Theatre/Room 6/7/GO108/GO109

14:30 Prof Sir William Wakeham, SEPnet Chair: Importance of Physics Leaders to the Economy and Society

Innovation Theatre

15:00 Hackathon presentations Innovation Theatre

16:45 Prizes Innovation Theatre

17:00 Close – Coach pick up at 17:30 Innovation Theatre

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Pathways to Impact

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Your Impact Strategy

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Action planning notes

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Biographies

Professor Pam Denicolo, GRADnet Director, University of Surrey Pam Denicolo a chartered constructivist psychologist and honorary pharmacist, is an advisor to the GRADnet team on doctoral support and training. For many years she managed and developed the University of Reading Graduate School, providing a substantial contribution to its Research Methods, Generic Skills and Doctoral Supervisor training. Her passion for supporting graduate students and other early career researchers is demonstrated through her numerous successful doctoral candidates and her leading roles in national and international organisations such as the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching, the Society for Research into Higher Education Postgraduate Network, the Impact and Evaluation Group and other working groups of Vitae, and the QAA Doctoral Characteristics Advisory Group, as well as the UK Council for Graduate Education, all of which have resulted in many publications, presentations and workshops. For instance, she edits and contributes to the Sage book series: Success in Research, aimed at those in the early years of a research career. She also continues her doctoral supervision at Reading while enjoying Emeritus status and is also a consultant to the Postgraduate Development Programme at Surrey.

Dr Dawn Duke, GRADnet Director, University of Surrey

Dawn Duke is the Director for Graduate Training for GRADnet and is responsible for creating a programme of employability skills training for physics doctoral researchers across the SEPnet partner institutions. She is also the head of Researcher Development at the University of Surrey. She has been involved in the design and development of skills training for doctoral researchers for the past six years. She has a special interest in how to help researchers to develop employability skills so that they are able to be successful both within and outside of academia. She is also interested in creating training to support researchers through transition stages, such as the transition into research and the transition from research student to the next stage in their career, which are often particularly challenging times for researchers. Prior to her involvement in researcher development, Dawn was a researcher and part-time lecturer. She received her PhD from Imperial College in Neuroscience. Pearl John, Public Engagement Leader, University of Southampton Pearl John is the Public Engagement Leader in Physics and Astronomy and teaches on the University’s postgraduate Outreach and Public Engagement training course. Pearl advises academics on ways in which to engage the public with their research. She is currently undertaking a part-time PhD at De Montfort University, Leicester in Holography and Lenticular imaging. Public Engagement and Impact Talk: “Towards Good Practice: Impact and Public Engagement” This talk will outline the importance of embedding public engagement and Pathways to Impact into the research process. The talk will include an overview of the drivers for public engagement, ways in which activities and their impact can be planned and successfully evaluated and give examples of better practice.

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Rob Lamb, Vice-President, European Middleware Development, IBM Software Group Rob Lamb leads IBM’s European software development laboratories. It’s a team of over 8,000 professionals responsible for the strategy, development, and support of key IBM product areas such as application server technology, integration solutions, analytics, and operational management. Throughout his career, Rob has held a number of executive positions with worldwide responsibility in sales, marketing, strategy, and product development in the WebSphere, Rational, and Tivoli (CS&I) software brands. His primary areas of expertise are application and integration middleware, security middleware, and application delivery methodologies (DevOps). Most recently, he has been active shaping IBM’s cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Rob is a graduate in Computing Science from the University of Portsmouth, UK, holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Durham University, UK, and has been elected a Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP) and Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS). Dale Lane, Lead Developer, IBM Dale Lane is a lead developer for IBM Watson - a cognitive question-answering system that achieved some fame in the US in 2011 when it was entered as a contestant into a quiz show on national TV. Prior to this, Dale spent several years as a member of IBM's Emerging Technologies division, creating prototypes in social web and mobile, augmented and virtual realities, biometrics, the mining and analysis of Big Data, and the infrastructure to enable the Internet of Things. Dr John Lillington, Chief Technologist, Amec Foster Wheeler John Lillington has worked for 40 years within the UK Nuclear Industry with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), its privatised sector, AEA Technology, Serco and most recently Amec Foster Wheeler. He originally graduated in mathematics from the University of London (BSc, PhD) and is a Fellow of the Institutes of Physics and Mathematics (FInstP, FIMA) and a Chartered Engineer (CEng). During his career, he has worked on all the major nuclear reactor systems (water, gas and fast reactor) as a theoretical physicist, safety analyst, technical programme, resource and project manager. He is currently Chief Technologist, Nuclear Reactors within Amec Foster Wheeler. He is a part-time lecturer and examiner at several UK universities and has published two books and numerous articles on nuclear power related subjects. Dr Trevor Long PhD MBA Trevor Long is an independent educator and consultant. He works with business schools and universities teaching and supervising on strategy, leadership, and organisational change, and on research projects for MBA and executive education programmes in many different parts of the world. His doctoral and recent research activities have developed his passion for understanding how leaders may most meaningfully engage their people to simultaneously enhance both well-being and performance.

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Dr Anthony O’Dowd, Cloud Technologist, IBM Anthony O'Dowd is a Cloud Technologist working at IBM. He's held a wide range of roles at IBM, and worked with clients around the world helping them to design effective business systems. Anthony holds a PhD from Manchester University, where he worked as part of the OPAL Experiment on the Large Electron Positron collider at CERN, the precursor to the LHC. Keynote: “Being a Physicist in IT”

Physicists have an approach to analysis and problem solving that is universally applicable in the information technology business. Current trends such as Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud computing as well as the emerging trends of Cryptographic currencies, Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence provide a rich hunting ground for physicists to apply their skills. In this short talk, we'll share why there's never been a better time to be a physicist in information technology. Joe Pavitt, UI Designer & Developer, IBM Joe Pavitt is a UI Designer & Developer for Emerging Technology Services, and is currently contracted to Watson full-time. Joe has been with IBM for 18 months, and in addition to his ETS role, was previously the lead UI designer and developer on a cloud-based analytics product called CICS Operational Insights. Prior to IBM he studied at the University of Southampton and graduated with an MEng in Aeronautics & Astronautics with Spacecraft Engineering. Matt Whitborne, z Service Management Strategy Director, IBM Matt Whitborne is the Portfolio and Strategy Director for IBM's Service Management offerings for z Systems. In this role he is responsible for managing IBM's offering portfolio to help clients monitor and manage their critical business applications deployed on IBM's mainframe servers. Matt is also an IBM Master inventor and has filed in excess of 20 patents. Professor Sir William Wakeham, Royal Academy of Engineering Professor Sir William Wakeham retired as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton in September 2009. After degrees in Physics at Exeter University and a postdoctoral period in USA at Brown University, USA, he spent his academic career in the Chemical Engineering Department at Imperial College London where he became Deputy Rector in 1996. He has been a Member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and in 2008 he chaired a Review of Physics in the UK and completed a review of the effectiveness of Full Economic Costing of Research in 2010. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Senior Vice-President from 2011 and its International Secretary, a President (2011-2012) of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, University of Exeter, as well as Chair of the Exeter Science Park Company, Non-Executive Director of Ilika plc, Chair of the South East Physics Network, Trustee of Royal Anniversary Trust and the Rank Prizes Fund. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 2009 for services to Chemical Engineering and Higher Education.

General Information

Summer School Desk

The summer school desk will be open on Monday, 6th July from 10:00-11:00 and is located on level 1, room 3, Galileo Centre. Please check in at the Galileo Centre Main Reception and collect your IBM pass and summer school name badge which you must wear at all times while on IBM premises. You can contact Cristobel Soares-Smith, summer school administrator, by e-mail at gradnetadmin@sepnet.ac.uk, or via the summer school desk. The emergency mobile contact number is 0779978625. The summer school desk will be open at the following times: Monday 10:00-16:00 Tuesday 08.30-16:00 Wednesday 08.30-16:00 IBM: The IBM website is: http://www.ibm.com/uk/en/ The address: IBM United Limited Hursley Park Winchester SO21 2JN Galileo Reception Telephone: 01962 245093 A map can be found here: http://www-05.ibm.com/uk/locations/hursley.html Internet Access: For WI-FI connect to IBMVISITOR network (SSID). Password : Ibmcl4ss Your Visitor User ID will be given at registration.

Accommodation Accommodation has been booked for students at the University of Winchester, Burma Road Student Village, single ensuite including breakfast. The Conference Office website: http://www.winchester.ac.uk/business/conference/accommodation/Pages/Accommodation.aspx The address: The Conference Office University of Winchester Sparkford Road SO22 4NR Telephone: 01962 827322

Meals Breakfast is pre-paid for delegates staying at Winchester University and will be available in the Terrace Bar at 08:00. All lunches are served in the Innovation Theatre foyer. Tuesday, 7th July, there is a BBQ at the Club House at Hursley Park. Monday, 6th July delegates are free to choose where they wish to dine in Winchester and can claim for an evening meal (excluding any alcohol) up to the value of £15:00 per head. Please submit your receipts with a student’s expense form to your institution’s GRADnet administrator and SEPnet will cover this cost.

Directions At 09.30 on Monday, 6th July 2015 Angela Coaches will transport delegates from Winchester Station to IBM Hursley, Galileo Centre Reception. Angela Coaches will transport delegates on Tuesday 7th, and Wednesday 8th July at 08.30 from the University of Winchester, Sparkford Road to IBM. Coach transport will also be provided from IBM to the University of Winchester in the evening on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th July. At the close of the summer school Angela Coaches will transport delegates from IBM to Winchester Station at 17:30. IBM Hursley is approximately 15 minutes by taxi from Winchester Station. Local Taxi Services: Rainbow Cars: +44(0)1264 362221 Barry's of Winchester: +44(0)1962 849629 City Taxis, Winchester: +44(0)1962 841212 Wessex Cars, Winchester: +44(0)1962 877749 Eastleigh Cabs: +44(0)2380 651111 For those travelling by car follow signs to the Galileo Centre Reception. There are car parks in close proximity to this building. Directions and map to Galileo Centre: http://www-05.ibm.com/uk/locations/hursley.html

Useful links: Winchester Station to University of Winchester: http://bit.ly/1Pimicq Winchester Station to IBM Hursley: http://bit.ly/1QILYfq IBM Hursley to University of Winchester: http://bit.ly/1PGcbZY

Delegate List

First Name Surname Current Institution Dominic Carter Queen Mary University of London Ovando Carter Queen Mary University of London Bin Chen Queen Mary University of London Serena Ada Maugeri Queen Mary University of London Manting Qiu Queen Mary University of London Ali Saleh A Alzahrani Queen Mary University of London Wenda Shi Queen Mary University of London Lei Wang Queen Mary University of London Ling Wang Queen Mary University of London Hao Zhang Queen Mary University of London David Bowman Royal Holloway University of London Rodrigo Da Silva Royal Holloway University of London Giovanni Pasquino Royal Holloway University of London Elizabeth Bent St Mary's University Kiz Natt The Open University Nike George University of Hertfordshire Michael Knight University of Kent Maha Rai University of Kent Claire Le Cras University of Portsmouth Xan Morice-Atkinson University of Portsmouth Paul Gow University of Southampton Sam Jones University of Southampton Edwin Lizarazo University of Southampton Hugo Prager University of Southampton Szymon Prajs University of Southampton Joe Spencer University of Southampton Timothy Amaoh University of Surrey Vytautas Astromskas University of Surrey Till Buchacher University of Surrey Bo Li University of Surrey Zena Patel University of Surrey Lauren Petrie University of Surrey Miklos Peuten University of Surrey Niall Fealty University of Sussex Mark Stringer University of Sussex James Waterfield University of Sussex