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Getting on board with REF requirements: games for early career researchers
The document discusses the use of games and gamification in the context of early career researchers, highlighting the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF) as a tool for mapping relevant activities. It emphasizes the benefits of incorporating games into research training, such as enhancing memory retention and promoting collaboration among researchers. Additionally, it identifies gaps in the RDF where games could be further developed to enrich researcher training.
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- 1. Getting on boardwith REFGetting on board with REF requirements:requirements: games for early careergames for early career researchersresearchers Alison McNab University of Huddersfield @alisonmcnab / @hudlib
- 2. Outline ￮ Introduction ￮ Overviewof research games, gamification and the Vitae Researcher Development Framework (RDF) ￮ Mapping games to the RDF ￮ Mind the (RDF) gaps! ￮ Feedback from group work ￮ Conclusion / action planning 2
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- 5. Why play gamesin HE? ￮ Research involves play ￮ An active learning technique ￮ Provides a range of sensory stimulation to aid memory formation ￮ Offers a break from screens! ￮ An opportunity to bring researchers together ￮ Do you need to give “permission to 5
- 6. Research games See: http ://bit.ly/ResearchGames ￮TheGame of Open Access ￮The Impact Game ￮Open Access Escape Room ￮The Publishing Trap 6
- 7. Mapping games tothe RDF ￮ Use the Factsheets map the games to the RDF ￮ How might you incorporate these games in lesson planning at your workplace? 7
- 8. Mind the (RDF)gaps! ￮ Which RDF sub-domains don’t have games or activities mapped to them? ￮ Does your service offer existing activities / training which might fill the gaps? ￮ Is there a research game that you might develop? 8
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- 10. Further reading ￮ Sundsbø,K. (2019). Open Access Escape Room: the key to OA engagement?. Insights, 32(1), 8. ￮ Vitae Vitae Researcher Development Framework ￮ Walsh, A. (2018) Giving permission to play in Higher Education. In: 4th International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, pp. 329-336. ￮ Walsh, A. (2018). The librarians' book on teaching through games and play. Tallinn, Harju Maakond: Innovative Libraries. ￮ Walsh, Andrew (2015) Playful Information Literacy: play and information literacy in Higher Education. Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education, 7 (1). pp. 80-94. ￮ Whitton, N. and Moseley, A. (2019), Playful Learning: events and activities to engage adults, London: Routledge 10
- 11. 11 Thanks! Any questions? You canfind me at ￮@AlisonMcNab ￮A.McNab@hud.ac.uk ￮http://bit.ly/Research Games Photo credits: Alison McNab, Chris Morrison & Jane Secker, Laura Palmer, Georgina Parsons and Katrine Sundsbø
- 12. 12 Game of OpenAccess The Impact Game Open Access Escape Room The Publishing Trap