HiggsTools First Young Researchers Meeting

16 Feb 2015, 18:00 → 20 Feb 2015, 13:00 Europe/London

Lumley Castle

Nigel Glover (IPPP, Durham University)

Collaborative Teamwork and Communication “Coming together is a start. Staying together is progress. Working together is success.” Henry Ford Within a modern academic environment, collaboration is essential. HiggsTools provides an incredible opportunity for a diverse team to come together, share research practice – whether theoretical or experimental - and add real value to all parties. The programme for the first two days will focus on building a high performance network team that can collaborate and communicate in an effective manner. This specially-designed programme has been constructed around practical activities, exercises and conversations to help each of you to gain more from the Higgstools team. The third day will feature focus on media training that has some discussion but is mostly hands on with cameras and simple editing.

Poster LumleyPoster.pdf

Monday, 16 February

18:00 → 19:00 Arrival

19:00 → 22:00 Welcome Drinks & Dinner

Tuesday, 17 February

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome & Introductions

Day 1 and Day 2 will be facilitated by Mr Stephen Hutchinson

09:15 → 09:45 Learning Styles

09:45 → 10:30 Ideal Researcher

Participants in groups of 5 produce a poster of an ideal collaborative researcher

10:30 → 10:45 Paired Reflection & Coaching

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:00 Challenge Activity

More details to follow

12:00 → 12:25 Team Process Model

Group Activity

12:25 → 12:45 Understanding Self Within a Team

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:00 Theories of Teams

14:00 → 15:00 Values

15:00 → 15:15 Coffee

15:15 → 16:15 Game Theory

16:15 → 17:15 Case Study for Overnight

Introduction a d group work until 17:15

17:15 → 17:30 Understanding Self Within the Team

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

20:30 → 23:30 Group Project Work

Wednesday, 18 February

09:00 → 09:15 Introduction to the day

09:15 → 10:15 Communication Case Study

10:15 → 10:30 Plenary Review

10:30 → 11:15 Project Management Tune-In

11:15 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Group Project Time

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Collabortive Task

14:30 → 15:30 Group Project Time

15:30 → 16:15 Final Presentations of Group Project

16:15 → 16:30 Final Words

16:30 → 16:45 Close

19:00 → 19:30 Welcome Drinks

Served in Barons Bar

19:30 → 21:30 Conference Dinner

Served in Barons Hall

Thursday, 19 February

09:30 → 09:45 Introduction

Day 3 will be lead by Stephen Wilkinson (Producer/Director) and Jim Franks (Trainer/Cameraman/Editor) from Brook Lapping. He will introduce the opportunities for the development of media materials to supporting the project with both internal communication and outreach

09:45 → 10:15 Planning a Production

The project plan that takes an idea from conception to the screen

10:15 → 11:00 The Idea

Brainstorming ideas that will form the basis of the hands-on productions in the afternoon session. How to produce a 3 min shooting script. This will also involve group work.

11:00 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 11:30 Pitching Proposals

Facilitated by Stephen Wilkinson, Jim Franks and Nigel Glover

11:30 → 12:30 Introduction to Camera & Sound

Explanation of how to capture pictures and sound. The ESRs will be shown techniques to improve "self generated" content and tips on how to achieve near broadcast quality sequences.

12:30 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 Shooting the 3' Movie

The ESR groups with share responsibility across the five key tasks; director, cameraperson, sound, editor, writer/commentary.

14:00 → 16:00 Editing the Movie

16:00 → 17:00 The Screening

The final films to be shown to the whole group, with Q&A including both peers and trainers.

17:00 → 17:30 WRAP

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Friday, 20 February

10:00 → 11:00 Departure