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 Arrival

19:00 Welcome Drinks & Dinner

Tuesday, 17 February

1 Welcome & Introductions

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

2 Learning Styles

3 Ideal Researcher

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

4 Paired Reflection & Coaching

10:45 Coffee

5 Challenge Activity

More details to follow

6 Team Process Model

Group Activity

7 Understanding Self Within a Team

12:45 Lunch

8 Theories of Teams

9 Values

15:00 Coffee

10 Game Theory

11 Case Study for Overnight

Introduction a d group work until 17:15

12 Understanding Self Within the Team

18:30 Dinner

13 Group Project Work

Wednesday, 18 February

14 Introduction to the day

15 Communication Case Study

16 Plenary Review

17 Project Management Tune-In

11:15 Coffee

18 Group Project Time

12:30 Lunch

19 Collabortive Task

20 Group Project Time

21 Final Presentations of Group Project

22 Final Words

23 Close

Welcome Drinks

Served in Barons Bar

19:30 Conference Dinner

Served in Barons Hall

Thursday, 19 February

24 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

25 Planning a Production

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

26 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 Coffee

27 Pitching Proposals

Facilitated by Stephen Wilkinson, Jim Franks and Nigel Glover

28 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 Lunch

29 Shooting the 3' Movie

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

30 Editing the Movie

31 The Screening

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

32 WRAP

18:30 Dinner

Friday, 20 February

10:00 Departure