Awards - Special Features
National Networking Opportunities
As well as supporting newcomers to ageing research through awards, SPARC will organise workshops and other networking activities which will be of direct benefit to award holders. These will provide a national platform for the presentation of work in progress and completed, and will place the award holders alongside those researchers who are leading authorities, for example pursuing major national and international projects funded by research councils and other organisations, as well as leading practitioners and other key actors in the field of ageing and ageing research. Award holders will be expected to attend at least two of the SPARC workshops and to present their work at one of these. Experience gained with the EQUAL Research Network suggests that much prestige will be attached to involvement with these workshops as well as there being excellent opportunities for networking.
Publication Support
Award holders will also benefit from assistance in publication and dissemination of their work. SPARC will organise the editing and publication of a series of Executive Summaries of all of the projects it supports. This will lead to a uniquely accessible and appealing compilation of research across a wide range of topics which SPARC is committed to promoting to science policy makers, practitioners and the research community. Findings will also be reported at SPARC workshops and through the SPARC web site.
Mentors
Also, if requested and appropriate, mentors will be appointed. These will be individuals who can adopt a broad view of the research work to be carried out and how it relates to the needs of older people, thus helping to place the research in an appropriate context.
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