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- New Mobility Scheme: Supporting ECRs to Build Wales-Ireland Research Collaborations
Research collaboration between Wales and Ireland has an important role to play in addressing shared opportunities and challenges, and early career researchers are key to building these connections. To support… Read more: New Mobility Scheme: Supporting ECRs to Build Wales-Ireland Research Collaborations - Research Workshop Grants: Open for Applications until 14 October
Our Research Workshop Grants are open for applications until 4pm on 14 October 2026. The grants are intended to facilitate intellectual and creative interaction and partnership between researchers from different… Read more: Research Workshop Grants: Open for Applications until 14 October - Three grant schemes for researchers: deadlines nearing
Our grant schemes: making Wales a great place to be a researcher Our close work with researchers across Wales’, from universities to industry to the third-sector, means we know how… Read more: Three grant schemes for researchers: deadlines nearing - Watch Back: Building a Welsh Language Research Infrastructure: Access, Confidence, and the Path into Higher Education
On Monday 21 September, the Learned Society of Wales’s Early Career Researchers’ Network hosted a webinar exploring the use of Welsh in higher education and research. With an ambition of… Read more: Watch Back: Building a Welsh Language Research Infrastructure: Access, Confidence, and the Path into Higher Education - Research Workshop Grant Scheme: Access Insight Knowledge Exchange
The power of the right training to help Welsh communities still struggling to recover from post-industrial poverty and deprivation cannot be underestimated. However, letting people know about suitable courses, and… Read more: Research Workshop Grant Scheme: Access Insight Knowledge Exchange - LSW launches new funding opportunities to strengthen research capacity, collaboration and research culture in Wales
The offer of our Researcher Development Programme continues to grow. We are thrilled to launch three funding opportunities designed to support researchers and professionals across Wales in developing collaborations, strengthening… Read more: LSW launches new funding opportunities to strengthen research capacity, collaboration and research culture in Wales - Dr Luned Badder wins Three Minute Thesis Competition at the National Eisteddfod
Dr Luned Badder of Cardiff University has won this year’s Three Minute Thesis Competition, held at the National Eisteddfod in partnership with Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. The title of her presentation… Read more: Dr Luned Badder wins Three Minute Thesis Competition at the National Eisteddfod - Inspiring mentor receives inaugural Hywel Thomas ECR Prize
Dr Caitlyn Donaldson has received the Learned Society of Wales’ inaugural Hywel Thomas Prize, in recognition of her mentorship, community building, and service at institutional and national levels. The prize,… Read more: Inspiring mentor receives inaugural Hywel Thomas ECR Prize - LSW Colloquium highlights need for researchers to engage with Wales’ communities and policy priorities
The LSW’s fourth annual Early Career Researcher’s Colloquium will show why university research is one of the best tools the government has for developing economic growth and social progress in… Read more: LSW Colloquium highlights need for researchers to engage with Wales’ communities and policy priorities - ‘Three-minute thesis competition’: Eisteddfod research showcase is back again
The skill of describing complex research to the general public will again be tested in our popular ‘Three Minute Thesis’ competition at this year’s Eisteddfod in Y Garreg Las. The… Read more: ‘Three-minute thesis competition’: Eisteddfod research showcase is back again
