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New Mobility Scheme: Supporting ECRs to Build Wales-Ireland Research Collaborations

14 October, 2026

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 this, the Wales-Ireland Early Career Researcher (ECR) Mobility Scheme provides new opportunities for researche... Read More

Research Workshop Grants: Open for Applications until 14 October

9 October, 2026

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 disciplines and a range of institutions, across the academic community and the public, private and third se... Read More

Three grant schemes for researchers: deadlines nearing

8 October, 2026

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 important, and difficult, it is to find that little bit of money needed to set up a research network or run a collaborative workshop. ... Read More

Watch Back: Building a Welsh Language Research Infrastructure: Access, Confidence, and the Path into Higher Education

7 October, 2026

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 reaching one million Welsh speakers by 2050, and growing numbers of young people coming through Welsh-medium education, the sess... Read More

Research Workshop Grant Scheme: Access Insight Knowledge Exchange

2 October, 2026

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 then retaining them as students, is an enduring challenge. The expertise of teaching staff working in ... Read More

Research Culture Network Grants strengthening research communities across Wales

29 September, 2026

Medr and the Learned Society of Wales (LSW) have collectively launched the second year of the Research Culture Network Grants (RCNG) scheme, which supports researchers, research professionals and research communities to work together to address challenges and strengthen research culture across Wales. Recognising th... Read More

“Beginner’s guide” launched to help at-risk scholars navigate UK academia

17 September, 2026

New comprehensive resource to reduce barriers for scholars rebuilding their careers and professional networks in a new academic system. The UK Young Academy has launched a new guide for academics who have recently arrived in the UK to help them continue their careers. Many at-risk scholars arrive in the UK with ... Read More

Learned Society of Wales supports Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Strategic Plan 2026–31

17 September, 2026

The Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the Learned Society of Wales have been working together for years on supporting scholarship in the Welsh language across all areas of study, from our joint annual lecture, to our Three Minute Thesis competition for Early-Career Researchers. Together these two organisations are cor... Read More

LSW launches new funding opportunities to strengthen research capacity, collaboration and research culture in Wales

9 September, 2026

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 research culture, and building the connections and capacity needed to support a thriving ... Read More

Dr Luned Badder wins Three Minute Thesis Competition at the National Eisteddfod

12 August, 2026

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 was ‘Hyfforddi feirysau i gludo cemotherapi i ganser y pancreas’ (‘Training viruses to carry chemotherapy to pan... Read More

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