Early Career Researchers’ Network: Resources
Future events
11.00am – 12.00pm, Monday, 6th September:
Informal Coffee Meeting – Shaping Future Collaboration Amongst ECRs
4.00pm – 5.00pm, Monday, 6th September:
Informal Coffee Meeting – Shaping Future Collaboration Amongst ECRs
Past events
Our events are open to everyone starting their career in research. So far, they have covered topics including impact, public engagement and mental health.
Events are publicised through our Early Career Researchers’ Network – find out more and sign up to our newsletter here.
Early Careers Network Seminar: Applying for Grants… and Top Mistakes
A session on applying for grants (and some of the top mistakes people make when they do), with contributions from Fellows Professor Loredana Polezzi and Professor Reyer Zwigelaar.
Public Engagement Masterclass (2 March 2021)
Professor Jenny Kitzinger (Cardiff University), Professor Nathan Abrams (Bangor University), Professor Lynne Boddy (Cardiff University)
Impact in Principle and in Practice (9 November 2020)
Dr Louise Bright (University of South Wales), Professor Kirsti Bohata (Swansea University), Professor Michael Woods (Aberystwyth University), Professor Isabelle Durance (Cardiff University), Professor Kevin Morgan (Cardiff University)
Network News
- LSW launches new funding opportunities to strengthen research capacity, collaboration and research culture in WalesThe 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 research environment. The schemes reflect the Learned Society of Wales’s commitment to… 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 EisteddfodDr 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 pancreatic cancer’). The competition, organised by the Learned Society… Read more: Dr Luned Badder wins Three Minute Thesis Competition at the National Eisteddfod
- Inspiring mentor receives inaugural Hywel Thomas ECR PrizeDr 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, awarded at the Society’s fourth annual early career researchers (ECR) Colloquium in Aberystwyth, is named after its previous President, who oversaw the setting up of… Read more: Inspiring mentor receives inaugural Hywel Thomas ECR Prize
- LSW Colloquium highlights need for researchers to engage with Wales’ communities and policy prioritiesThe 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 Wales. The Colloquium takes place at Aberystwyth University on 29-30 June and features career development and research culture workshops, a panel discussion on researchers engaging… 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 againThe 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 competition, which is co-organised with Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, challenges early career researchers to explain their research to the public in Welsh and in under three… Read more: ‘Three-minute thesis competition’: Eisteddfod research showcase is back again
