Author: Early Career Researcher Institute

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Early Career Researcher Showcase (02 July 2025)

This inaugural event is a celebration of the research being carried out by the ECR community at Imperial College London.

It is ECRI’s mission to empower ECRs to raise their impact both within research and beyond. We aim to foster cross-disciplinary connections and would like to invite you to join us as our participants showcase their research to the wider community through bitesize presentations.

The open exhibition session takes place from 11:00-13:00 and a list of entrants and their research summaries can be found on the event webpage.

We are also delighted to be joined by Jack Leeming, Senior Careers Editor, Nature who will be delivering the keynote speech ‘Communicating about Science and the Scientific Enterprise for Nature‘ from 14:30-15:30.

The keynote speech, will be followed by the prize ceremony for the winners of the ECR Showcase competition. All attendees are then welcome to join us for networking drinks reception.

Timetable of Events

  • 11:00 – 13:00 – Judging Session & Open Exhibition [REGISTER for an Exhibition Ticket]
  • 14:30 – 15:30 – Keynote Speech & Prize Ceremony [REGISTER for an Audience Ticket]
  • 15:30 – 16:30 – Drinks Reception & Networking

Find out more & Register

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Communicating about Science and the Scientific Enterprise for Nature (02 July 2025)

Join us for the Early Career Researcher Showcase Keynote Speech with Jack Leeming, Senior Careers Editor, Nature* who will be delivering his talk ‘Communicating about Science and the Scientific Enterprise for Nature’

The keynote speech, will be followed by the prize ceremony for the winners of the ECR Showcase competition. All attendees are then welcome to join us for networking drinks and nibbles in the Sir Alexander Fleming Building Foyer.

*Jack Leeming is an editor for Nature’s careers section, which focuses on the issues faced by working scientists around the world. He also runs Nature’s award-winning photographic ‘Where I work’ section, which profiles a different researcher every week.

Find out more & register

Website support needed at the Grantham Institute (apply by 27 June)

The Education team at the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment is looking for a postgraduate student to help us refresh and condense our web pages, at 1-2 hours weekly for 6-8 weeks. This will involve simplifying the structure, editing content and some creation of new content (with guidance from the Education team). This role will be paid at £24.51 per hour via the casual worker system.

Please email Alex Gibbs if you are interested, explaining your experience with websites and digital comms, by Friday 27 June.

 

GTA Opportunity – Paid LaTeX development opportunity

The Research Computing and Data Science team are in the process of commissioning and collating a series of exemplar programming projects known as ReCoDE. These projects are designed to demonstrate good programming practice in research to help other students learn by example and include extensive annotation to explain their function and the design choices made.

We generally welcome any submission, but we are looking to commission a particular submission in the form of a LaTeX template for an Imperial doctoral thesis. This template should match all of Imperial’s thesis requirements and should not be overly complicated, such that a relatively inexperienced LaTeX user would have the background to understand it. The basic skeleton of the thesis and the formatting required to meet Imperial’s requirements should be the focus, but other useful pieces of LaTeX may also be demonstrated.  This template does not need extensive research content, but could include some if it helps to demonstrate the formatting tools used.

If you are interested in working on this exemplar, more information on contributing can be found here. Click on the “Pitch an exemplar here” button at the bottom of that page to submit a proposal. The next round of exemplars will be selected in the autumn, and we will review all proposals before reaching out to selected applicants to complete the exemplar over three months in the autumn term.

Authors of exemplar are paid as GTAs (or Casual Workers) for 45 hours of work at a rate of £35.78/hour, including holiday pay.

UKRI Policy Internships scheme – call for applicants (deadline: 08 Sept 2025)

As part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s postgraduate training portfolio, the UKRI Policy Internships scheme provides an opportunity for UKRI-funded doctoral students to undertake a three-month placement at one of a selected group of influential policy organisations.

Funding opportunity closing date: 08 September 2025

Find out more & apply

Survey – Postdoc experience and career progression (deadline: 01 July 2025)

This is a survey for a subject in the Postgraduate Programme in Higher Education of the University of Manchester, to identify tools and resources available for postdoctoral STEM researchers and their career progression within UK universities. Your survey is completely anonymous and the data will be only used to elaborate the report.

Take the survey

Opportunities for PhDs/Postdocs (Quant research roles)

Options Group is hiring in for an important hedge fund client who manage >$10bn in aum.  The client is looking to speak with entry level PhDs or Postdocs focusing on Machine Learning/AI, Math, Stats, Physics, Computer Science for various quant research roles based in London.  Additionally, about the client’s search:

They are looking for exceptional generalists—either applied researchers or theorists with some coding experience. Historically, statisticians have been the most common hires, but last year they hired more pure math candidates than any other background. They’ve also brought on people with publications in machine learning journals and active GitHub profiles. Their hires include computer scientists, including those focused on theoretical CS. One of their Partners in London, for example, comes from a theoretical physics background..

Interested parties can contact Keith Macksoud (Options Group, Executive Director) immediately with a CV.

Summer Term Day and Evening Classes: Arts, Humanities & Languages

Join us in South Kensington this summer on one of our exciting day and evening classes in the arts, humanities and languages.

From Introductory French to Beginners Watercolours and British Sign Language to Discovering Art Therapy, we have a wide range of courses designed to educate, inform and entertain.

No previous experience is needed in any subject, so whether you fancy taking up printmaking as a hobby, starting that novel you know you have inside you, or you’ve always wanted to know the secrets of modern art, you’ll find a course here for you.

Enrolling now – for full details visit http://www.imperial.ac.uk/adult-ed

Establishing the Imperial IBD Research Community – Join Us!

Are you a researcher, engineer, or clinician working on or interested in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research? If you’re based at Imperial, Imperial NHS, or St Mark’s Hospital, we’re building an IBD research community to foster collaborations, support grant applications, and facilitate knowledge sharing and translation across all departments, career stages, and backgrounds.

Please take a moment to help us map this network by completing this short form: Join the IBD Research Community.

Save the Date for Our First Networking Event

📅 When: 24th April, 16:00
📍 Where: Hammersmith Campus

Let us know if you’ll be attending by filling out the form by 21st February, so we can secure the right venue size.

Join the new Viva Engage channel: Measuring Visibility and Impact

Join the new Viva Engage channel: Measuring Visibility and Impact

Scholarly Communications Management team has created a new Viva Engage community channel, Measuring Visibility and Impact to share insights and updates and invite discussion and collaboration on the various tools that imperial subscribes to. Tips and guidance on responsible use of metrics will also be shared.

Imperial subscribes to a number of powerful tools (e.g. Altmetric for tracking mentions of research publications on social media and news and Overton for monitoring citations on policy documents), but many staff and students are either unaware of these sources or unsure how to use them effectively. Through the Measuring Visibility and Impact channel, we aim to bridge this gap by advertising the tools, sharing updates about them, interesting case studies and organising training sessions to equip you to work with them.

The research analytics products allow you to:

  • track academic and societal impact of research publications, not only journal articles but other types of outputs such as reports, theses or preprints,
  • move away from journal-based metrics and h-index,
  • better communicate research results and increase visibility,
  • help you prepare job applications, narrative CVs, grant applications and REF submissions,
  • understand the latest research trends and key research areas in different disciplines,
  • monitor research performance of research groups, departments, faculties or institutions.

The community channel will support Imperial’s commitment to the responsible use of metrics by promoting best practice, fostering awareness, and keeping you updated about initiatives and opportunities. The channel will serve the ultimate objective of building a healthy research culture at Imperial by helping us break out of the dysfunctional culture of publish-or-perish.

Please join the Measuring Visibility and Impact community channel on Viva Engage and share this message with your contacts who might be interested.