Race Equality Staff Survey – live until 7 December 2025

24 November 2025

The REC Staff Survey is now live until 7 December via this link.

The survey is anonymous, consists of 30 multiple choice questions along with the option to give your comments and suggestions on what Imperial can do to help support colleagues from Minority Ethnic Backgrounds. It should take up to 10 minutes to complete, and all questions are optional.

More information on how your data will be used and why it is being collected is available on the REC Staff Survey webpage. The page also illustrates some of the actions that were taken from the last REC Staff Survey in 2019 and how this year’s results will be reported.

All staff are encouraged to complete the survey so that Imperial can create a complete picture of how ethnicity impacts career development, wellbeing and sense of belonging.

New Doctoral Theses: access and alerts

17 November 2025

Looking for Imperial theses? Explore and download theses via the Library’s guide:

Stay updated with Spiral

Imperial users can subscribe to collections (e.g., departmental PhD theses) and receive daily, weekly, or monthly digests of newly added items.
Log in with College credentials to subscribe.
External users can follow updates via RSS for the same collections.

How to subscribe (Imperial users)

Go to Spiral: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk
Open the collection you want to follow (e.g., “Physics PhD theses”).
Click “Subscribe” and choose your preferred frequency.
Manage your preferences here: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/subscriptions

New to Imperial? Tell us what you think in our Welcome Experience Survey

14 November 2025

Take the opportunity to voice your opinions and help shape the future of our Welcome season. Share your thoughts in our Welcome Experience Survey by 15 December. Your input is invaluable, and together, we can enhance the start of every student’s Imperial experience. 

Previous feedback led to positive improvements. From transforming the Sherfield Building into a vibrant hub for learning, support, and community, to launching the My Imperial Campus App for a more personalised digital experience, your feedback is driving real change. We also revamped the Welcome Fair, making it bigger, more accessible, and easier to explore, with over 11,000 students getting involved.

Whether it’s creating inspiring spaces, smarter tools, or more inclusive events, your voice is helping us build a campus that works better for everyone.   

You can find the survey link in the email you will have received on Friday 14 November or by visiting the website directly.

PhD students: present your work at the next Animal Research Forum (register interest by 01 Dec)

14 November 2025

The Imperial 3RsHubis looking for PhD Students that want to present their work at the yearly Animal Research Forum, on the 29^th January 2026.

We are interested in showcasing both entire projects or part of of projects where any of the 3Rs (reduction, replacment and refinment of the animals used in research) was applied. We are particularly interested in PhD students who are not working with animal models but whose projects have a direct replacement impact.

The Forum is an opportunity to highlight your project’s 3Rs impact, gain recognition from your peers, network with experts from all Imperial departments and be selected for the Best Poster Award. You can find examples of last year’s posters on the 3RsHub website.

Please register your interest by December 1st 2025 by emailing a.napolitano@imperial.ac.uk.

Introducing dAIsy – Imperial’s New GenAI workspace

13 November 2025

dAIsy is Imperial’s new Generative AI platform, designed to give you safe, easy access to multiple AI models (such as GPT, Claude, Deepseek, and others) through a single interface.

dAIsy is built to support teaching, learning, and research while ensuring data protection and institutional compliance.

Why use dAIsy?

Private and secure – your data stays protected. All your prompts and chat history are stored securely in Imperial’s cloud.
Build your own agents – You can define instructions or behaviours suited to your specific needs.
Advanced developer role available on request – if you want to go deeper.

Imperial offers licensed AI models to promote equitable access and, alongside Microsoft Copilot, dAIsy supports our commitment to harnessing AI’s transformative potential responsibly and effectively.

Further support

You can find Imperial’s GenAI guidance, policies and resources on the Generative AI & Education Guidance Hub.
Want to know more about dAIsy? Join the GenAI Futurists at GenAI Shorts on Thursday 20 November, 10.00-10.30.
Contact the ICT Service Desk if you have any issues with dAIsy.

Imperial Lates: open call for researchers

21 August 2025

Imperial Lates are a series of free, after hours, adults-only events. They provide Imperial researchers with a fantastic opportunity to engage with members of the public in an exciting, informal environment.

All submissions are welcome, from initial ideas to fully developed activities. The Imperial Lates programming team can help to develop an idea further, discuss opportunities to host a talk or take part in a panel discussion, or connect researchers with a creative practitioner to explore their ideas through an artistic workshop.

This season’s themes are:

October: Light

Join our researchers in welcoming the autumn and celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Light. Learn all about how light works, as well as it’s uses in health research and even in space!

November: Time

Explore the nature of time at November’s Imperial Lates. Deep dive into the very first second of the universe, catch up with the fastest object ever built, or dance inside a quantum clock.

January: Wellbeing

New year, new you! Start 2026 afresh by learning the scientific secrets to hacking your health and wellbeing from Imperial researchers in our January Lates.

Click here to find out more and to fill out the open call form

If you have any questions, please email lates@imperial.ac.uk

Help to shape the Student Counselling and Mental Health Advice Service

14 July 2025

College News & Updates

Give your views on the workshops, groups, and courses currently on offer from the Student Counselling Mental Health Advice Service. Your feedback will help to ensure services are relevant, inclusive, and accessible to all students.

The team are especially interested in hearing from those of you who have not yet attended any sessions.

Complete the two-minute survey

Establishing the Imperial IBD Research Community – Join Us!

13 February 2025

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

13 February 2025

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.