Category: External Conferences & Events

Postgraduate Pedagogies Symposium (01 July 2026)

The Postgraduate Pedagogies Symposium is a one-day event taking place on 1 July 2026 hosted hybrid at LSE, aimed at new and continuing Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) with an interest in postgraduate pedagogies and teaching practice.

The symposium will feature a keynote presentation, a themed panel, and author presentations. Its main aims are to create a space for sharing practice, reflection, and research on postgraduate pedagogies, to connect GTAs with colleagues involved in pedagogical development, and to encourage cross-institutional dialogue. We will also be launching Volume 6 of Postgraduate Pedagogies during the symposium, and we warmly welcome attendees to join us for this special occasion.

If you are interested in attending or presenting your work, please register here to join us! More information regarding symposium themes and proposal guidelines can be found at the registration link.

FameLab Science Communication London Final (16 Apr 2026)

Experience the excitement of the London FameLab Final! Enjoy engaging science talks as contestants compete for a place in the UK Final.

FameLab is the world’s largest science communication competition, designed to find and support the next generation of science leaders. Contestants have just three minutes to explain a scientific, engineering, mathematical, or social science concept in an engaging and accessible way—without PowerPoint or notes.

Expect a night of entertaining, thought-provoking, and inspiring science talks and have your say voting for your favourite science communicator.

🎤 Compere:
The event will be hosted by Fran Scott. A scientist by training and an engineer at heart, Fran Scott uses her knowledge as a science communication consultant to entertain and excite audiences, using high-impact demonstrations to prove her scientific point.

🔬 Our expert judging panel:

  • Robin Ince – Comedian, author and broadcaster
  • Suze Kundu – Nanochemist, Science Communicator, and Research Community Engagement Consultant for the NASA-funded Science Explorer (SciX) platform
  • Catherine Loveday – Professor of Neurophysiology at the University of Westminster

Tickets:
🎟 Free, but registration is required.Join us for the London FameLab Final 2026, where the finalists will battle it out for a place in the UK FameLab Final at Cheltenham Science Festival.

Thursday, Apr 16 from 6:30 pm to 9 pm, Regent Street Cinema, London

FameLab poster 2026

Tickets available here: London FameLab Final 2026 Tickets, Thursday, Apr 16 from 6:30 pm to 9 pm | Eventbrite

WE Innovate National Growth & Connections Summit: Women Founders (23 Apr 2026)

We are delighted to invite you to the WE Innovate National Growth & Connections Summit, a national gathering of founders, universities, investors, and ecosystem leaders committed to accelerating women‑led innovation across the UK.

Now in its 12th year at Imperial College London, WE Innovate has become one of the UK’s most established and impactful programmes supporting early‑stage, high‑growth women‑led ventures. Through WE Innovate National, that impact is scaling nationwide—now delivered at Swansea University, Loughborough University, and Queen’s University Belfast, with Durham University and the University of Glasgow joining next year.

Event Details

🗓 Date:
Thursday, 23 April 2026

📍 Venue:
Refinery at ARC West London
Manbre Road
London W6 9RH

🕑 Time:
2:00 PM – Arrival

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM – Panel Discussion

Innovation Without Limits: Women Founders Driving High‑Growth Ventures

Join WE Innovate National founders, investors, and innovation leaders as they explore emerging models of high‑growth innovation, the routes women founders take to scale, and the systemic shifts needed to unlock their full potential.

Panellists include:

  • Priya Guha MBE— Tech and innovation leader; former British Consul General in San Francisco; board member and advisor across UK innovation and investment.
  • Sam Cooper Gray— Chair of The Gender Index; board member and Committee Chair for the UK Government’s Invest in Women Taskforce.
  • Rachel Small— Co‑founder of INNOVAscope, a pioneering endoscopy simulation venture informed by her 20‑year clinical career in critical care nursing; Queens University Belfast WE Innovate National Top Three Finalist.
  • Dr Chiara Board— Founder & CEO of P.Happi, creating innovative microbiome solutions for women’s health; PhD in Synthetic Biology & Bioengineering, Imperial College London.

🕞 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM – Networking Reception with food and drinks
Connect with founders, university partners, investors, and industry leaders at an informal reception designed to spark collaboration and new ideas.

Registration (Invite Only)

Capacity is limited. Places will be allocated on a first‑come, first‑served basis, with a waitlist once full.

👉 Please RSVP using the private Eventbrite link here.

We hope you can join us.

Message Passing programming with MPI (22 & 23 April & 01 May 2026)

Wednesday 22nd – Thursday 23rd Apil 10:00 – 17:00 (In Person); Friday 1st May 10:00 – 12:30 (online)

The world’s largest supercomputers are used almost exclusively to run applications which are parallelised using Message Passing. The course covers all the basic knowledge required to write parallel programs using this programming model, and is directly applicable to almost every parallel computer architecture.

Parallel programming by definition involves co-operation between processors to solve a common task. The programmer has to define the tasks that will be executed by the processors, and also how these tasks are to synchronise and exchange data with one another. In the message-passing model the tasks are separate processes that communicate and synchronise by explicitly sending each other messages. All these parallel operations are performed via calls to some message-passing interface that is entirely responsible for interfacing with the physical communication network linking the actual processors together. This course uses the de facto standard for message passing, the Message Passing Interface (MPI). It covers point-to-point communication, non-blocking operations, derived datatypes, virtual topologies, collective communication and general design issues.

The course is delivered in an intensive two-day face-to-face format, followed by a half-day online follow up session. It is taught using a variety of methods including formal lectures, practical exercises, programming examples and informal tutorial discussions. This enables lecture material to be supported by the tutored practical sessions in order to reinforce the key concepts.

This course is free to all UK based academics.

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4th London Infection Network for ECRs (LINE) Symposium (Apply by 10 May)

Event: 4th London Infection Network for ECRs (LINE) Symposium

Date: 22nd June 2026

Location: Francis Crick Institute

This free, one-day event features ECR research focussing on infection biology, invited speakers (Prof. Meera Unnikrishnan and Prof. Jonathan Maelfait), a career panel, and patient impact insights. Funding for travel and care is available, please submit your abstracts and register!

Details, Abstract submission and Registration: https://londoninfection.wixsite.com/home/line-symposium

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Call for STEM Principal Investigators: Improving Postdoc Recruitment – Residential Session

📢 Calling all UK-based STEM Principal Investigators
Would you like to improve postdoc recruitment and explore the impact of AI with other PIs across UK Universities?

We’re now hosting an in-person, two-day Practice Studio in Cambridge on 29th and 30th June 2026, where we’ll work with Principal Investigators to explore two key questions:

⭐ How can the UKRI Narrative CV be improved for postdoc recruitment?

⭐ What impact could AI have in reducing the time needed to longlist Early Career Research candidates?

The Practice Studio will build on the results that the ARRC Team have produced from the 3-year randomised controlled trial at the University of Cambridge, examining the use of Narrative CVs in STEM postdoc recruitment. The results show mixed Principal Investigator views, suggesting a need for more effective recruitment approaches.

The Outputs from the Practice Studio will inform a Policy Brief aimed at improving Early Career Researcher recruitment.

🧳 We will cover your travel, accommodation, and subsistence and you will enjoy a dinner at one of the Cambridge Colleges!

👉 If you are interested, please sign up now by completing the Expression of Interest form here https://lnkd.in/eX3s7mtp

British Federation of Women Graduates Research Presentations Day (apply by 28 Match)

The Research Presentations Day is when BFWG invites doctoral students to present their research to a general, i.e. not subject specialist, audience.

  • Are you a woman doctoral student?
  • Do you have research you would like to present to a discerning audience – and have the chance of winning a small prize of £150 for the best presentation?
  • Or would you like to join with us, just to meet and listen to other postgraduate women students presenting their research?

Our Research Presentations Day (RPD) offers these opportunities. Past attendees, both presenters and audience, have found the Day thoroughly enjoyable and helpful in developing presentation skills.

The day will also involve an introduction to the 2025 BFWG Scholarship Fund Academic Award winners.

If you think you would like to submit an abstract, please look at BFWG webpages www.bfwg.org.uk or contact rpd@bfwg.org.uk for further details. Closing date for applications: 28th March 2026, 9am.

All – students, academics, anyone else interested (not just women!) – are welcome to attend as audience. Lunch is included and there is a door charge of £10 but no charge for bona fide students whether attending as presenters or as audience.  Please notify rpd@bfwg.org.uk by 7th May 2026 if attending.

NetDRIVE Summer Schools

Two fully-funded NetDRIVE summer schools for PhD students, focused around Net-Zero and responsible research when using Digital Research Infrastructure. These will be during the summer of 2026, and spring of 2027.

If you would like to be notified when the application form goes live, please enter your details here.

To apply for a place on the 2026 summer school, please use this form

More details at https://durham.readthedocs.io/en/latest/netdrive/index.html.