Volunteer for Graduation Days 2026 on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 June.
Please sign up to support us by filling in the Registration Form before 13 May!
Every volunteer who signs-up and attends their shift will have the chance to enter a prize draw – volunteer for both days and double your chances of winning! Spread the word and tell your colleagues!
STEP‑UP invites applications for 1–3 month funded placements that develop specialist skills in research software, data, and computing infrastructure. Participants will work within a digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) team at Imperial College London, King’s College London, UCL, or the University of Westminster.
STEP-UP – a Strategic TEchnical Platform for University technical Professionals – is a UK-based research project funded under the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)’s 2023 Strategic Technical Platforms call.
What you gain
You can apply if you are:
All placements must occur within a partner‑institution dRTP team.
Funding
STEP‑UP provides up to £15,550, covering 80% of salary and on‑costs, plus eligible fees such as visa or bench costs. (Overheads and indirect costs are excluded.)
If you want to grow your technical capability and collaborate across the London dRTP community, this scheme offers a high‑impact route to do so.
Find out more and apply: https://step-up.ac.uk/placements/
The Great Exhibition Road Festival is back, and we need volunteers like YOU to make it happen! Taking place on 6-7 June 2026, this annual free event includes amazing hands-on activities, workshops and talks & performances, all celebrating science and the arts.
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Volunteer registration closes on 15 May 2026. Please note that this opportunity is open to Imperial staff and students only.
Seeking new members to join Imperial’s Athena Swan SAT – an opportunity for you to help shape Imperial’s gender equality work
Imperial’s Athena Swan Self-Assessment Team (SAT) is responsible for discussing gender equality issues and keeping track of progress on our Action Plan. The SAT helps to represent the different areas and groups across the university and lived experiences. As a member, you would be expected to contribute to discussions and provide a ‘voice’ for the postdoc / fellow community and your department.
Meetings of the SAT take place roughly every month for 90 minutes – usually on Teams. Though we will try to hold perhaps two meetings a year in-person, based on previous feedback from the SAT. We recognise the difficulties of scheduling and availability, and accept that SAT members may not be able to attend every meeting.
Starting this spring / summer, the focus of the SAT will begin to switch to a full self-assessment process to prepare for Imperial’s Athena application in July 2027. Joining the SAT is an opportunity to help influence Imperial’s future gender equality work and action plan. We are planning to create additional sub groups for the SAT, to focus on particular areas (for example culture, career development, etc). We are still thinking about how best these will work, trying to take lessons from last submission and the current work of the Race Equality Charter SAT (submitting this year).
Please contact Robert Bell should you be interested in joining the group
| Scheme | Open date | Close date | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship | 7 January 2026 | 4 March 2026 | July 2026 |
| Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship | 7 January 2026 | 4 March 2026 | July 2026 |
| International Exchanges Global Round 1 | 15 January 2026 | 18 March 2026 | June 2026 |
| JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship | 15 January 2026 | 18 March 2026 | July 2026 |
| Newton International Fellowships | 15 January 2026 | 11 March 2026 | August 2026 |
| Research Grants | 29 January 2026 | 26 March 2026 | July 2026 |
| Industry Fellowships | 4 February 2026 | 1 April 2026 | July 2026 |
| Short Industry Fellowships | 2 April 2026 | 28 May 2026 | July 2026 |
| Kan Tong Po Visiting Fellowships | 9 April 2026 | 4 June 2026 | October 2026 |
| Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship | 6 May 2026 | 1 July 2026 | November 2026 |
| Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship | 6 May 2026 | 1 July 2026 | November 2026 |
| University Research Fellowship | 14 July 2026 | 9 September 2026 | May 2027 |
| Industry Fellowships | 22 July 2026 | 16 September 2026 | March 2027 |
| Short Industry Fellowships | 12 August 2026 | 7 October 2026 | December 2026 |
| Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship | 1 September 2026 | 28 October 2026 | July 2027 |
| Faraday Discovery Fellowships – Stage 1 | August 2026 | September 2026 | November 2026 |
| Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships | September 2026 | November 2026 | April 2027 |
| Career Development Fellowships | 22 September 2026 | 18 November 2026 | June 2027 |
| Faraday Discovery Fellowships – Stage 2 | December 2026 | February 2027 | July 2027 |
10 Downing Street are expanding their ‘Innovation Fellowship Programme’ for technical talent to join government on a short term/secondment basis (6-12 months). They are specifically looking for people who can work as AI engineers, frontend developers and similar areas, a skillset Imperial researchers have!
It’s a really unique opportunity to work at the centre of government on public service transformation and AI adoption across government. Entirely paid for by government and very quick recruitment process (initial phone call to interview in three weeks).
Should you wish to discuss this opportunity with anyone please reach out to Pete Ford, Head of Imperial Policy Forum at p.ford@imperial.ac.uk
Full details and to apply: No10 Innovation Fellowship
Keen to secure professional experience this winter break?
Our new Work and professional experiences webpage is the perfect place to explore all the ways you can get hands-on experience while studying from internships and part time work to shadowing and volunteering
Learn about different types of experiences, how to prepare for work experience, and where you can find opportunities here.
The Imperial CREST Academy helps to match academic mentors to teams of Year 12 students who are undertaking a CREST Gold Project (or an Extended Project Qualification), which can be thought of as a scientific Duke of Edinburgh award, run by the British Science Association. The projects help the students go beyond school curriculum and get a small taste of scientific research. It is also hugely helpful for the students when applying to university as it helps with their personal statements and also gives them more breadth of knowledge and understanding should they be interviewed for a place at University.
The CREST Academy is run by Prof Cecilia Johansson (National Heart and Lung Institute) and myself, Simon Foster (FoNS & Imperial Space Lab). The Academy has been running for 13 years and has helped hundreds (possibly now thousands) of students undertake a CREST project and have gained a vital glimpse into the world of scientific research and academia.
The role of the mentor is to guide the project, initially helping to shape the project into something that can be conducted by the students in 70 hours (the rough allotted time for the project) and to give general scientific guidance. This is usually quite light touch and involves 2-3 meetings (in person or virtually) along with occasional emails. You will not be required to ensure the students are working on the projects or ‘push’ them, along, as this is the responsibility of their teacher. I have mentored a number of projects over the years and always found them immensely satisfying and they have had a huge impact upon the students. Based up my experiences, the time commitment is approximately 3-5 hours over the academic year (20 – 30 mins per online meeting and reading and responding to occasional emails).
If this might be of interest we will be holding an introduction an online Teams meeting on Friday 24th October at 11am top take you through the scheme: This link will take you to the meeting Join the meeting now and if you email me, I can add you to the meeting invite. A recording of a previous intro meeting can be found here: CREST chat-20221104_113001-Meeting Recording.mp4
You can also look at the projects interested and submit your interest in mentoring a project here https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cz4YjDGrPemOlo
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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.