Category: Miscellaneous

Take part in the UK Reproducibility Network’s Open Research Survey!

Dear colleagues

I am Imperial College London’s Local Network Lead (LNL) for the UK Reproducibility Network, and I would like to invite you to complete a short survey to identify current awareness and use of Open Research practices. This will take less than 5 minutes.

This survey is being conducted along with LNLs across the country to identify areas for initiatives and training across UK institutions. To take part, you can be a researcher in any discipline or career stage, including academic staff, research staff and doctoral students. We would like to hear from any researcher, even if you are completely unaware of Open Research/Open Science – this is intended to help us identify where there are gaps in knowledge.

Click here to take part in the survey

The study has received approval from the Brunel Research Ethics Office (30088-A-Jan/2025- 53666-1), and all responses will be anonymous and confidential.

Thank you in advance for taking part.

To discuss how you can embed Open Research into your research in a meaningful way – to address challenges like the reproducibility crisis, publication bias, research waste and publish-or-perish culture – get in touch with me via the details in my signature.

Best wishes

Hamid

Dr Hamid Khan

Open Research Manager, Imperial College London

Local Network Lead, UK Reproducibility Network

 

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Imperial College London

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Call for Participants: PhD research on intersectionality of neurodivergence and gender in teamworking environments

My PhD research explores the intersectionality of neurodivergence and gender in teamworking environments, focusing on research teams within UK academia. I am currently looking for people interested to participate in my main study. This involves a semi-structured interview of approx. 60 minutes and a short pre-interview questionnaire. All gender identities are welcome, this research is trans and non-binary inclusive and values diverse perspectives and experiences. You do not need to have disclosed your neurodivergence to anyone in your team.

Criteria to participate:

  1. You work in an academic research team in the UK
  2. AND you identify as neurodivergent (incl. autism, ADHD, Tourette’s Syndrome, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia). Medical and self-diagnosis welcome.

How do you benefit from participating?

  • you take an active role in knowledge building on neurodivergence and gender
  • you contribute to identifying ways to make research more inclusive
  • it is an opportunity to openly talk about your experiences, good and bad, in an anonymised way!

How to take part:

If you are interested in participating, are not sure if you meet the criteria, or would like to find out more, please get in touch with me via email: L.Biermann@hw.ac.uk

Help shape Imperial’s Research Commercialisation Services

The world-changing research generated by our academic research community is central to Imperial’s mission and impact. Imperial Enterprise supports the translation of this work through intellectual property protection, research commercialisation, industry partnerships, consultancy and spinout formation.

To ensure our services meet the needs of a world-leading university, we invite you to share your views through this short (10 minutes) survey.

Complete the survey

Your feedback will help us understand what works well, identify barriers to engagement, and improve the support we provide for all enterprising activities. Though the survey can be completed anonymously, participants can choose to enter a prize draw to win one of three £50 shopping vouchers.

Please contact Dr Emma Toumi, Associate Director of Intellectual Property Strategy, with any questions.

Help Shape the Future of Research – Volunteer with In2research

In2research, developed by In2scienceUK and UCL, is a year-long programme supporting people from low socioeconomic backgrounds to access postgraduate research.

Academics and researchers from any STEM discipline across the UK are invited to mentor participants and/or host an 8-week research placement as part of the 2025/26 In2research programme.

Apply here: https://in2scienceuk.org/volunteers-in2research/

Staff and student volunteers wanted for Artificial intelligence ECG research!

Staff and student volunteers wanted for Artificial intelligence ECG research!

We are looking for volunteers to take part in a study looking at how AI can predict a
person’s BMI, age, and sex using ECG data from consumer wearables like
smartwatches and portable cardiac devices.

Who can take part?

  • Imperial College staff and students, men and women aged 18-80 years

Taking part involves 1 single study visit, lasting approximately 10 minutes:

  • A short health questionnaire
  • Having your height and weight measured
  • Having ECG recordings taken using Apple Watch, KardiaMobile, and Ekodigital stethoscope

For further information regarding our study, please visit:

https://cardiacep.ai/infosheet

If you are interested in taking part, we are currently taking appointments for study visits at the Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine (ICTEM) via the following link:

https://cardiacepai.setmore.com/cardiacepai 

Please note, currently appointments are being taken up to 2 weeks in advance to avoid overbooking. New appointment slots will be available every week.

Many thanks for taking the time to read this email!

Dr. Ahmed El-Medany a.el-medany24@imperial.ac.uk

The Cardiac Electrophysiology & AI Research Group

Imperial College London

Call out: Students from underrepresented backgrounds – Do you feel like you belong here?

Hi all,

My name is Mohamed, and I’m a Master’s student here at Imperial. I’m currently researching how those of us from underrepresented backgrounds (ethnic minorities and working-class individuals) navigate the world of academia, and how much we feel we belong to the institutions we inhabit.

I am interested in exploring the experiences of ‘home’ PhD students at Imperial.

If you feel like you would be interested in participating in this research and sharing your experiences, please fill out the MS form below so we can arrange an chat:

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=B3WJK4zudUWDC0-CZ8PTBzausvIQsJtHjbVzOyj00WtURTlPRzE2MVEzVUdYTFIzMFZYTko4S1RWNi4u

I would greatly appreciate your contributions.

Kind regards,

Mohamed Shadid (MSc Science Communication)

Exploring precarity in research careers survey

We need your support to better understand and alleviate the precarious nature of fixed-term contracts.

The Action Research on Research Culture project at the University of Cambridge is conducting an online Discrete Choice Experiment to examine how postdocs and ECRs make career choices. The results from this survey will inform policy recommendations aimed at increasing job security at the postdoctoral level.

With only 10-15 minutes of your time, you can contribute to the conversation about contract precarity in the academic sector and help us improve job security for ECRs. As a token of our appreciation, we will donate £2 to a charity of your choice for completion of our survey!

Survey can be completed here.

The Petri Dish: Making Science Social

Welcome to The Petri Dish, we are a community made for scientists, by scientists, to promote more interdisciplinary social conversations for early career researchers.

We aim to bring together scientists from all disciplines across industry, academia and start-ups by providing events, and a space to reach out to people with varying expertise. We hope to not only use this community to talk about our own work and passions, but to use the network to foster relationships and collaborations across disciplines.

Help us tailor TPD to you by filling out our form: https://lnkd.in/e5ibtWnm

If you want to be involved as a team member please reach out to: thepetridish1@gmail.com

Borrow recreational audiobooks and e-books with Libby

Borrow recreational audiobooks and e-books to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by OverDrive.

Sign in to OverDrive for access to nearly 600 audiobooks and e-books including bestsellers, prize-winning fiction, and titles in German, Spanish and French.

Download the Libby app to borrow up to 10 titles for 14 days. Titles expire automatically at the end of the loan period so you do not have to return them.

If someone else has borrowed the title you want, just place a hold on it and the service will let you know when it’s available.

You can also use ‘Recommend to library’ to suggest additional titles to purchase. This feature is available in OverDrive (coming soon to Libby).

Libby is only available to Imperial staff and students.