Category: Miscellaneous

Sustainable Christmas Tree Building Activity (25 & 27 Nov 2025)

This year, Imperial is consolidating the number of traditional Christmas trees across our campuses, and embracing creative alternatives like trees made of books and Tetrapaks. It’s all part of our commitment to reducing waste and promoting biodiversity!

We need your help! Come along to South Kensington Campus for two exciting tree-building sessions:

  • Tuesday 25 November, 12–2pm
    Library Café Book Tree – Help build a Christmas tree made entirely from reused books.
  • Thursday 27 November, 12–2pm

Queens Tower Rooms Tetrapak Tree – Join us in crafting a tree from clean Tetrapaks and reused boxes. (Make sure to bring your cleaned Tetrapaks or any delivery boxes you want to contribute!)

Any questions, please get in touch with sustainable@imperial.ac.uk

 

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.