Tag: Doctoral Students

Space Policy and Law Course (15 – 17 Oct 2025)

The London Institute of Space Policy and Law is pleased to announce the programme for the Space Policy and Law Course for 2025.

This interactive annual course will take place 15 – 17 October 2025, online, and explores space policy and law to inform professionals in the space sector about the policy and legal principles and the latest developments affecting space activities.

Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information including how to apply, please visit this webpage.

Considering Cambridge: Support for prospective postdoc applicants

This summer, the Postdoc Academy is piloting a new online session designed to support prospective postdoc applicants. The webinar offers insights into Cambridge’s research environment and practical guidance on navigating the UK academic application process.

What to expect:

  • An overview of Cambridge’s research culture and how it fits within the UK higher education landscape
  • Insights into the benefits and realities of working as a postdoc at Cambridge, including support structures, supervision, college affiliation, and career development opportunities
  • Tips on reading UK academic job adverts and preparing an effective application
  • Clarification on what Cambridge can (and can’t) offer in terms of support, relocation, and staff benefits
  • Responses to common questions from prospective applicants (with the opportunity to submit your own in advance)

Who it’s for:
This session is aimed at researchers anywhere in the world who are thinking about a postdoc at Cambridge but are still exploring whether it’s the right fit for them.

Delivery format:
The session will be hosted on Zoom as a webinar. It will include a short presentation followed by a panel discussion. Questions will be collected in advance.

Choose a session:

Please note: this is an informational session. We cannot offer personalised application support or introductions to individual academics.

ECRI’s Springboard Women’s Development Programme for ECRs

We’re delighted to announce ECRI’s pilot version of the Springboard Women’s Development Programme specifically for Early Career Researchers! This award-winning programme will be delivered by ECRI’s Researcher Developer Emma Francis.

What to Expect

This Springboard programme offers a unique opportunity for women researchers to identify clear, practical and realistic steps they want to take, and allows them to develop the skills and self-confidence to take those steps.

The programme consists of four development days set over four months, with each development day combining both discussion and interactive activities. Alongside networking opportunities, you will hear from women across Imperial sharing reflections from their personal and professional lives.

Topics covered include: 

  • Building self-awareness
  • Understanding values
  • Strengths
  • Goals
  • Assertiveness
  • Dealing with pressure
  • Networking
  • Managing Visibility

Who can register 

This programme is open to all Postgraduate Doctoral Students (including clinical), Postdocs and Fellows who identify as female.

For Postgraduate Doctoral Students, this programme will count towards your professional skills credits.

Programme dates and location 

The upcoming programme will take place at I-Hub, White City Campus, on the following dates: 

  • Friday 12 September, 9:30 to 4:30pm
  • Friday 10 October, 9:30 to 4:30pm
  • Friday 7 November, 9:30 to 4:30pm
  • Friday 5 December, 9:30 to 4:30pm

Please note participants must be able to attend all four days.

 

Register your interest

There are 36 places available for this cohort, and we are aiming to have representation from across the ECR community.

Please register your interest via Qualtrics by 12pm on Monday 18th August. A member of the team will be in touch to confirm whether you have secured a place by Friday 22nd August.

If you have any questions, please get in touch at ecri@imperial.ac.uk.  

Beyond Ethnicity Career Conference – Friday 26 September 2025

Imperial As One and Imperial College’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre are very please to announce this year Imperial’s Beyond Ethnicity Career Conference (BECC) for Minority Ethnic staff and students will take place on Friday 26 September 2025 at Imperial’s South Kensington Campus. This year’s theme will be What’s the fuss about EDI? Navigating the Diversity Backlash and will delve into why Equality and Diversity is needed more than ever for individuals and organisations to thrive.

The one-day event is open to everyone at early career stage including research staff, professional, technical and operational staff, and MSc and PhD students.

2025’s keynote talk will be from Gamiel Yafai MBE, founder of Diversity Marketplace, an initiative set up to support Recruitment Resourcing/Branding Agencies, and Direct Clients to achieve their Diversity an Inclusion objectives in terms of recruitment, attraction and retention. Since its inception, Diversity Marketplace has also conducted 32 research projects and developed many training programmes including the facilitation of the Civil Service’s Positive action Pathway (PAP) modules, Action Learning Sets and development days.

In 2016 Gamiel released his book Demystifying Diversity: A Handbook to Navigate Equality, Diversity and Inclusion– a guidebook to explain the major issues and complexities involved in Equality theory and practice.

Register your place now for this exciting and free event!

Faculty of Natural Sciences Showcase 2025 (11 Sept)

Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and find out about our innovative work. Everybody is welcome! Please register as soon as possible (deadline is 17.00 on 9 September 2025).

Find out more & register: Natural Sciences Showcase 2025 | Events | Imperial College London

EarthScale: A new national programme to scale climate tech (deadline: 07 Sept 2025)

EarthScale: A new national programme to scale climate tech

We’re proud to be one of six partner universities delivering EarthScale, a bold new UK-wide programme supporting IP-rich climate tech startups and spinouts to scale to commercialisation.

Across the UK, high-potential climate innovations are emerging but too often, ventures stall between prototype and commercial success. EarthScale bridges that gap.

Backed by a powerhouse network of regional university hubs – Imperial College London, Cranfield University, the University of Derby, the University of Exeter, the University of Leeds and the University of Nottingham – the programme delivers:

  • Access to world-class technical & manufacturing facilities
  • Expert enterprise development and investor connections
  • Talent and peer engagement
  • Navigation of policy and regulation

If you’re developing a solution for net zero or climate resilience at TRL 5 – 6 and have raised seed investment, this is your opportunity to scale.

Applications open now until 7 September. Learn more and apply at www.earthscale.co.uk

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)

GTA Opportunity – Paid LaTeX development opportunity

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.

UKRI Policy Internships scheme – call for applicants (deadline: 08 Sept 2025)

As part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s postgraduate training portfolio, the UKRI Policy Internships scheme provides an opportunity for UKRI-funded doctoral students to undertake a three-month placement at one of a selected group of influential policy organisations.

Funding opportunity closing date: 08 September 2025

Find out more & apply

Opportunities for PhDs/Postdocs (Quant research roles)

Options Group is hiring in for an important hedge fund client who manage >$10bn in aum.  The client is looking to speak with entry level PhDs or Postdocs focusing on Machine Learning/AI, Math, Stats, Physics, Computer Science for various quant research roles based in London.  Additionally, about the client’s search:

They are looking for exceptional generalists—either applied researchers or theorists with some coding experience. Historically, statisticians have been the most common hires, but last year they hired more pure math candidates than any other background. They’ve also brought on people with publications in machine learning journals and active GitHub profiles. Their hires include computer scientists, including those focused on theoretical CS. One of their Partners in London, for example, comes from a theoretical physics background..

Interested parties can contact Keith Macksoud (Options Group, Executive Director) immediately with a CV.