Tag: Research Staff

Empower – Connecting Black Researchers in the UK (29 May)

Are you a Black researcher in the UK?  Then this is for you!

Join us for Empower 2025, an event hosted by Imperial’s Black Doctoral Network that promotes community, collaboration, and career growth for Black researchers across the UK.

📅 Date: Thursday 29th May 2025
📍 Location: Imperial College London South Kensington

This is an opportunity to connect with researchers from diverse disciplines—from art and history to biotech and theoretical physics. Together, we’ll discuss challenges, share our triumphs, and build lasting networks.

What to Expect:

  • PhD project showcases from researchers across the country
  • Panel talks on PhD and post-PhD experiences from Black professionals
  • Interactive workshops on career development in and beyond academia
  • Networking sessions—with flowing food and drinks!

We understand how isolating research can be, and the Black Doctoral Network is committed to building a strong, supportive community. We’re incredibly proud of this event and can’t wait to see you there!

📢 Help spread the word! Share with your networks so this reaches those who need it most.

Sign up here: https://shorturl.at/MnP82

Survey: Exploring researcher engagement beyond academia (deadline: 23 May)

Survey: Exploring researcher engagement beyond academia

The Developing Business-Aware Academics project is running a survey to understand how researchers engage beyond academia.

Whether you regularly collaborate with partners beyond academia, are just starting out, or if you have never considered working with businesses, non-profits and policy organisations, we want to hear from you!

Complete the 10-15 minutes survey before the closing date on 23rd May to be sure to have your say!

By sharing your insights, you will inform the design of researcher training and networking programmes in universities.

The survey is being carried out by Developing Business-Aware Academics, a project responding to calls by universities, industry and government for greater research collaboration with non-academic organisations to realise the full potential of the UK’s research and innovation talent.

Applications open for Venture Catalyst Challenge (deadline: 15 June)

The Venture Catalyst Challenge (VCC) is now open for applications!

This is your chance to be part of Imperial Enterprise Lab’s flagship programme and compete for a share of £100,000 (equity free) in prize money, receive expert coaching, and access to our network of investors, mentors, and industry leaders.

VCC is open to current Imperial students, ECRs and recent alumni working on innovative solutions across these key tracks:

🧠 AI & Robotics
🌍 Creative & Consumer
🔬 Digital & Finance
🌱 Energy & Environment
🧬 Health & Wellbeing

You’ll benefit from:

✅ Weekly masterclasses
✅ Personalised venture coaching
✅ Pitch training and feedback
✅ The chance to pitch at the Grand Final for prizes and exposure

📅 Deadline to apply: Thursday 15 June 2025

Click here to apply

 

Annual Research Symposium 2025 – Thursday 29th May 2025, SK Campus

About the 2025 Research Symposium:

The research symposium is an annual event, held with support from the Early Career Researcher Institute (ECRI), and brings together multi-disciplinary faculty researchers and current PhD scholars to present their ongoing research across the College. While the event is primarily targeted at postgraduate students, everyone who is interested is welcome to attend.

Event Details:

  • Date: Thursday 29th May 2025
  • Time: 10:00-18:30
  • Location: Main Foyer and Lecture Theatre (Room 200), City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus (map)
  • Format: in-person conference with refreshments served
  • Registration and more information: Eventbrite link here

CfAE’s summer term ‘Writing a research paper’ sessions (May 2025)

Writing a paper for publication?

Register for CfAE’s ‘Writing a research paper’ activity sessions! 

In these sessions, you will be trained to become more reader-aware through guided analysis of published research papers to identify the structure, language and strategies used by successful writers in your field. This training will both speed up your writing and ensure your paper truly communicates the value of your research to an increasingly global and interdisciplinary readership. Many participants who’ve benefited from this training have fed back that it’s transformed their approach to writing papers.

In case you’re not aware, all members of Imperial (whether or not English is their first language) at all stages of their degree or academic career have the opportunity to benefit from CfAE provision.

These weekly 50-minute sessions are offered both online and on campus (South Kensington).

Upcoming sessions:

Writing a successful abstract: 6 May

Writing a successful introduction: 13 May

Writing a successful results section: 20 May 

Writing a successful discussion and conclusions section: 27 May

PhD Career Panel (21 May 2025)

All PhD students and postdocs are warmly invited to the annual PhD Careers Panel, organised by the Imperial College Careers Service, is taking place on Wednesday 21st May from 18:00 to 19:30 online (Teams). You can book your place at: PhD Career Panel 2025

Postdocs will need to register with the Careers Service to book. To do this go to https://www.imperial.ac.uk/careers/about/jobslive/ and register as Imperial College staff. If you have any issues with the system, email careers@ic.ac.uk.

At this online panel event we will host 5 STEM PhD graduates (two with postdoc experience) who have now gone to work in different career areas. They will share their experiences of moving from PhD research into their current jobs. You can ask them questions about their career paths – for example what motivated them to pick their current career, what it’s like to do their job, how to succeed in applications and interviews etc. Our speakers include PhD graduates now working in finance, consultancy, patents and R&D. This is a great chance to get inspired about all the different options for your post-PhD career path!

Confirmed speakers:

  • Jake Dunn, Machine Learning Engineer at JPMorganChase; PhD in Mathematics
  • Tatiana Lopes, Strategy Insights and Planning Associate at ZS; PhD in Clinical Medicine
  • Chris Poll, Patent Attorney at Kilburn & Strode; PhD in Materials Sciences + postdoc
  • Arushri Swarup, Medical Device R&D Engineer, OrganOx; PhD in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering + postdoc
  • Sophia Vorderwuelbecke, Senior R&D Engineer, Ansys (France); PhD in Mathematics

 

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.

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Your Research (online)

What’s your research carbon footprint? While the average person in the UK emits 5 tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, many academics emit more than 15 tonnes. To maintain safe and equitable boundaries, the planet needs us to emit only 2 tonnes per year.

Why do academics emit so much more than the average? In this interactive and non-judgmental workshop, we’ll consider how our energy use, digital activities, travel, diets, consumer habits, and research practices all contribute to our emissions. We’ll cover:

  • Why we need to urgently reduce our carbon footprint.
  • What science tells us about the impact of our activities.
  • How we can make changes to reduce carbon emissions.

By the end of this workshop, participants will have:

  • Insights into your current carbon footprint.
  • Practical actions you can take to reduce your emissions.
  • Tools for considering the impact of future activities

It’s never too late to get started! No judgement or pressure, just empowerment.

To sign-up to this course please register via ICIS: https://icisprd.ad.ic.ac.uk/ 

Once signed, go to ‘My training’ and search for ‘Carbon Footprint’ and follow the prompted steps to register.

Emerging Innovators Postdoctoral Fellowship  (closing date: 11 May)

Emerging Innovators Postdoctoral Fellowship

Starting salary £41,344, plus London allowances (£5,385) per annum

MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, London, UK

The LMS is a biomedical research institute with a strong history of training and mentoring the next generation of clinical and non-clinical scientists. Postdoctoral scientists at the LMS have gone on to accomplish great scientific achievements both during and beyond their time with us.

The Emerging Innovators Fellowship Scheme is funded by the MRC’s ‘Black in Biomedical Research’ project, which is an overarching programme of work established to tackle the sustained under-representation of researchers from Black heritage backgrounds across MRC and the biomedical sciences.

This is a training and development position suitable for you if you are from a Black heritage background and have recently completed your doctoral studies or are an early career researcher. Alongside world-class scientists you will be working in an institute renowned for its excellent scientific facilities and high-quality research.

You will be an enthusiastic individual with a PhD in the relevant field, or due to complete by Spring 2025, with a strong background in one of our three research priority areas. There will be opportunities to present scientific work at seminars within the laboratory and at external meetings, draft scientific papers and contribute to the overall preparation of research for publication.

To apply and access full details about the Fellowship please visit our website. Emerging Innovators Fellowship – MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

If you have any questions, please contact us at peopleandculture@lms.mrc.ac.uk

Opening date: Thursday 3 April 2025 

Closing date: Sunday 11 May 2025

 

Summer Term Day and Evening Classes: Arts, Humanities & Languages

Join us in South Kensington this summer on one of our exciting day and evening classes in the arts, humanities and languages.

From Introductory French to Beginners Watercolours and British Sign Language to Discovering Art Therapy, we have a wide range of courses designed to educate, inform and entertain.

No previous experience is needed in any subject, so whether you fancy taking up printmaking as a hobby, starting that novel you know you have inside you, or you’ve always wanted to know the secrets of modern art, you’ll find a course here for you.

Enrolling now – for full details visit http://www.imperial.ac.uk/adult-ed