Tag: Research Staff

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.

Cancer Research Horizons – Innovation Summit 2025 (18 November 2025)

Innovation Summit 2025

Explore how to translate your research from lab to clinic at the Innovation Summit 2025

Organised by Cancer Research Horizons, the innovation arm of Cancer Research UK, the Innovation Summit is a great chance to dive into the world of entrepreneurship, hear directly from researchers who have launched successful ventures and connect with entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders.

This year, it’s taking place at The Royal Institution in London on 18 November.

Whether you are curious about entrepreneurship or looking to grow your collaborative network, the Summit is designed to support your journey.

CTA: Reserve your spot now https://bit.ly/44Z7Q3C

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

EDI Hub+ Flexible Fund (deadline: 11 September 2025)

Transformative funding to advance equality, diversity and inclusion in Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Apply for funding to support innovative projects that drive meaningful change in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences (EPMS).

This funding call from the EPSRC EDI Hub+ seeks proposals that will implement, evaluate, and scale-up interventions and initiatives across three key themes: career pathways, research funding and processes, and organisational culture and space.

Who can apply?

To apply for funding, you need to be based at an organisation approved by UKRI. We welcome applications from a broad range of roles, including academic and research roles, professional enabling staff roles, grant managers, technicians and specialists, and those with relevant skills and experience. The flexible leadership model allows for multiple project leads, including job-share arrangements.

Funding opportunities

Funding is available for three types of projects:

  • Pilot projects (£50K, up to 12 months): Testing and refining approaches to tackle unmet EDI challenges.
  • Scale-up projects (£80K, up to 12 months): Expanding successful EDI interventions and initiatives to wider settings.
  • Evaluation projects (£30K, up to 12 months): Developing evaluation frameworks and analysing the effectiveness of existing interventions or initiatives.

How to apply

We will publish full details on how to apply when the funding opportunity opens.

How we will assess your application

Applications will be assessed by the EDI Hub+ Opportunity Review Panel based on impact potential, co-design approach, stakeholder engagement, and evaluation quality.

Key dates

  • Pre-announcement: 2 April 2025
  • Webinar: 8 May 2025
  • Opening date: 8 May 2025
  • Application deadline: 11 September 2025

An Access Fund is available to support accessibility needs. Successful applicants will receive guidance and details from the EDI Hub+ team at the time of award.

Further information

For full pre-announcement information, visit the EPSRC EDI Hub+ Flexible Fund guidance page.

The EDI Hub+ are hosting a webinar to outline the Flexible Fund and give potential applicants an opportunity to ask questions on 8 May.

Visit the Flexible Fund webinar webpage for more details on the webinar and to register.

Follow the EPSRC EDI Hub+ on LinkedIn.

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.

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