Month: March 2024

Zero Pollution Pioneer Awards (apply by 30 April 2024)

We are excited to announce a new awards scheme for postgraduate student research projects – the Zero Pollution Pioneer Awards.

About the awards

We have five £800 awards for sustainability-related projects that fit within the five submission categories:

  • Urban ecosystems: people and planet
  • Zero pollution mobility
  • Sustainable resources and zero waste
  • Emerging environmental hazards and health
  • Resilient, regenerative and restorative systems

Postgraduate taught and research (MRes, PhD) students from Imperial are eligible to apply.

Further details are on the website and application is through Qualtrics.

The deadline for applications is 30 April 2024

Imperial staff and students have full access to Overton

Following the College-wide trial for Overton, Imperial has now subscribed to the product.

All staff and students have full access to Overton. If you are within Imperial’s IP range, you will be able to browse Overton and see policy documents without logging in. However, we encourage to create a personal account to use all Overton’s functionalities. Get in touch with Yusuf Ozkan (y.ozkan@imperial.ac.uk) to request the registration link.

We will arrange a walkthrough session with the Overton team and let you know once the date is confirmed. In the meantime, you can check out the following resources:

1) A short video introducting Overton

2) Getting Started  section on Overton’s Knowledge Base to help get users oriented to the platform

3) You can also sign up to Overton’s newsletter  which contains new features and other useful information for users.

Overton is a policy document database and helps find the impact of academic research outputs within policy documents. It facilitates searches for policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications, and working papers. The product collects data from nearly 200 countries in various languages. Overton also tracks the impact of research outputs on policy by identifying references, people, and organisations. It reveals where research articles are cited or mentioned in policy documents.

You can contact Yusuf Ozkan, Research Outputs Analyst (y.ozkan@imperial.ac.uk) for your questions.
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Friday Forum: The Ages of Science – 10 May 2024

This event is part of the Friday Forums, a series of events consisting of a panel followed by an audience discussion. It is a rule of the Forum that half of the time is given over to audience discussion. Do come along expecting to be involved in lively discussion and debate. All Friday Forums are free with lunch provided and are open to all College members.

The Ages of Science, 10 May, concerns the way we do our science differently, as we get older.

Programme

12.20-13.00 – panellists and attendees arrive for an informal lunch (sandwiches and refreshments provided)

13.00-14.00 – panel discussion, chaired by Dr Stephen Webster, followed by audience Q and A and conversation.

Discussion points

  • How does your age affect the way you do your science?
  • How do your values change, as you move through the science career?
  • When we look back at our careers, or look forward, what ideas emerge?

Panellists

  • Professor Denis Wright (Emeritus Professor in the Department of Life Sciences)
  • Professor Clare Lloyd (Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine)
  • Dr Sam Cooper (Senior Lecturer in Dyson School of Engineering)

Register here.

Volunteer at the Great Exhibition Road Festival (Deadline: 20 May 2024)

 

The Great Exhibition Road Festival is back this summer on 15-16 June with hundreds of free events for the public! Alongside the iconic cultural institutions along Exhibition Road, our Imperial community will be sharing their incredible research through activities for all ages across the weekend. But none of it would be possible without an amazing cohort of volunteers helping things run smoothly!

Open to all Imperial staff and students, volunteering at the Great Exhibition Road Festival is a great way to try something different, develop new skills, build confidence, and meet new people. Learn more about volunteering and how to sign up (the deadline is 20 May but sign up early to get more choice on where you’ll be location and what you’ll be doing!)

Shifts available at different times on Friday 14, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June.

LISS ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition (deadline: 16 May 2024)

The 2024 LISS ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship competition is Open!

Further details: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-pdf/

Application deadline: 16.00 on 16 May 2024

LISS DTP invites applications for ESRC-funded Post-Doctoral Fellowships (PDFs) to commence from 1st October 2024 to be held at King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London, or Imperial College London. These fellowships are aimed at aimed at providing a career development opportunity for those in the immediately postdoctoral stage of their career, to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills.

Fellowships will provide funding for up to one year full-time, or up to two years part-time to cover the fellow’s salary plus up to £10,000 for all other costs (e.g., travel, conference attendance, training, fieldwork, mentoring time, etc.).

All Fellows are required to have a mentor based at the research organisation where the fellowship is held. The mentor should have experience and a strong interest in the applicant’s field of research but should not normally have been the applicant’s PhD supervisor. Working with a non-academic partner is encouraged.

Proposals are welcome from both single discipline or a combination of disciplines, but social sciences must make up at least 50% of your fellowship activities and must fall under one of LISS DTP’s Research Areas: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/research-areas/

The call is open to applicants who:

  • Have completed their PhD at a UK research organisation.
    Applicants are not required to have previously held an ESRC funded studentship in order to be eligible to apply.
  • Have been awarded a PhD or have passed their viva voce with minor amendments by the application deadline of 16 May 2024 and have been awarded their PhD by the fellowship start date of 1 October 2024.
  • Have no more than 12 months full-time (or pro rata equivalent) of active postdoctoral experience by the competition closing date, 16 May 2024. This is defined as any post involving a research component – it does not include teaching-only contracts. The period is calculated between the date of the viva and 16 May 2024 (taking into account any career breaks).

Details of the application process and Call documents are available on the LISS DTP website: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-pdf/. 

You can also find out more about our previously funded Postdocs here: https://liss-dtp.ac.uk/esrc-pdf/current-postdoctoral-fellows/

If you have any queries, please email: liss-dtp@kcl.ac.uk