Month: October 2024

All You Can Innovate: Sustainability – 27 November 2024

All You Can Innovate: Sustainability

Wednesday 27 November, 9 am to 3 pm

Sir Michael Uren Building, White City Campus, Level 12

“If you’re a researcher or startup founder at Imperial working on research or innovation in sustainability, join us in White City for All You Can Innovate: Sustainability on 27 November.

At this all-day event tailored to inspire collaboration and spark ideas for a sustainable future, you’ll have the opportunity to hear expert advice from seasoned entrepreneurs and industry experts in our conference sessions. And if you want to connect with industry partners or funders, you can take part in our corporate speed-dating sessions to share your research interests and explore potential collaborations.

Beyond traditional networking, All You Can Innovate offers participation in panel discussions, presentations, and a poster display through which you can showcase your work to an engaged and supportive innovation community.”

For the full agenda and to register

Seeking sustainability startups to nominate for £1m Earthshot Prize (deadline: 17 Nov 2024)

Imperial is an Official Nominator for the Earthshot Prize 2025. An Imperial panel is seeking sustainability startups from the university and beyond to put themselves forward for consideration. It will then send its chosen nominations to the Earthshot Prize Council to consider for its five £1m prizes.

Submit your startup by 17 November 2024.

Find out more

Global Fellows Fund – applications close: 27 Nov 2024

Applications are now open for the Global Fellows Fund 2024-25.

The Imperial Global Fellows Fund supports high impact international placements for PhD students in labs at Imperial’s strategic international partners.
Students, with support of their PhD supervisor and host supervisor, will have the opportunity to spend between 1 and 3 months at one of the following partners:

  • Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany
  • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  •  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India
  • Karolinska Institute, Sweden
  • French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France (NB approval is needed from both the CNRS host supervisor and her/his head of department or institute)
  • African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Rwanda, South Africa, Senegal, Cameroon and Ghana
  • Cornell University, USA
  • University of Toronto, Canada
  • Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 27 November.

Financial support for this scheme is provided in part by the College’s 2024-25 Turing Scheme award.

For the 2024/25 academic year, the International Relations Office will provide top up funding equal to the cost-of-living grant provided by the Turing scheme grant to help cover more of the overall costs. Enhanced funding is also available for those who meet the necessary criteria.

For further details, including full guidance, eligibility criteria, information on the partners and a link to the application form, please visit the webpage.

Queries can be sent to globalseedfunds@imperial.ac.uk

Applications opens for WE Innovate (deadline: 24 Nov 2024)


WE Innovate Applications OPEN!

Begin your journey as a startup founder through the WE Innovate programme, led on-campus by the Imperial Enterprise Lab.

Got a business idea, product, or technology that you want to explore and develop?

WE Innovate provides 25 women-led teams with the skills needed for you and your idea to thrive, with a chance to win up to £15k. You can turn your early-stage business idea into a pitch-ready startup through a bespoke five-month programme of workshops, coaching, network building and mentoring, all designed to fit around your studies or other commitments.

WE Innovate is open to Imperial students, early career researchers and alumni within three years of graduation. Over the past ten years, the programme has supported over 500 Imperial women who have gone on to raise more than £37.5 million for their startups.

Applications close on Sunday 24 November. We are running a range of workshops and events to help you prepare ahead of the deadline. You can also drop-in to our Office Hours to talk to a member of the team.

Find out more and apply: imperialenterpriselab.com/we-innovate

Call for volunteers – Confront Educational Inequality mentoring programme

Do you want to contribute to making higher education accessible for all students, but don’t know how? Then we have just the program for you!

Confront Educational Inequality’ is a grassroots-driven, EDI seed-funded, mentoring programme, providing 6th form students from a school in a socioeconomically deprived area of London with extra support. We have partnered with Ark Academy in Wembley and now for the first year Barnet Pioneer for the last 5 years to assist highly motivated students (Year 12) in:

  1. Creating a scientific poster in the mentee’s topic of choice.
  2. Applying to universities.

Partnered with the Ark Academy in Wembley, and Ark Pioneer, Barnet the CIE (Confronting Inequality in Education) programme provides support to Year 12 students studying STEM subjects. The initiative aims to foster a nurturing environment for scientific exploration, and to equip students with a diverse set of skills to strengthen university applications.

The programme involves:

  • Matching an Imperial postgraduate student or staff member (mentor) with a Year 12 student (mentee), according to mutual research interest where possible
  • 1-2-1 remote meetings between the mentor and the mentee, with three face-to-face meetings. A time commitment of about 4h / month for the duration of the programme. You do not need to be based in London but we do ask you to try to come meet your mentee during the face-to-face meetings (see dates below) whenever possible to benefit mentor-mentee relationships
  • Until Spring 2025, supervise your mentee to make a scientific poster on a topic of their choice, that will be presented at the final showcase at Imperial College. Afterwards, support your mentee on career aspirations and university applications

Provisional Dates 2024-2025

  • w/c 2nd December, late afternoon/ evening: Career speed-meeting to meet your mentee and give them insights into your studies and/or career path. Location: Ark Academy, Wembley or Ark Pioneer, Barnet (depending on your allocated mentee)
  • Mid to Late January, Afternoon: Crash course for mentees on how to make a scientific poster. Location: Imperial College (South Kensington or White City campus) – this is optional for mentors
  • Late April, Afternoon: poster presentations by mentees to their peers, mentors, and other interested parties. Location: Imperial College (South Kensington or White City Campus)
  • Summer: mentees write personal statement for UCAS applications with mentors support
  • Autumn / winter: Interview preparation.

The students (Y12) are taking courses in Maths, Chemistry, Physics, and/or Biology, and we are looking for mentors whose research has a base in any of those topics, including Engineering.  We are looking for mentors, ranging from PGT students to PIs – everyone is welcome to join!  Any additional experiences (a day in the lab, running a small experiment) that you could give your mentee, would be the cherry on top!

Register to become a mentor here: https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a9LkJlOM6D8CcXc

This year we have a record number of mentees signed up, and it would be fantastic if we were able to support them all.  If you have any questions, please get in touch with ciementoring@imperial.ac.uk

Friday Forums

The Good Science Project is delighted to announce its new series of Friday Forums. Friday Forums are congenial in-person lunchtime discussions, with lunch provided, on some topic concerning research culture. They are open to all College members, and are a good opportunity for researchers to step back from their busy day for a short hour, gain new perspectives on their work, and meet researchers from other departments.

The first Friday Forum on October 25th may interest in particular those of you who work with animal models. The second Friday Forum, on November 8th, may interest in particular those of you who seek to make links in your work with the social sciences and the humanities.

More details and registration details are below:

  1. Animal research at Imperial – looking back, looking forward. With  Robert Floyd, John Meredith, Victoria Male and Richard van Arkel. October 25. Room 121 SAFB. Register here.
  2. Celebrating the social sciences at Imperial. With Dr Mike Tennant, Dr Diana Varaden and Prof. Steve Fuller, Comte Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick. November 8. Room 122 SAFB. Register here.
  3. Measuring science, seeing virtue. With Prof. Mary Ryan; Prof. André Spicer, Dean of Bayes Business School, City University; and Prof. Stephen Curry. December 13. Room 122 SAFB. Register here.
  4. Scientific research as a public activity. With Katherine Mathieson, director of the Royal Institution and Clare Matterson, CEO of the Royal Horticultural Society. January 31. Room 122 SAFB. Register here.
  5. Faith in research. With the Very Rev. Dr. Mark Oakley, Dean of Southwark and Professor Ian Walmsley FRS, Provost of Imperial College. March 14. Room 122 SAFB. Register here.

 

International Family Network

Are you an international student with dependants ?   Our International Family Network is for all Imperial International Students who have their dependants with them in the UK.  We arrange fun trips and events for you and your family such as theatre trips , visits to London tourist destinations and also on campus events such as the traditional Easter Egg Hunt in the College Gardens  .  See our website for further details.

Join our mailing list here or email s.markey@imperial.ac.uk .