Cancer Research UKs Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards recognise researchers tackling cancer with an entrepreneurial mindset. These Awards are ideal for those exploring the next steps in their careers or developing start-ups in this space.
Winners gain funding, increased visibility for their work, and access to a network of industry professionals, investors, and fellow entrepreneurs. Nominations are now open, with a deadline of 17 March.
Find out more and nominate here.
We need your support to better understand and alleviate the precarious nature of fixed-term contracts.
The Action Research on Research Culture project at the University of Cambridge is conducting an online Discrete Choice Experiment to examine how postdocs and ECRs make career choices. The results from this survey will inform policy recommendations aimed at increasing job security at the postdoctoral level.
With only 10-15 minutes of your time, you can contribute to the conversation about contract precarity in the academic sector and help us improve job security for ECRs. As a token of our appreciation, we will donate £2 to a charity of your choice for completion of our survey!
Are you a researcher, engineer, or clinician working on or interested in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research? If you’re based at Imperial, Imperial NHS, or St Mark’s Hospital, we’re building an IBD research community to foster collaborations, support grant applications, and facilitate knowledge sharing and translation across all departments, career stages, and backgrounds.
Please take a moment to help us map this network by completing this short form: Join the IBD Research Community.
Save the Date for Our First Networking Event
📅 When: 24th April, 16:00
📍 Where: Hammersmith Campus
Let us know if you’ll be attending by filling out the form by 21st February, so we can secure the right venue size.
Join the new Viva Engage channel: Measuring Visibility and Impact
Scholarly Communications Management team has created a new Viva Engage community channel, Measuring Visibility and Impact to share insights and updates and invite discussion and collaboration on the various tools that imperial subscribes to. Tips and guidance on responsible use of metrics will also be shared.
Imperial subscribes to a number of powerful tools (e.g. Altmetric for tracking mentions of research publications on social media and news and Overton for monitoring citations on policy documents), but many staff and students are either unaware of these sources or unsure how to use them effectively. Through the Measuring Visibility and Impact channel, we aim to bridge this gap by advertising the tools, sharing updates about them, interesting case studies and organising training sessions to equip you to work with them.
The research analytics products allow you to:
The community channel will support Imperial’s commitment to the responsible use of metrics by promoting best practice, fostering awareness, and keeping you updated about initiatives and opportunities. The channel will serve the ultimate objective of building a healthy research culture at Imperial by helping us break out of the dysfunctional culture of publish-or-perish.
Please join the Measuring Visibility and Impact community channel on Viva Engage and share this message with your contacts who might be interested.