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Past ECR events

Across the last few years, the ECR Symposium has highlighted the work of our early career researchers and provided a focus for their development.

The annual ECR Symposium brought early career researchers - research assistants, postdocs and research fellows - out of their office or lab bubbles to make connections across disciplines, consider their career progression and development, and be inspired by others.

As part of the Summer of Research, our ECR-focussed events continue to showcase and celebrate ßÏßÏÊÓƵ's brilliantly diverse ECR work and the important contribution it makes to the wider University. Check out this year's schedule on our main Celebrating Emerging Researchers page.

Take a look back at previous Symposium highlights.

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Programme of events

• Keynote: on research careers
  
• Diverse careers roundtable:
  • Prof Kristi Langhoff, Professor of Social Work (Education and Social Work)
  • , Associate Professor (Engineering and Informatics)
  • , Research Fellow (Engineering and Informatics)
  • , ßÏßÏÊÓƵ's Senior Quality and Impact Manager
  • , Lecturer in Education Studies at University of West London
  •  Senior Editor at Nature Protocols journal
• Talk:  on developing a policy brief
• Seed Fund showcase and networking lunch
• Workshop 1: Creativity in writing
• Workshop 2: Promotions
• ECR Dragons' Den Final
• Drinks reception

ECR Image Competition 2024

First place: Louisa Rinaldi (Psychology), Second place: Rachael Durrant (Business School), People's Choice Award: Jo Tregenza (Education & Social Work)

Dragons' Den Competition 2024

The ECR Dragons' Den was an opportunity for researchers to bid for up to £2,000 in research funding and gain experience in bid-writing and pitching to a non-specialist audience. 

The award targeted innovative projects which, in line with ßÏßÏÊÓƵ's impact strategy, support the development of knowledge that challenges conventional wisdom.

Participants pitched to three 'dragons': , ECR Lead in Psychology,  from ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Innovation, and , 2023 Dragons' Den Winner.

Results

First place: Grecia Garcia Garcia (Engineering and Informatics) - Developing and promoting guidelines for producing tactile diagrams [see Grecia's talk below]
Second place: Mohammed Saber Sotoodeh (Psychology) - Rate me if you can!
People's Choice Award: Antonio Hinojosa Garcia (Life Sciences) - Cortical circuits underlying simple forms of learning
Runner-up: Becky Dobson Phillips (Law, Politics and Sociology) - Corruption: From bad apples to bad orchards?

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Programme of events

• Keynotes: Empowering Early Career Researchers: Unleashing the Potential for Research Impact and Exploring Diverse Career Pathways
  • Dr John Thompson from the ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Sustainability Research Programme
  •  from ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Neuroscience
    
• Careers roundtable:
  
  • , Research Fellow at ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Drug Discovery Centre
  • , Senior Data Scientist at AECOM
  • , ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Research Development Manager
  • Dr. John Thompson,Co-director of the SSRP
  • Dr. Katherine Parker-Hay, Publishing Development Officer, Open Library of Humanities
• Research Culture Seed Fund Showcase and Networking Lunch
• ECR Dragons' Den Final
• Research Image Competition and Exhibition

ECR Image Competition 2023

First place: Simon Williams (Media, Arts and Humanities), Second place: Henry Dore (Engineering and Informatics), People's Choice Award: Ulla McKnight (Law, Politics and Sociology)

Dragons' Den Competition 2023

ßÏßÏÊÓƵ's inaugural ECR Dragons' Den offered researchers the opportunity to pitch for up to £3,000 in funding to develop novel or innovative approaches or scope out potential projects, adhering to the University's impact strategy and research culture goals.

Six finalists were selected, pitching to four 'dragons': Prof Debbie Keeling, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor Knowledge Exchange, Dr John Thompson, Deputy Director of SSRP, Dr Martin White, ECR Lead in Engineering and Informatics, and Dr Lincoln Colling, ECR Lead in Psychology.

Results

First place: Ulla McKnight (Law, Politics and Sociology) - Crafting a speculative map of young women of colour's sexual health care practices and their effects [watch Ulla's winning talk below]
Second place: Eleanor Jayawant (Brighton and ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Medical School) - Identifying novel therapeutic targets in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
People's Choice Award: Amanda Ferrell and Su Morris (Psychology) - Prepared for life? Perspectives of young people and schools about life skills education

Runner-up: Henry Dore (Engineering and Informatics) - Measuring harmful emissions from resin-based 3D printers
Runner-up: Gemma Aellah (Brighton and ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Medical School) - Why do people hate trees? A comparative study of what works, why people care, and why they don't, in citizen-led forms of tree-planting in East ßÏßÏÊÓƵ and East Africa
Runner-up: Laurence Bush (Engineering and Informatics) - Extremely accurate binaural recording device

Read about winner Ulla's research and what she hopes the experience could do for her work and her career.

Building on the successful Spotlight Profiles of ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Research Fellows, in June 2017 the Research Staff Office hosted a Spotlight session as part of the annual ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Impact Day.

The aim of the session was to celebrate the research achievements and impact of the University's Research Fellows through a series of short, engaging TED-style talks from postdoctoral researchers from across the University.

Our line up of speakers for Spotlight @ ßÏßÏÊÓƵ Impact Day was as follows:

• Dr Adam Barrett - Measuring Consciousness
• Dr Stefano Caserta - Discovery of Novel Biomarkers for Sepsis
• Dr Priya Deshingkar - Demonised migration brokers offer useful lessons for reducing migration risks
• Dr Helena Harder - From Patients to Apps: developing bWell - a breast cancer app
• Dr Mari Martiskainen - The Energy Cafe - Community Action on Fuel Poverty
• Dr Christiane Oedekoven - Remembering events - the influence of memory impairment
• Dr Katarzyna Pisanski - Science for sale: Predatory journals and editorial misconduct
• Dr Elizabeth Rendon-Morales - First minute of life: novel technologies for heart monitoring