Early career researchers

Support and information for early career researchers in the School of Cancer Sciences

Support and development

Researcher Development

Researcher Development is part of the multi-disciplinary Research Culture & Researcher Development team, in the Research Services Directorate. They work to ensure that every researcher is supported to be at their best, as part of a engaging, fair, and collegial culture in which people help each other to succeed, and to make informed active choices about their development and their careers.  The portal below provides a wealth of information for all research staff and students.

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Network for Early Career Researcher Development:

Network for Early Career Researcher Development (NERD) welcomes anyone in MVLS who identify themselves as Early Career Researchers (ECRs).

The members range from PhD students to early PIs, and include technical staff and lecturers, in a clinical and non-clinical setting. 

Goals of NERD:

  • Provide career support, information & advice for ECRs in MVLS.
  • Foster collegiality, collaboration & sharing of resources.
  • To better understand the challenges facing ECRs, advocating for their needs to senior management.

NERD mailing list

NERD events

Recognising Excellence in Teaching

The University offers development opportunities and professional recognition of expertise in teaching and supporting learning

Career management

Other help and support includes:

  • queries or research integrity issues
  • developing research policies
  • supporting policy compliance, including data archiving
  • disseminating policy updates
  • co-ordinating the research integrity champions
  • acting as an internal and external point of contact for research misconduct concerns and allegations
  • undertaking initial research misconduct investigations and reporting to the Director
  • engaging with the sector
  • writing the annual research integrity statement

 

Athena Swan (Scientific Women's Academic Network)

V.O.I.C.E (Visibility, Opportunity, Inclusion, Career development, Equality)

EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion)

Key Contacts for ECRs

Fellowship/Grant Support Committee

This team is here to support ECRs in the process of applying for fellowships, by providing advice and guidance.

When you are ready to start an application, it is advised to contact someone from the team at the initial stage of the process.

  • Prof Stephen Tait (he/him, CRUK-SI)
    • Key interests: mitochondria & cell death
  • Prof Julia Cordero (she/her, WWCRC, L2)
    • Key interests: local and systemic functions of the adult intestine in health & disease, using Drosophila to identify interorgan communication
  • Prof Vignir Helgason (he/him, WWCRC, L3)
    • Key interests: leukaemia stem cells, autophagy & cancer metabolism
  • Prof Alison Michie (she/her, Paul O’Gorman Leukaemia Research Centre)
    • Key interests: in molecular lymphopoiesis, to identify molecular events that initiate the development and maintenance of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
  • Prof Gareth Inman (he/him, CRUK-SI)
    • Key interests: growth factor signalling and squamous cancers
  • Prof Vicky Cowling (she/her, CRUK-SI)
    • key interest: the signalling pathways that coordinate and regulate gene expression, and how dysregulation of these pathways is a cause or consequence of disease
  • Dr Zoi Diamantopoulou (she/her, CRUK-SI)
    • key interest: to understand how metastasis is regulated by the circadian rhythm
  • Prof Richard Wilson (he/him, Clinical; BWoSCC)
    • key interests: gastrointestinal cancer, drug development, biomarkers, personalised medicine and early & late phase clinical trials
  • Prof Campbell Roxburgh (he/him, Clinical; WWCRC, L2)
    • key interests: a colorectal surgeon specialising in personalised therapy and advances in treatment through application of robotics and artificial intelligence

ECR Representatives for School of Cancer Sciences