The Research Staff Association and the University are launching a pilot scheme for prolonging access to email accounts and e-resources beyond the termination of research employment contracts – the first such scheme in the UK!
The scheme is designed to allow unemployed researchers to prepare for interviews, finalise manuscripts from their work, and more generally to more…
FAQs for Research Staff
These notes relate to building a track record of funding. Many researchers obtain funding for research conferences, research visits and other smaller items, prior to applying for independent fellowships and lectureships. To gain a competitive research appointment, one must have a competitive track record: whilst publications and expertise are clearly crucial for more…
The post-doc toral community at AstraZeneca, Alderley Edge, Cheshire would like to invite post-doctoral scientists at Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Leeds Universities to attend a multi-disciplinary symposium focused on scientific research applicable to drug discovery and development.
The aim of this symposium is to create an event to bring together all post-docs in the vicinity of more…
Are you a Post-doctoral research staff member or new Academic in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences? Do you have a compelling vision and a map of how what you do, or could do, contributes to your future? Would you like to be clearer about where you are heading, and have some constructive tools more…
Thursday 8 November, Macdonald Roxburghe Hotel, Edinburgh
Speakers confirmed!
The following people will be presenting at the conference:
This conference will focus on the role of research staff and research staff associations in leading and supporting sector change.
The plenary will have an international emphasis to reflect progress in setting up the International Consortium of Research Staff Associations (ICoRSA).
Participants will:
It’s here - a new Academic year! The EPS Researcher Development team have been busy putting together your Researcher Development programme for 2012-13. Below we have highlighted just some of the events in the calendar that are coming up over next few months, plus plenty of other opportunities to engage with your own career development.
What more…
The Editorial Board of the University’s Incite Newsletter is seeking to recruit an editor from across all four faculties.
Incite is a high profile University–wide Newsletter that focuses on personal and career development essentials for research staff - latest edition available here (pdf).
It is written by research staff for research staff and contains more…
The Research Staff Association (RSA) and Incite invite you to play in the first ever Manchester Mini Sandpit; a compressed version of the interactive, multidisciplinary workshops used by funding bodies to drive lateral thinking and radical approaches to research challenges.
As research funding becomes more competitive and inter-disciplinary, the need to develop and improve grant writing, more…
The UK Research Staff Association (UKRSA) are looking to connect early career researchers in the North West to share knowledge and experiences with each other and with UKRSA.
We are looking for an enthusiastic early career researcher with an interest in network building and career development policy to coordinate this project.
Not sure if this is for more…
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