Early Career Researcher Programme 2018-2019
UCCRI Early Career Researcher Programme 2019/ 2020
The Early Career Researcher (ECR) Programme at UCCRI is designed to provide skill development and support to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers within an interdisciplinary and collaborative research environment.
The ECR programme is targeted at those whose research addresses conservation in the broadest sense which appeals to researchers across UCCRI’s network across all six Schools.
The programme is delivered through a variety of learning approaches and formats, emphasising the importance of interactive experience to promote active engagement for a deeper and enhanced cross-disciplinary understanding. By participating in these workshops, and the associated informal networking events, we provide participants opportunities to meet conservation-related researchers from other disciplines, creating the potential for closer collaboration in research.
UCCRI: Early Career Researcher Programme 2019/2020
These events are only available to all staff, post-docs and students across the University of Cambridge. Lunch is provided at all events.
Register for Workshops
| Thurs 17 Oct 11am - 12pm | Meet the Researchers All welcome to meet senior academics and fellow ECR's from within UCCRI's conservation network. There will be presentations from key academics followed by an overview of the research within UCCRI, followed by lunch. Speakers include: Dr David Aldridge, Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor Andrew Balmford, Professor David Coomes, Professor Bill Sutherland, Dr Chris Sandbrook and Professor Bhaskar Vira. |
Fri 1 Nov 11am - 12.30pm | Grant Writing Workshop - Professor Bhaskar Vira Professor Vira will provide an overview for those of you thinking about writing grant applications or wanting to prepare yourself for when the time comes. Lunch is provided. |
Thur 14 Nov 10.30am- 12.30pm | The Conversation: Writing for a Non-Academic Audience - Will de Freitas The Conversation is an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public. Professional editors work with academics and researchers to unlock their knowledge for use by the wider public. Will de Freitas, the Environment and Energy editor will run this session and will explain what content The Conversation looks for and how to publish there. |
Fri 10 Jan 12pm - 1.30pm | Exploring Natural Capital Using Social Media Data - Dr Yuan Pan Twitter is a source of abundant and free data that can be obtained for analysis. In this session, I will explain the methods that I used to collect data from Twitter, as well as the R codes used to clean and analyse the tweets. This will also include a brief introduction to sentiment analysis of text data. If you are interested in collecting data from Twitter for your own project, come along to this session. |
Fri 17 Jan 12pm - 1.30pm | SDG Tool - Dr Nicholas Wilkinson A very useful online tool that allows conservation professionals to look at how biodiversity projects can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goal targets. Is conservation one of a number of separate priorities, a pillar of sustainable development, or fundamental to human wellbeing? The SDGs can be enlisted in all these stories, but how should we use them, and how should we choose? |
Fri 31 Jan 12pm - 2pm | Conservation and Human Behaviour - Dr Claudia Schneider This session will explore the psychology underlying human behaviour generally as well as applied to the context of conservation, such as barriers that prevent and levers that can motivate pro-environmental action. |
Fri 14 Feb 12pm - 2pm | Q Method - Dr Rachel Carmenta & Dr Karen Wong-Perez ‘Q method’ allows systematic semi-quantitative analysis of perspectives. This workshop will give a brief history of Q and its strengths, limitations, and application in conservation. |
Fri 28 Feb 12pm - 1pm | Policy Analysis - Professor Laura Diaz Anadon Professor Diaz Anadon will lead this workshop on how to examine and evaluate the available options to implement the goals generated by government policies and policy makers. |
Fri 24 April 12pm - 2pm | R Shiny - Dr Tom Swinfield Shiny is an R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. You can host standalone apps on a webpage or embed them in R Markdown documents. |
Fri 8 May 12pm - 2pm | Media Training - Mrs Shelley Boulderson, Dr Louise Walsh, Mrs Jaqueline Garget Training on how to deliver key messages to the public clearly and concisely. |
Thurs 21 May 12pm - 3.30pm | Career Pathways Workshop Discuss how skills learned during your PhD can help plan your next career step. Explore various aspects of career development within and outside academia. Get advice on seeking funding & applying for jobs. Discuss if you unsure whether to pursue an academic career or enter a different sector? Speakers from different sectors will share their journey taken after their PhD’s. Lunch and Networking included |
| Fri 5 June 12pm - 2pm | ECR Summer Party |