The University of Limerick’s Research Strategy 2022-2027, ‘Wisdom for Action’, outlines the need to build a ‘responsive and supportive research ecosystem which attracts and supports talented individuals and groups to excel in their fields’. A related objective of the strategy is investing in an ‘excellent, agile, responsive, and efficient research support ecosystem which sits at the core of UL activity to deliver our research-led ambitions’.This Research Week 2024 event considers how this research ecosystem can be maximised by interrogating the professional development of, and for, early career researchers from their time in undergraduate and postgraduate studies to postdoctoral appointments to securing assistant professor posts. Representatives from each phase of the researcher continuum will share realities of their experiences across the continuum in a panel format, highlighting and celebrating instances that encouraged them to be an invested member of the proposed research ecosystem. This includes undergraduate research internship students, postgraduate researchers, postdoctoral fellows, assistant professors, and PhD supervisor and postdoctoral mentor. Consideration will be given to the reality that the experiences and supports targeted in only a specific phase of the early career researcher continuum (that is, siloed from other phases) has on individuals investing (or not) in the proposed research ecosystem. A representation of colleagues who support early career researchers, such as those from the Doctoral College, Human Resources, Library, Office Vice President Research, and Assistant Deans of Research, will share what resources and practices they use to encourage synergies across the different phases of the early career researchers’ research ecosystem. The event will take place on Monday, April 29th from 9.30am to 11am in ERB001 (Engineering Research Building). We look forward to welcoming all interested in, and invested in, supporting a positive and inclusive research environment. Registration is available here: https://t.ly/wTw8E |
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Ann MacPhail is Associate Vice President Doctoral College at UL. Contact: ann.macphail@ul.ie; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1875-0582; Follow on Twitter: @AnnMacPhail1 Jenna R Lorusso is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellow in the PESS department at UL. Contact: jenna.lorusso@ul.ie; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3583-6417; Follow on Twitter: @JennaRLorusso Orla Power-Grant is the Research Funding Officer for the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences at UL. Contact: Orla.Power@ul.ie; ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5771-9839; Follow on Twitter: @Power_GrantO |
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