Early Career Researchers

UKCCSRC Early Career Researcher (ECR) Programme

The UKCCSRC ECR programme provides training, funding and networking opportunities for our ECR members, supporting researchers training for academic careers, and for futures outside academia. We run development Awaydays, ECR funding calls and we facilitate interdisciplinary networking and other ECR activities.

Current and past opportunities and events 

Click on the tiles below, or the options in the dropdown menu at the top of the page, to see both current and past opportunities/events.  Current opportunities/events are always announced through our newsletter, ECR Bulletin and LinkedIn account, so make sure you’re signed up for those!

Become a member

ECR membership is open to postgraduate research students, post-doctoral staff and new lecturers working in a field related to CCS. By becoming an ECR member you’ll have access to the programme, and you can sign up to the mailing list to receive the newsletter and specific ECR bulletins letting you know what’s going on. You can opt to have your biography in the Members Directory. Find out more about UKCCSRC ECR eligibility criteria and apply for membership.

Attend our events

The UKCCSRC runs two conferences a year and a regular web series.  We also run ECR specific events and training days, including in-person Awaydays, and we reserve places for ECRs at many of our workshops. As well as networking with peers, attending our events gives you the chance to meet senior academics in the field, and industry and government employers. Our events cover topics across the whole CCS landscape, and to make sure our ECRs are able to attend we often open the ECR Meeting Fund.

Create content for us

Many of our ECR community contribute to our blogs, newsletter and social media channels.  We’d love to hear about your research and share it with our members! Get in touch with us at info@ukccsrc.ac.uk.  We have also delivered ECR communications training and held video and visual communications competitions.  Our conferences include an ECR Poster Prize competition and our Awaydays often include the chance to present your own research.