Supporting our Early Career Researchers at University of Brighton

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Research Momentum 2025: Looking back!

Uschi Klein spent June and July this summer doing archival research in the context of their Visegrad Fellowship at the Blinken Open Society Archive in Budapest working on the broader topic of “Everyday media practices of resistance in Communist Romania… Continue Reading →

Research Momentum 2025: Developing Models

Shirin Saberianpour is developing a Novel In Vitro 3D Vascularised Osteoid Model by SAOS-2 Osteoblasts and Human Umbilical Vascular Endothelial Cells co-cultured in 2D conditions on the Synthetic Biomimetic Substrate PhenoDrive.

Research Momentum 2025: Bones go bright!

Lucie Bourne has had a busy summer writing a grant, preparing scientific papers and supporting students on work experience. She’s also spent time in the lab doing some histology – staining tissue samples with special dyes to look at it’s… Continue Reading →

Postdoc Appreciation Week: 15-19 September 2025 

Book your events now for National Postdoc Appreciation Week (15-19 September 2025). The annual Postdoc Appreciation Week is an opportunity to highlight the contribution our postdocs make, celebrate their achievements and show appreciation and support.   What is  a postdoc? Postdocs work… Continue Reading →

Research Momentum 2025: Understanding the Impact of Cell Ageing (Senescence) on Bioartificial Liver Support Devices

Liver failure is a life-threatening condition that occurs when the liver can no longer carry out vital functions like protein production and detoxification. This leads to a dangerous build-up of substances such as ammonia and bilirubin, which can cause severe… Continue Reading →

Research Momentum 2025: Summer is pure inspiration

Barbara Grabher took the opportunity to present her research on tour guiding and human-environmental relationships at the ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research) Conference 2025 in Vila-Seca, Spain and the meeting of the Special Interest Group for… Continue Reading →

Newsletter December 22

Welcome to news and updates for our UoB ECR community. It gives me great pleasure to put together this first newsletter in my role as ECR Ambassador. I hope that you find the information within this useful, and it inspires… Continue Reading →

Book your place at the Research and Enterprise Conference

  Secure your place at the biennial conference, to be held in Huxley Building, Moulsecoomb, on Friday 5 July. The event will take place in Huxley 300 and will run from 9am. Refreshments will be provided.    We will have… Continue Reading →

Spotlight on our ECR from the School of Architecture and Design – Dr Alessandro Zambelli

One of the pressures and pleasures of being an early career researcher and the ECR Network representative for the School of Architecture and Design is balancing the leadership implied by the latter and the need to continue doing actual research… Continue Reading →

Getting to know your ECR Ambassador

Hi my name is Annie Ockelford and I am the new Early Career Ambassador for the University.  Since my PhD Viva in 2012, I have completed two postdocs (at Loughborough University and the University of Hull), and have progressed into… Continue Reading →

ECR Conference Future’s Bright – 20 September 2018

Booking for the annual ECR conference Future’s Bright is now open. I hope to see you all there! The conference programme and booking here  

Get involved with the research themes of the Brighton Futures

Are you familiar with the Brighton Futures yet? There are five themes – Connected, Creative, Healthy, Radical and Responsible, and the idea is that researchers join working teams of these research themes to develop collaborative bids, publications and so on…. Continue Reading →

International Research and Enterprise Event, 25 June

I look forward to the International Research & Enterprise Event later this month, especially because I will have the opportunity to chair a session of interest to ECRs. At 5pm there will be a celebration of current international PhD students… Continue Reading →

Rising Stars 2018

After lots of anticipation, the winners of the sixth round of the internally-funded Rising Stars Initiative have been announced today. Awards of up to £10,000 each are being granted to assist researchers in gaining experience of managing and leading their… Continue Reading →

Free networking lunches

Do sign up for free networking lunches hosted by Brighton Futures. Brighton Futures are committed to building cross-disciplinary research and enterprise capacity, promoting collaborations with external partners and encouraging responses to funding calls. The five themes are: Connected, Creative, Healthy, Radical and Responsible. Networking lunches offer informal… Continue Reading →

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