By Ciarán Gibson   This week I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak with Vivian Petersen Wagner, a research fellow at the University of Sheffield’s School of Dentistry. Vivian successfully applied for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship in 2020 and after an initial delay due to the pandemic, she started her fellowship in October 2020. Hailing from Porto Alegre in Brazil, Vivian has developed her career in her home...

By Ciarán Gibson   Dr Leila Moura is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow based at Queen’s University Belfast who first came to this corner of the UK through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in 2016. I recently had the pleasure to speak with Dr Moura and hear her story. From training as a chemist in her home country of Portugal. Through challenges she faced when she first went abroad. To how she secured her tenure-track...

by Ciarán Gibson Earlier in February, the EURAXESS UK team invited Dr Brian Cahill to deliver an online workshop to support early career researchers in writing a successful grant proposal. During the workshop Dr Cahill, who is Grant Manager at the Technische Informationsbibliothek in Hannover, Germany, shared his insider knowledge with over twenty researchers from around the globe, giving them invaluable advice about how they can make their...

As part of the agreement reached between the UK and the EU, the UK has announced that it will associate to Horizon Europe. Association will give UK scientists, researchers and businesses access to funding under the programme on terms equivalent to those in EU countries. UK association cannot begin before the Horizon Europe regulations have been finalised by the EU. The UK also reached agreement with the EU and Euratom to associate to the next...

We are delighted to announce that we are accepting applications from early-career researchers for a virtual workshop, hosted by Dr Brian Cahill, a Grant Manager at the Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology. The interactive workshop, which takes place virtually on Monday 15 February from 10am to 12.30pm GMT, is aimed at researchers in the early stages of their career who want to write effective grant proposals.  Dr Cahill will...

Join over 16,000 universities, research organisations and other employers from around the globe on the EURAXESS portal where you can reach the world's best research talent. As an employer, the EURAXESS portal allows you to publish your vacancies completely free of charge. With over 50,000 registered researchers, find the perfect match for your job by using EURAXESS. Want to learn how you can get started? In this video you will find out all you...

Dr Shay Rotics was awarded a two-year Blavatnik Postdoctoral Fellowship, given to distinguished Israeli PhD students working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to study at the University of Cambridge. Dr Rotics told us about his experience and how the Fellowship has helped his career: “After studying a BA in computer science and working in the industry, I decided to pursue my passion for zoology and completed a PhD in animal...

Sandy Sparks, Learning and Development Consultant at the University of Warwick and Trainer for the British Council Researcher Connect programme, gives her best advice for finding and maintaining a collaboration.  Think about how the collaboration will meet your needs Maybe you're an early-career researcher who wants to be a mid-career researcher. Maybe you want to go into research-led teaching, or policy. When you are clear about your needs, you...

Spending time on a research visit in a different country can provide many benefits to a researcher's career. These experiences can open up access to expertise, facilities and research environments that help to broaden networks and gain insight into different ways of working.  Dr Enitome Bafor won a scholarship for a place at the University of Strathclyde to study a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She moved over from Nigeria with her three...

Collaborating internationally or spending time on a research visit abroad can be very beneficial to a researcher's career and personal development. Dr Fabiana Gondim Mariutti, from Brazil, was a PhD researcher at Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom. Funded by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior/Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education), she chose to study a PhD course in...