VIRTUAL IAS Network for Early Career Academics

Please, join the event here

The IAS is launching a network to bring together early-career academics (ECAs) working in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) across UCL. Our working definition of AHSS is capacious: if your work involves AHSS approaches, feel free to join (even if you’re based in a primarily STEM faculty). Our definition of early-career is similarly broad: the network is open to PhD candidates at any stage and to all postdocs and lecturers (anyone on grade 7 or grade 8).

Our aims are to integrate dedicated AHSS intellectual content with cross-disciplinary intellectual exchange, skills development and career guidance. And, not least, to offer opportunities for sociability and informal sharing of ideas and experiences. The network will be based on a series of events, including workshops on writing and on crossing boundaries of all kinds. Over time, it can evolve in response to the suggestions and contributions of participants.

At the launch, we will take half an hour to introduce you to key contacts in the IAS, the Joint Faculties and the wider UCL community. We will then go into break-out groups, which will be loosely organised around research themes, so that you can get to know people with similar intellectual interests, before moving to a short concluding discussion about how you would like the network to develop.

Please send us an email (p.llombart@ucl.ac.uk) indicating one or more of the following thematic discussions you would be interested to join:

• Music

• Growth

• Migration

• Gender and feminism

• Health

• Knowledge equity

• Race and racialisation

• Anthropocene

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need assistance on the day, and follow this FAQ link for more information and to read our virtual events code of conduct. All of our events are free, but you can support the IAS here.