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The purpose of MAPS Early Career Researchers(ECRs) Forum is to lead on the provision of support for the wellbeing, professional development and career progress of ECRs.
The purpose of MAPS Early Career Researchers(ECRs) Forum is to lead on the provision of support for the wellbeing, professional development and career progress of ECRs, including postgraduate research degree students, postdoctoral researchers and academics up to 6 years after PhD award, or anyone who considers themselves as an ECR.
Who we are and what we do
Funding and Fellowships
BEAMS Research Coordination Office Fellowships List
The BEAMS RCO can help you to identify research-funding opportunities, develop strong research proposals, and develop grant-writing skills. You can also book one-to-one appointment for proposal review and mock interviews. See their Fellowships List. See also the other two research coordination offices if your research area strides across the schools: SLMS (Law, Arts and Humanities, Education) and LMS (Life and Medical Sciences.
MAPS Faculty Funding Alert Bulletins for ECRs
These are monthly newsletters providing news on funding opportunities, fellowships, training and events for MAPS ECRs. They are published every other month and distributed by your departmental ECR Leads or Reps. The Faculty Research Coodination team also publish monthly Funding Alert Bulletins (FABs) for all MAPS colleagues and they are available on the faculty intranet and circulated by your departmental research support officers every month.
Early Career Researchers Central
Funding schemes and fellowships both in and outside of the UK for ECRs.
For more information on funding opportunities and research support, please click on Research Funding and Support.
Networking
The Festival of Early Stage Researchers (FESR) across UCL
UCL holds an annual week-long festival, the Festival of Early Stage Researchers (FESR) to celebrate the invaluable contribution from UCL’s early-stage research community to research and innovation. It is usually held in the spring term every year. For more information and access the recorded talks and workshops, please visit the UCL FESR webpage.
Connect with Other ECR Groups
There are many ECR networks within and outside of UCL. You can join the networks which may be relevant to you depending on your research area. We have listed just a few here for your reference.
- UCL Environment Domain Early-Career Network (EDEN)
- UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain’s Early Career Researcher Network
- UCL Microbiology Domain Early Career Researchers
- UCL Division of Medicine Early Career Researchers Network
- UCL Division of Biosciences Early Career Researchers Portal
- UCL Institute of Education Early Career Network (ECN)
- UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences ECR Portal
- British Academy ECR Network
- National Cancer Research Institute ECR Forum
- UK Energy Research Centre ECR Forum