Postdoctoral Researcher Forum
The Postdoctoral Researcher Forum is a joint initiative of CRASSH and the Schools of Humanities & Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities to support the post doctoral community in Cambridge. The aim of the forum is to encourage interaction between researchers, to address some of their concerns through a series of targeted workshops and to provide a web resource to support the research interests and career development of members of the postdoctoral research community in Cambridge.
Events for postdocs at CRASSH
Lent 2012
Dr Samuel Llano (MML) at the Postdoctoral Research Seminar
Dr Sonja Klinsky (Land Economy) at the Postdoctoral Research Seminar.
Dr Bridget Vincent (English) at the Postdoctoral Research Seminar.
Dr Agnes Simon (History) at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar.
Dr Gethin Rees (Divinity) at the CRASSH Postdoctoral Research Seminar.
Postdoctoral Research Seminars
These seminars provide a space for postdocs in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to find new audiences for their work and share ideas across disciplinary boundaries. The seminars aim to create a supportive environment in which postdocs can critique each others’ work in progress, rather than acting as another venue for polished papers. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please contact Ildiko Csengei.
For more information and past presentations, please click here.
Career-related events
Some of these are jointly organised with the Careers Service. The Careers Service's own events for Postdocs and Researchers in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities can be found here (Raven log-in required), together with a lot of useful information and resources from previous events.
Click here for this term's events.
Click here for details of past events.
Web resources
Each of the termly workshops organised by the Postdoc Forum during 2009-10 provides the theme for a series of webpages with useful resources for the Cambridge postdoc community. The Michaelmas 2009 workshop on 'Academic Careers and the recession' is the inspiration for a collection of career-related resources, including information on funding opportunities, support for researchers, and mapping research careers.
The Lent term 2010 workshop 'From Impact to Engagement' now has a page of links and resources covering the debates over measuring research impact, public engagement and working with the media.
In Easter term 2010 we discussed 'Who owns Research?', which now has its own page of information and links.
Contacting us
- The Early Career Researchers mailing list is a forum for sharing news, events, seminars, job or training opportunities, with other members of the postdoc community in Cambridge. List members may post anything that might be of interest to other postdoc researchers in Cambridge. Sign up to the list here.
- We welcome suggestions and proposals for events or other ways of supporting postdoctoral researchers, whether on funded research projects or otherwise. Contact Dr Ildiko Csengei, co-ordinator of the postdoc researcher forum.
