ECR Seminars
2025
26th Feb - Writing for Purpose - Workshop
Communication is an essential part of any scientific career. If you haven't told anyone what you did, and what you found, have you truly done the science? It is tempting to think we only have to dryly communicate exact technical details to other scientists. In reality we regularly have to communicate our ideas packaged for a wide range of people, experience, and purposes. In this short workshop we will look at how you can tailor and refine your writing for frequently encountered purposes: papers, grants, ethics, participant information, and public engagement.
In this interactive session, we will see real examples of writing for different purposes, find out how editing can help you get there iteratively, and finally try it out live with other participants.
This session was not recorded.
2024
21st Feb - Careers (in and out of academia)
A selection of speakers discussing their varied career paths, both in and out of academia. Our speakers were:
Nargis Begum - Senior Clinical Trial Manager at Worldwide Clinical Trials
Kerri Dempster - Patient, Carer, and Public Involvement and Engagement Manager at NIHR
Will Clarke - MR Spectropscopist at WIN
Nicole Eichert - Postdoctoral Fellow at WIN
22nd May - Grant Applications
Speakers: Charlie Stagg, Karla Miller, Tom Okell, Nele Demeyere
Join our session on grant applications in which our panel of WIN’s in-house experts will be discussing how to effectively apply for funding. With experience across a range of funding panels, including NIHR, charities, engineering, and the MRC, the panel will provide a solid overview of how to maximise your chances of successfully applying for grants.
This session was not recorded
16th Oct - Academic Career Progression
This ECR training session discussed academic career progression, with particular focus on the process of applying for Associate Professor, and on pathways that combine teaching and research at Oxford.
This was an informal question/answer session, with panel members including Aaron Hess, Ludovica Griffanti and Laurence Hunt.
This session was not recorded.
2023
May 31st – Coaching for Academics
Coaching is a conversational skill that helps in identifying and achieving personal and professional goals. Coaching is often taught in leadership courses for researchers as an essential skill to facilitate collaborations and problem solving.
In this session for the OxCIN, participants learned what coaching is and got a taster of being a coach or coachee.
This session was not recorded.
November 16th – How to use social media effectively?
Social media platforms are increasingly intertwined with work. Many researchers successfully enhance their career prospects by building strong social media profiles, whether to boost their options for continuing in academia, or to explore pathways beyond. In this session we covered key principles for using social media effectively, and tips on how to optimise social media presence.
This session can be found here [SSO Required]
2022
March 9th – How to Write a Paper
June 10th – On Failure
November 23rd – Careers Outside of Academia: NHS Careers
We welcomed 3 OxCIN alumni who came to talk about their varied careers paths. All received their DPhils from OxCIN before going on to very different career paths: Head of Data and Analysis at the UK Government Organisation for Standards in Education (Ofsted), NHS Neurophysiologist, and Senior Medical Physicist in Magnetic Resonance at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
2021
January – Time management
February – Conflict prevention and stress management
March – OxCIN Wednesday Careers
April – Teaching in Oxford - How, why and when?
May - Presentation skills
June – Grants- an introduction
September – Developing IP
November - Public engagement