Always wanted to know how to most effectively build your career in public health? Then join us for the Early Career Researcher pre-conference event to the UK Public Health Science conference 2021! This year’s ECR event focuses on career progression for ECRs. We’ll be sharing our top tips for a successful career both in and outside of academia.
Date: Thu 25 November
Venue: virtual meeting via Zoom
How to attend: This event is open to all registered delegates of the UK Public Health Science conference 2021. You can register for the conference via the HG3 booking website.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The UK Public Health Science ECR event organising committee.
Programme
13.00 Welcome and housekeeping
13.05 Welcome address by Professor Ashley Adamson
Director of NIHR School of Public Health Research
13.15 Experiences working in global health by Dr Julianne Williams
Technical Officer at World Health Organization
13.45 Learning from mistakes – how to successfully apply for grants as a postdoc by Dr Georgia Black
Principal Research Fellow at Department of Applied Health Research, UCL
14.15 Comfort break
14.30 The changing expectations of progressing from ECR to senior researcher and beyond by Professor Rob Aldridge
Professor of Public Health Data Science at the Institute of Health Informatics, UCL
15.00 Navigating career uncertainty like an entrepreneur by Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi
Transformational Coach and Consultant and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Epidemiology and Public Health Department, University College London.
15.30 Closing
15.35 – 16.00 Themed network sessions in breakout rooms