As we plan for the C-DICE Annual Conference 2024, it seems an opportune time to reflect on our mission to make the 2023 National PostDoc Conference (NPDC23) that C-DICE hosted last autumn, as inclusive and diverse as possible. Our aim…
The Centre for Postdoctoral Development in Cities, Infrastructure and Energy (C-DICE) is a four-year, Research England funded programme to support the development of postdoctoral researchers, in both career development and sector specific training. As such, the mobility of the research…
A C-DICE research sandpit is an opportunity for postdoctoral researchers to learn how to create high quality research proposals with expert guidance, and then apply what they have learnt to create a research proposal as part of an interdisciplinary team.…
C-DICE Director, Dr Kathryn North, has recently been appointed as Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (APVC) for Climate Change and Net Zero at Loughborough University. In this blog, Kathryn reflects on her career journey to date and how making and taking opportunities…
Dr Guillaume Zante participated in the Full Switch™- Research Consultancy Programme - an innovative solution for researchers to gain work experience as research consultants with the full support, training, coaching and feedback of the Code-Switch Team. The Code-Switch Consultants (CSC)…
Dr Thomas Fender participated in the Career Coaching for Postdoctoral Researchers - a six week long bespoke career coaching programme to lead researchers through the spectrum of career activities and enable them to make informed career choices and decisions. He…
A secondment is a temporary transfer of a postdoctoral research fellow or early career researcher to another workplace or post. Here at C-DICE, secondments are generally 1-6 month projects that provide an opportunity for researchers to take a break from…
In its simplest form, a research sandpit is a means to develop novel research. But for postdocs, it’s much more than that. Being part of a sandpit not only allows you to learn how to create a research proposal that…
As far as playing neurodiversity bingo goes, I nearly have a full house. I’m dyslexic (why is that word so hard to spell?), dyspraxic, and I am on the autistic spectrum. I thought neurodiversity awareness week would be a good…
It can be quite easy, as a researcher, not to stray too far from our main disciplinary area but the danger of this is that we don’t see the bigger picture, or the place our research has in the wider…