
Early Career Researcher Connections
The future of genomics research relies on those early in their careers. The challenges they face have become more numerous and more difficult in recent decades. Some of the issues are specific to genomics research, but many are shared across disciplines.
In response to direction from our ECR members for action, we have reached out to the New Zealand Association of Scientists to work together in this space.
Below we describe some of the ideas generated so far. Please email our ECR Connector, Georgia Carson if you would like to be part of this activity.
Who are early career researchers? Many organisations have specific definitions. Sometimes, these definitions exclude people who would reasonably be considered early career researchers (e.g. post-grad students). For GFANZ, an early career researcher is anyone who self-identifies as one.
Mentorship
What that might look like.
Ideas Gathered
This is an unsorted list of ideas / issues we have gathered together. Please add to the list.
- Special topic workshops with a community / forum to follow up with. These should be done by subject matter experts, not necessarily scientists.
- The workshops could have some sort of certification / acredititation
- Ethics
- Professionalism
- Non-Academic science careers
- Course in writing by a science editor "How to tell a science story without jargon"
- C.V. writing (not just the standard NZ one)
- Grant writing
- Negotiating during hiring process
- Starting and running a business
- Intellectual Property
- Potential issue around student advisor not valuing them spending time on these things.