Early Career Research Academy
The IDRIC Early Career Researchers Academy (ECRA) aims to enhance the impact of our researchers within the UK industrial decarbonisation community and ensure our researchers can thrive in a diverse range of career pathways that are critical for net zero.
The IDRIC ECRA is committed to supporting our early career researchers through a range of training and funding opportunities.
The programme will be designed and led by ECRs to ensure maximum impact. To be eligible for the ECRA, researchers must:
- Identify as an early career researcher (PhD student, PDRA or lecturer).
- Be within 10 years of graduating from their PhD.
- Work on a project related to industrial decarbonisation.
Click the button to sign up for IDRIC mailing list and click the ECRA option. By signing up to become an ECRA member, you will gain exclusive access to our Slack community, a platform to connect IDRIC ECRs. You will also receive our quarterly ECRA newsletter that is full of internal and external opportunities for ECRs. We source opportunities so you don’t have to.
ECRA Committee
The ECRA committee work with IDRIC’s Secretariat to help steer the ECRA programme and are involved in supporting the strategic direction of IDRIC. The ECRA chair is rotated quarterly and attends the Management Board meeting to ensure the ECR voice is embedded at the centre of IDRIC.
Abbas Abdulrafiu
University of Sussex
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Amir Badiee
University of Lincoln
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Amir Jahanbaksh
Heriot-Watt University
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Harriet Smith
University of Cardiff
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Nadine Moustafa
Imperial College London
IDRICECRA Community
ECRA Past Events & Resources
How to create effective academic posters
Are you presenting a poster at a conference soon? This presentation from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures is a useful resource to help provide you with hints and tips so that you can create effective academic posters.
Constructing Your Leadership Potential Workshop Series
PAST EVENT: This 2-part leadership workshop aimed to support early career researchers who are increasingly finding themselves in leadership positions or are interested in exploring who they are and who they want to be as a leader in the net zero and energy sector. The workshops ran on 12th & 19th November 2024 and were facilitated by Tesselle Development.
ECR Net Zero Conference 2024
PAST EVENT: For the second time, IDRIC and 13 other centres came together to host a conference specifically designed for early career researchers working on any aspect of Net Zero. The conference provided a range of skills-based workshops, thematic sessions, poster presentations and interesting keynotes.
Engaging with Industry Workshop
PAST EVENT: On May 15th 2023, IDRIC hosted a Skillfluence-led workshop to provide in-depth and specific training on how to successfully engage with industry stakeholders.
Career Coaching
PAST EVENT: Looking for the next step in your career? IDRIC are working with Sandrine Soubes from Tesselle Development to provide IDRIC’s early career researchers the opportunity to work with a professional and experienced career coach.
Humber Sandpit
IDRIC hosted a visit to the Humbercluster including site visits at Phillips66 and VPI Immingham. The site visits were followed by an interactive challenge sandpit workshop.
Industrial Decarbonisation Policy Debrief
IDRIC’s policy team gave an extensive policy debrief on all key aspects of industrial decarbonisation policy prior to IDRIC’s Annual Conference. Click the link to download the slides to further understanding of the current policy landscape.
Good Grant Guide Workshop
Led by AnchoredIn, the workshop provided a stepwise guide for applying for grant funding, particularly from InnovateUK.
ECR Net Zero Conference 2022
IDRIC co-hosted a highly successful conference attended by over 200 ECRs working on Net Zero aligned projects. Click the link for full session recordings.