Newcomers Research Week: training our next generation of researchers

We are thinking ahead to the new year, specifically about how researcher development is at the heart of everything we in the Research Support team do to support the success of the entire research ecosystem at Essex, including our early career researchers.

It's been a busy Autumn Term for our team, as we’ve continued to support our researchers in topics such as publishing, open research, and research visibility. Next term we'll be starting the year with Newcomers Research Week (6 to 10 January), a week-long programme of free online training sessions aimed at supporting early career researchers, but open to any researcher, student or staff member at Essex. 

Research Support 

The Research Support team sits within the Academic and Research Support section of Library and Cultural Services and delivers programmes and support around publishing, open research, research visibility and more, supporting skills development for researchers at all levels.

The team also runs programmes for students and early career researchers through the Essex Student Journal and Newcomers Network.

Newcomers and Newcomers Research Week

Newcomers is our Network for Early Career Essex Researchers, so the content of all Newcomers sessions is aimed to be introductory. However, any researcher, or staff member supporting researchers, is welcome to join. The Newcomers team’s flagship event is Newcomers Research Week, which is run annually. 

32 sessions will be delivered online from 6 to 10 January. The sessions are specifically for researchers at Essex, and are all free to attend and hosted online. Bookings are already live. 

This will be the ninth Newcomers Research Week, but that hasn’t stopped colleagues across Essex from the Library, REO, UK Data Archive, and Communications and External Relations from developing new sessions, including:

• Introduction to REF 2029
• Copyright and your PhD thesis
• Trusted research: an introduction to national security
• How to write for The Conversation
• Evaluation services: applying your skills and expertise to deliver evaluation projects

Alongside this new content, we also have updated versions of many previously well received sessions, including:

• Grant writing essentials
• Introduction to the UK Data Service
• Making information inclusive
• Ethics in public engagement
• Introduction to Open Access

Whether you are an early career researcher, a new starter at Essex, or simply someone who’d like a refresher in some key research topics, book onto as many Newcomers Research Week sessions as you like!

If you’d like to be the first to know about future events, opportunities, and discussions aimed at Early Career Researchers, PhD Students, Post Docs, and new starters at Essex, sign up to the Newcomers mailing list.

If you have any questions about Newcomers Research Week, please email the team via newcomers@essex.ac.uk.