Early and Mid-career Researchers

The early & mid-career researchers (EMCR) group is open to everyone in the department. Most EMCRs are grade 6-8 and in an academic or research related role. The group meets several times a year to discuss topics of importance, hold Q&A with senior staff, access development and training opportunities, as well as meet socially!

Events

Date	Event	Time	Location

Useful Resources

Department A-Z of policies of particular interest to EMCRs may be the Open Ended Contracts, Staff Training Policy and Bridging Funding
Personal Development Reviews including a list of Grade Descriptions
Opportunities to join Departmental working groups e.g. Read more about the opportunity to join the MSD EDI Steering Group
Career development opportunities
Support for securing funding: Grants and funding section of the intranet.
Support for wellbeing
Researcher Hub

The Hub team website has many useful resources for you. Find out more about your research staff representative, the Concordat to Support Career Development for Researchers, college association opportunities and more.

EMCR Taskforce

The EMCR Taskforce was convened in 2022 to produce a discrete, time limited piece of work, in recognition that career progression for EMCRs within NDPCHS has arisen as an area requiring attention through a number of different sources.

The report provided: a survey of EMCR needs, a review of relevant documents including those at the university, department, and division level, funder policies, and successful Athena Swan gold applications; and a list of proposed actions.

The response to the report was shared with the EMCR Group in a meeting in September 2023 and can be viewed here.

Athena Swan – EMCR Priorities

Gold application and action plan in full can be found here: https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/files/about/athena-swan-gold-application-2023

Other relevant groups

Oxford Research Staff Society - www.ox.ac.uk/oxrss

Early career qualitative health researcher network - join their newsletter mailing list here.

To be added to the mailing list email emcr@phc.ox.ac.uk

10 career development days

All Researchers in our department are entitled to ten days of professional development time (pro rata) per year, as an opportunity to gain skills and experience to support your future career.

Here are some ways that you can use your ten days:

Be a department or faculty Researcher Representative or contribute to organising activities for researchers in your local environment
Contribute to peer-review in journals and funding bodies
Join a working group or a committee within your department/faculty or division
Organise seminars, conferences or networking events
Participate in Public and Policy Engagement activities - plan your engagement and impact
Shadow a colleague at work
Take on a leadership/service role in research bodies and societies 
Take on an informal supervision of a student or colleague for a short period of time
Write your CV - view guidance on updating your CV and developing a narrative CV
Work on a funding application (independent, co-I, collaborative) -  find research fellowship and funding sources
Consider commercialising the output of your research through licensing, spinouts or consultancy activity - Oxford University Innovation