It's all about net-zero!

Our PhD students and Early Career Researchers took part in a conference in June 2020

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Our PhD students and Early Career Researchers took part in a week of events, presentations and debates. The conference has taken place and this is a report of the week's activities.

Early Career Researcher conference - 'It's All About Net Zero"
A summary of the conference along with tesimonials from a number of participants can be found below:

ERA ECR Conference Summary

This year's ERA Early Career Researcher conference was called “It’s All About Net Zero” and took place from 15 – 19 June 2020.

Events included a virtual poster gallery that you will be able to access throughout the week, and a variety of virtual talks, and panel discussions.

Check out the programme on the right hand side. 

We had an exciting array of guest speakers, and you will find full details in the delegate pack.


Download the Delegate Pack

The delegate pack had details of all of the speakers and activities

Download the delegate pack here

View the presentations and videos from the week

Below are the presentations and videos from the week's events and activities. Your opportunity to catch up with anything that you might have missed.

Monday 15th June - Slide pack for the conference opening, keynote presentations and Q&A session

Monday 15th June - Slide pack for conference opening, keynote presentations and Q&A session

Monday 15th June - Video from the conference opening 

Tuesday 16th June - 3 Minute Thesis presentations 

Video of the 3 Minute Thesis presentations

Wenesday 17th June - Post-doctoral researcher talks

Video of the post-doctoral researcher talks

Thursday 18th June - Panel discussion and Pub PhD

Video of Panel discussion “Main barriers to achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2050”

Video of Pub PhDs

Friday 19th June - Energy100 challenge presentations & closing remarks and prize giving

View the Energy 100 challenge presentations video here

Related presentations

From PhD to PostDoc, a presentation by former ERA PhD student Richard Sieff

RA Early Career Research conference - it's all about net-zero
Mon 15th June 10am-12pm Opening Address and Expert Guest Speakers
Tues 16 June 10am - 12pm Three-minute thesis style presentations
Weds 17 June 10am - 12pm Post-doctoral researcher talks
Weds 17 June 7pm-9pm Quiz Night
Thurs 18 June 10 am – 11:30am Panel discussion “Main barriers to achieving Net Zero Carbon by 2050”
Thursday 18 June 7pm Pub PhDs!
Friday 19 June 10am - 12pm Energy100 challenge presentations
Friday 19 June 12pm Closing remarks and Prize Giving

Visit our Virtual Poster Gallery!

Our students have been working hard on producing posters of their work, and we are proud to display these in our Virtual Poster Gallery below. 

As you click on each poster in the Gallery it will take you into the poster, which also includes a detailed written description as well. Please click on the 'Full Screen' icon at the bottom of the slide-show, in order to view the slides at a large size.

 

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