Boyd Orr Early Career Researchers meeting
Event Information
Event description
Description
The University of Glasgow’s Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health is setting up a new group, tentatively named the Boyd Orr early career researchers group. If you're interested in joining us at our first meeting, please sign up here to help us plan catering.
What are we? We are an interdisciplinary and cross-departmental group interested in the clinical and ecological health of human and animal populations and ecosystems.
Who are we? PhD students, masters students, and postdocs.
Why join us? Our aims are to foster the exchange of knowledge and experience from interdisciplinary fields amongst early career researchers.
Agenda
- Guest speakers: Richard Reeve and Louise Matthews will join us in discussing The Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health. The history of the organisation, their research philosophy, and how it has benefited their members.
- Introductions
- Why are we here? - to promote research? to talk about science? to network? to engage in journal club? any other ideas?
- Who are we? - early career, junior researchers? We need a name.
- When should we meet? - how often and for how long?
- How can we get more members? - who should we target, why and how?
- Drinks in the Gilchrist / brainstorming session
Organisers: Sonia Mitchell (s.mitchell.2@research.gla.ac.uk) and Nardus Mollentze (t.mollentze.1@glasgow.ac.uk)
