C-DICE Director, Dr Kathryn North, has recently been appointed as Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (APVC) for Climate Change and Net Zero at Loughborough University. In this blog, Kathryn reflects on her career journey to date and how making and taking opportunities…
Dr Guillaume Zante participated in the Full Switch™- Research Consultancy Programme - an innovative solution for researchers to gain work experience as research consultants with the full support, training, coaching and feedback of the Code-Switch Team. The Code-Switch Consultants (CSC)…
Dr Thomas Fender participated in the Career Coaching for Postdoctoral Researchers - a six week long bespoke career coaching programme to lead researchers through the spectrum of career activities and enable them to make informed career choices and decisions. He…
A secondment is a temporary transfer of a postdoctoral research fellow or early career researcher to another workplace or post. Here at C-DICE, secondments are generally 1-6 month projects that provide an opportunity for researchers to take a break from…
In its simplest form, a research sandpit is a means to develop novel research. But for postdocs, it’s much more than that. Being part of a sandpit not only allows you to learn how to create a research proposal that…
As far as playing neurodiversity bingo goes, I nearly have a full house. I’m dyslexic (why is that word so hard to spell?), dyspraxic, and I am on the autistic spectrum. I thought neurodiversity awareness week would be a good…
It can be quite easy, as a researcher, not to stray too far from our main disciplinary area but the danger of this is that we don’t see the bigger picture, or the place our research has in the wider…
C-DICE offer micro-credentials for some of its training and development activities. These are an excellent way to demonstrate your knowledge, skills and competences for a job application or a professional development review. What are micro-credentials? Micro-credentials are digital certificates (often…
Co-created by the BECCS-BEIS funded project team and C-DICE, this bespoke workshop bought together an array of stakeholders as part of a cross-project collaboration with multiple audiences working in an interdisciplinary way. The purpose of the event was to critically…
Dr Niamh Fox participated in the Video Impact workshop hosted by C-DICE in May 2022. Read Part 1. Since taking part in the Video Impact training workshops offered by C-DICE, I have put together several videos on my smartphone to…