The funded period for the Centre for Postdoctoral Development in Infrastructure, Cities and Energy (C-DICE) has now come to an end, and we want to extend our deepest thanks to everyone who has contributed to the success of the Centre over the past five years.…
A C‑DICE networking grant awarded to Dr Rodolfo Teixeira (Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University) enabled a UK–Brazil collaboration on “Sustainable Manufacturing Inspired by Tropical Biodiversity,” culminating in a new peer‑reviewed paper on greener, nature‑inspired chemical manufacturing. The research demonstrates that pyrene-4,5-dione…
C‑DICE has published The Personal Costs of Researcher Precarity: A C‑DICE National Survey of Researchers on Fixed‑Term Contracts in UK Higher Education. The survey finds the personal and financial costs of researcher precarity stack up over time. The UK‑wide survey…
The latest newsletter shares the session recordings from Driving research excellence through supporting postdoctoral talent, the C-DICE & UKRI senior leaders workshop held in York on 6 November 2025. This high‑level workshop brought together UKRI, C‑DICE, Vitae, and pioneering university programmes from Cambridge, Leeds,…
C-DICE's UK‑wide survey of 256 researchers on fixed‑term contracts lifts the lid on something many already feel but rarely see quantified: precarity isn’t a brief stepping stone - it often becomes a repeating pattern across roles and institutions. Researchers reported…
Session recordings are now available online for those who could not attend or wish to revisit key discussions from Driving research excellence through supporting postdoctoral talent, the C-DICE & UKRI senior leaders workshop in York on 6 November 2025. This high‑level workshop brought together…
A new paper, Natural Ventilation Reduces Cooking-Related PM2.5 Peaks Indoors, has been published in ACS ES&T Air (American Chemical Society), led by first author Dr Yizhou Su (University of Birmingham). The work stems from a C‑DICE networking/travel grant awarded to…
A new publication Research Culture: Going beyond compliance to build on the Researcher Development Concordat is published in eLife as a result of a Concordat online round table hosted by C-DICE as part of the National Postdoc Conference in 2023.…
The latest newsletter is packed with training, development, and celebration across our community. A new REDS Conference blog highlights the C‑DICE Net zero skills framework, expanding on research presented by postdoctoral fellow Swathi Mukundan and showing how the framework supports…
A new blog post exploring the C‑DICE Net Zero Skills Framework has just been published on the Researcher Education and Development Scholarship (REDS) Conference website. Authored by C-DICE team members Sarah Gomes, Sharon Henson, Kathryn North, Swathi Mukundan and researcher…