Weekly round-up #63

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Weekly round-up #63

 

This week we've been celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We are, of course, hugely proud to be led by Profs Helen McShane & Helen Fletcher, managed by Sam(antha) Vermaak, and that 47.5% of our members are female scientists. You can find out more about their research (and that of our male members as well!) on our members pages.

 

Our 2019 mentoring call is now open for our Associate (and early PI Investigator) members. In each mentoring call we aim to place around 10 up-and-coming post-docs/early PIs with Senior Scientist mentors from the Network, as part of the VALIDATE’s aim to encourage Continuing Professional Development and career progression amongst its members. Each mentoring relationship will run for 12 months. A mentor can help you:

  • Explore and plan the best route and your goals
  • Strengthen your CV to be more likely to win grant applications and new positions
  • Overcome obstacles
  • Network
  • Learn from your mentor's experience

A mentor provides an independent perspective, and challenges, supports and guides you to be the best you can be - so do apply to our scheme! Find out more about the benefits of having a mentor, and how to apply to the VALIDATE scheme here.

 

Don't forget to tune into our 2nd VALIDATE seminar, 12 noon (GMT) this Friday (15 Feb). "Developing a better vaccine against TB" by Prof Helen McShane and Dr Rachel Tanner from University of Oxford will be live-streamed so that you can watch wherever you are happen to be in the world, and a recording will be available for those who can't make it. Read the talk abstract, and find out how to join the seminar, here.

 

Funding: 

  • AMS Networking grant - for international networking events to promote new interdisciplinary collaborations - deadline 21 Mar 2019
  • WACCBIP PhD Fellowships - for African scientists aspiring to work on infectious pathogens - deadline 15 Feb 2019
  • BactiVac Catalyst Funding - our sister GCRF Network, focusing on bacterial vaccine development, is funding pump-priming projects up to £50k - deadline 5 May 2019
  • RSTMH small grants - to support early career researchers and professionals all over the world - deadline 15 Apr 2019

For other funding opportunities check out our external funding page.

 

Training Opportunities:

Visit our training opportunities page for even more opportunities.

 

Events

Visit our events page for further events.

 

Job Opportunities: 

 

Find all the vacancies in our field on our website.

 

Publications:

Do let us know if you publish a paper so that we can publicise it to our members. Have a look at our publications page for publications of interest by our members and in the fields of our focus pathogens.

 

Highlights on Twitter this week: lots of tweets celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science, including our own, Africa Renewal UN's video "Why support women and girls in science and technology? Because we need to unlock the potential of half of the population", a Lancet dedicated theme issue, and a tweet thread where our very own Directors Helen and Helen are held up as examples of how it is possible to 'be a powerful and successful woman scientist while being a nice human being'; as well as career tips and inspiration via the MRC podcast; a joint immunology and biochemistry collection from the BSI and Biochemistry Society, aiming to encourage interdisciplinary work; how to become a Wiki author to ensure the scientists you admire and respect are represented on Wikipedia; a Research Professional article "Zen and the art of responding to reviewers' comments"; a commentary that 'anti-vaccine attitudes go deeper than education', a Telegraph article about human challenge studies; a GAVI infographic on how vaccines protect the community as well as the individual; and a Nature article 'learning to handle failure is just part of scientific life'. Follow us @NetworkVALIDATE to keep up to date on news in our field.

 

There will be a two week pause in our updates while Sam is on annual leave, but we'll be back in March!

 

Published: 13 February 2019