A lack of government support has left parents doing postgraduate degrees “falling between the cracks”, with some facing childcare costs equivalent to their monthly stipends, a report warns timeshighereducation.com/news/phd-stude…

We’re backing GW4 Alliance's call for Govt to extend childcare support to postgraduate students – improving access to higher-level study and diversifying the research talent pipeline. #ICareGW4ChildcareCampaign Read our full response to today’s report: russellgroup.ac.uk/news/russell-g…

Many PGRs have been calling for more adequate childcare support for years to no avail. The new government must ensure that childcare grants/schemes are inclusive of PGRs. Great work by GW4 Alliance Jo Jenkinson PhD MBE Higher Education Policy Institute in bringing this to wider attention!

📢 Calling all academics! We would love to hear you views on interacting with the Government, including the types of engagement you have had and the factors impacting this. Have your say by filling out this survey: dsit.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7V…. Deadline: 5pm on 16.08.

First day as a Research Fellow UCL Centre for Behaviour Change done ☺️

The most transformative experience I've ever had was doing my PhD UCL Rewarding and challenging (no surprise) in equal measures. Feels so surreal it's finally done! The last of the celebrations at my graduation! 🥳 #PhDgraduation #firstgen #womeninSTEM

If you work in research or innovation, this is your last chance to get involved with the 2024 DSIT Research and Innovation Workforce Survey. Take part to have your voice heard to help shape UK government R&I policies and government funding decisions 👇 trial.predictiv.co.uk/index.php/9197…

🌟Exciting news to share🌟 I'm incredibly honoured and slightly stunned to have won the Michael King Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in Mental Health UCL UCL Institute of Mental Health This recognition means a lot 🥹 I'm deeply grateful to supervisors, peers, family & friends who supported me!

We must continue to empower women to pursue research and advanced degrees, and speak out when faced with opposition and misogyny. Great that Cambridge University has spoken in support! Congrats Dr Ally Louks on your PhD! Welcome to the cool club :)

Year in Review. For #InternationalWomensDay, Dr Emma Francis discussed the leaky #STEM pipeline with a focus on why we need to invest in women #Researchers, & shared her own experiences as a woman pursing #MentalHealth research. bit.ly/3V9R4LU

Thanks V.S.Vasiliou for visiting the CBC, and for your inspiring talk on how to visualise relationships between & across TDF domains using system dynamics & network feedback loops. You can read more about this process in their practical guided example: 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Re-sharing this blog I wrote for Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health last year on International Women's Day about the need to invest in women researchers and leaders #IWD25

Received the news that my PhD paper received enough citations to be considered a Top Cited Article for 2023 Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health 🙌 Read it here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #TopCitedArticle

Today, I'm attending an Inclusive Research and Recruitment workshop run by UCL Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at UCL Brain Sciences Will try and post learnings throughout! (1/2)

Opening the workshop is Dr Natalie Marchant Marchant Lab UCL Psychiatry who explains “inclusive recruitment leads to better research understanding human conditions and diseases we study and better treatment and care for all.” (2/2)

Prof Talia Isaacs discusses how they found within research the focus is often not on WHO is taking part in studies but more whether there is sufficient power to detect an effect UCL Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Many funders, including National Institute for Health and Care Research, signpost researchers to the INCLUDE ethnicity framework to improve trial delivery for under-served groups Talia Isaacs UCL Equality, Diversity & Inclusion trialforge.org/trial-diversit…

Dr Rachel Knowles who is Lead for Clinical Research Policy, Ethics and Governance Medical Research Council is up next and discusses ways to address under-representation in research and begins by sharing “Inclusion is essential for a high performing research and innovation system.” UCL Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Dr Rachel Knowles Medical Research Council recommends researchers read Prof Miles Witham's guidance that focuses on inclusive COVID-19 research, however has checklists applicable to all research: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjope… UCL Equality, Diversity & Inclusion