10 February 2025 - 10 February 2025
10:30AM - 12:30PM
W010 Geography Building
Free, but registration is essential! Deadline for registration is Friday 24th January 2025
We learn to be researchers through our academic discipline and the methods it utilises, but we seldom have the opportunity to come together with researchers from other disciplines to view our diverse research talents through a collaborative lens. Meanwhile, across all disciplines, there are people who are interested in developing into researchers whose work makes a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of individuals and populations.
What is it? A two-hour creatively facilitated workshop bringing together Early Career Researchers to explore ideas, make connections, and map our talents and interests in issues which influence the wider determinants of health and wellbeing - at all scales and in all contexts.
Who is it for? This is a workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) of all academic disciplines at Durham University who want to meet others whose interests fall within the vast spectrum of the wider determinants of health and wellbeing. At the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, we define an Early Career Researcher in the widest sense: undergraduates and students on taught post-graduate programmes who are curious about progressing to post-graduate research; PhD students; post-doctoral research assistants; teaching fellows with an interest in research; established post-docs making the transition to independent researchers.
What are the aims? Firstly, it is a chance for individual ECRs to decouple from their disciplinary frameworks to playfully explore and take stock of their personal research interests, talents, and skills, and consider how they intersect with the Health @Durham mission statement:
‘Unbound from clinic, we frame health differently. Our vision for health is for people to thrive in the places they live. We embrace physical, mental, social and environmental health, envisioned as a synergy of self, beliefs, culture, family, community and planet’
Secondly, it is an opportunity to explore who we are collectively, and to understand how we can be our own resource. Through making connections with fellow ECRs with similar - and complementary - interests, skills, and talents we can explore new directions which have the potential to translate into health and wellbeing research projects.
Thirdly, the potential alliances and affiliations which emerge can be mapped to better understand the potential of the university’s early career research community, which can inform the longer-term strategic planning of our Institutes and Centres.
When? Monday, February 10, 10.30-12.30.
How? The workshop is free, but registration is essential and the deadline is Friday 24th January 2025
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