Global-NAMRIP has a support network for its Early Career Researchers (ECR's). ECR's come from both the UK, including the five University of Southampton Faculties and University Hospital Southampton, and further afield. The support network is overseen by the Global-NAMRIP Early Career Researcher Committee, with the following members:
- Dr David Cleary (Microbial Sciences)
- Dr Peijun He (Optoelectronics and Biosensors)
- Dr Callum Highmore (Microbiology)
- Dr Maria Victoria Humbert (Biological Sciences)
- Dr Tom Secker (Microbiology)
The ECR career stage can offer many opportunities but also can be difficult as it is the key time when long-term career options become available or not. Global-NAMRIP seeks to support ECRs by:
- Providing a training and mentoring scheme, opportunities to present and exhibit at conferences, peer feedback on projects and global exposure to raise research profiles. The Global-NAMRIP Festival of Early Career Research in AMR enabled over 40 ECR’s to present a poster to senior academics, clinicians and guests from government and industry. Earlier in the year ECR’s had the opportunity to attend a Parliamentary AMR reception, speaking to MP’s, Lords, parliamentary staff about their research. At the 2nd Global-NAMRIP conference in Uganda, we were delighted to support attendance at the event of 2 ECR’s.
- Enabling ECR’s to bid and win pump priming funds, as Pl, of approximately £20,000 to do their own research and manage budgets and teams for the first time. Our NAMRIP brochure contains details of the 11 ECR led pump priming projects funded through our EPSRC grant. More recently an ECR was PI and joint PI in two of the five projects sharing £100k of funding.
- Encouraging ECR’s to form new collaborations across disciplines to explore projects in anti-microbial resistance and infection prevention.
- Encouraging outreach work to communicate our science and engineering messages to the public and in particular young people considering their future career options. Our NAMRIP exhibit, which we take to events such as the annual University of Southampton Science & Engineering Day, enables our ECR’s to easily join in outreach work.
- Inspiring ECR’s to work in ways, and on projects, that would not have been possible a generation ago, by learning the skills of other disciplines and to a certain extent freeing ourselves to work in the novel gaps between established disciplines.
Emeritus ECR Committee Members
Previous members of the ECR Committee continue to be involved in Global-NAMRIP, providing advice and mentoring to new Early Career Researchers. Our Emeritus ECR committee members are:
- Dr Ray Allan (Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University)
- Dr Craig Dolder (Senior Research Scientist at Sloan Water Technology Ltd)
- Dr Marcela Hernandez (Senior Research Associate, University of East Anglia)
- Dr Paul Hurley (Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton)
- Dr Nikhil Mistry (Research Fellow at the University of Southampton)