We will be hosting a four-part series of expert-led interactive workshops in 2023 and 2024, each one considering a different aspect of preparing, publishing, and publicising your research. The goals of this Series are to demystify the scholarly publishing system…
Weighing to seek a permanent job in academia? It’s a tough process, so we’re here to help! After an inspiring Pacific region edition, the IAVCEI ECR-Net working group is now inviting you to Part II of the virtual panel event...
We are happy to welcome the newly elected members of the ECR-Net Working Group, and bid a fond farewell to the members who are rotating out of the group. Stay tuned for more updates!
Do you want to help support our fantastic community and improve career development and well-being? The IAVCEI’s Early-Career Researcher Network (ECR-Net) is renewing its working group, and seeking 5 motivated and enthusiastic new ECR members. The aim of the working...
2023 has seen two of the IAVCEI community’s biggest conferences, usually held two years apart from each other. Check out our recent activities page to find out how the ECR-Net was getting involved!
The IAVCEI ECR-Net is a global group of volcanology researchers dedicated to connecting Early-Career Researchers in volcanology and related subdisciplines worldwide, and providing them with useful resources for career development.
The IAVCEI Early-Career Researchers Network (ECR-Net) was established during the IAVCEI 2013 conference in Kagoshima (Japan) by a group of Early-Career enthusiasts and then-IAVCEI President Ray Cas, in order to (1) support career development, (2) form an active network and (3) coordinate specific activities for early-career volcanologists. Since then, the ECR-Net working group has held several social meetings, interacted with IAVCEI’s Executive Committee, set up ECR discussion platforms on social media, organised virtual panels, as well as developed ECR-dedicated programs during major conferences (e.g. IAVCEI General Assembly, Cities on Volcanoes conference, IUGG General Assembly).
Ongoing efforts include the following:
Supporting career development
Hold workshops at IAVCEI-sponsored meetings: Q&A sessions with senior scientists, scientific CV writing, job opportunities, publishing, grant proposal writing, etc.;
Hold virtual Q&A panels with members of the research community to discuss career development;
Develop an online forum for Q&A with senior scientists, linking to job opportunities, etc.
Forming an active network to share resources
Use social media (Facebook, Twitter, VHUB) as informal ways to distribute ECR-specific information,g., international funding and partnership opportunities, ECR-Net activities, etc.;
Produce an ECR-Net newsletter highlighting cutting-edge research by early-career volcanologists worldwide (within IAVCEI News);
Highlight ECR news and science from listservs, websites, and journals.
Co-ordinate early-career specific activities at IAVCEI assemblies and involvement in IAVCEI
Increase opportunities for ECR involvement and recognition, e.g., develop an award to recognize early career scientists, and/or dedicated ECR events.
Increase involvement of early-career researchers in convening sessions and IAVCEI commissions;
Hold early-career specific pre-/post-conference workshops to provide training, networking and feedback/advice on presentations of other topics of early-career interest.