Early Career Researchers

Early Career Researchers (ECRs) are emerging researchers within their first eight years of academic or other research-related employment, following completion of postgraduate research training. There is no age limit on who can be an ECR as the definition is dependent on where the researcher is in their career progression. The resources located here are targeted towards ECRs who work at The University of Queensland (UQ).

ECR-focused training and development

• Academic Orientation at UQ
• Early Career Academic Development Program
• Research Integrity Module 
• Communicating research in media and social media 
• Career development resources for early career academics
• UQ Library offers a variety of workshops and training
• ACOLA Career Support for Researchers handbook
• HHMI - Resources for the development of early career scientists
• Visit the External Resources page for additional resources.

Engagement, Impact and Entrepreneurship

• UniQuest training and workshops
• ilab - business incubator and accelerator
• Create Change Masterclass - UQ site linking to entrepreneurship and innovation education opportunities available at UQ, including three online masterclasses:
  • Ideas to Impact
  • Power to Change
  • Engage to Innovate

Key ECR grants

• UQ Early Career Researcher Grants Scheme
• ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards
• NHMRC Early Career Fellowships
• ARC Discovery Indigenous

UQ ECR committees

• UQ Early and Mid Career Academic Committee (EC@UQ)
• Australian Institute Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
• Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
• Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
• Institute for Molecular Bioscience
• School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
• School of Biomedical Science
• Queensland Brain Institute
• Queensland Alliance Agriculture and Food Innovation
• UQ Centre for Clinical Research
• TC Beirne School of Law ECR Reading Group

Social media

• #ECRchat - live Twitter chat for ECRs
• Early career researchers forum (Facebook)
• Australasian Early Career Urban Research Network (Facebook)
• Institute for Molecular Bioscience Early Career Researchers (UQIMBECR) on Facebook

Some of these sites are external links and UQ is not affiliated with, nor does it support or endorse the information contained in the external links.