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Early Career Researcher Forum: Response to the Government’s University Reform Announcement
  • Building a Sustainable Research Ecosystem: ECR Perspectives on Aotearoa New Zealand’s University Reforms:
    Response to the Government’s University Reform Announcem...

Early Career Researcher Forum: Response to Funding Cuts to Support the Advanced Technology Institute
  • The Early Career Researcher Forum Committee of the Royal Society Te Apārangi has responded to government’s recent decision to cut research funding.

Early Career Researcher Forum: Submission to the Science System Advisory Group phase 2 consultation
  • The Early Career Researcher Forum Committee of the Royal Society Te Apārangi has responded to the second consultation of the Science System Advisory Group (SSAG).

Early Career Researcher Forum: Response to the first report from SSAG

The Early Career Researcher ...
  • The Early Career Researcher Forum Committee of the Royal Society Te Apārangi has responded to the first report from the Science System Advisory Group (SSAG) and the Go...

Announcing the winners of 180 Seconds of Fascination

Congratulations to the five winners of the 20...
  • PUBLISHED:
    Mon 16 Nov 2020

Early Career Researcher Forum: Marsden Fund changes

The Early Career Researcher Forum Committee of...
  • The Early Career Researcher Forum Committee of the Royal Society Te Apārangi has responded to recent changes to refocus the Marsden Fund.

ECR Masterclass Recap

This Masterclass was a rare opportunity to engage first hand with a world-le...
  • This Masterclass was a rare opportunity to engage first hand with a world-leading figure in plant biology, Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser DBE FRS, Univeristy of Cambrid...

Winners of the 180 Seconds of Discovery video competition announced

Targeted treatments for wormy ...
  • PUBLISHED:
    Wed 26 Sep 2018

Young Academies Photo Competition: Visions and Images of Fascination

Enter this photography compet...
  • Enter this photography competition to reveal the wonder of art and science.

Winners of 150 Years of Discovery Video Competition announced

Poi and health, Airbnb and the shari...
  • Poi and health, Airbnb and the sharing economy and the history of brown trout in New Zealand are the topics of the winning videos of the 150 Years of Discovery video co...

150 Years of Discovery Video Competition: Voting Now Open!

Public voting is now open in our ECR vi...
  • Public voting is now open in our ECR video competition! Take a look at the 40 entries showcasing New Zealand's students and Early Career Researchers...

Take a walk on the polluted side: air pollutant exposure on busy roads

Dr Lena Weissert from Unive...
  • Dr Lena Weissert from University of Auckland explains her research to better measure our exposure to air pollutants as we go about our daily lives.

Making an award-winning video

Tips on making an award-winning video from winner of last year's vid...
  • Tips on making an award-winning video from winner of last year's video competition, 180 Seconds of Science, Dr Helen Taylor.

Matters of coincidence or the collective digital unconscious?

How mapping the digital traces we le...
  • How mapping the digital traces we leave online from expressing ourselves publicly can lead to useful insights – or explain a 'collective digital unconscious'...

Seminar on Interdisciplinary Research and PBRF

Video of online seminar on interdisciplinary resear...
  • Video of online seminar on interdisciplinary research and PBRF (Performance-Based Research Fund) focused on the social sciences and humanities, co-hosted by Early Caree...

Emerging Research video competition

New Zealand's early career researchers and postgraduate studen...
  • New Zealand's early career researchers and postgraduate students are invited to enter this video competition to showcase their discoveries and insights as part of celeb...

Investigating homicide in mental health services

By Lillian Ng, Department of Psychological Medici...
  • By Lillian Ng, Department of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland

Words as windows into our minds

Linguist Dr Andreea Calude, Senior Lecturer at the University of W...
  • Linguist Dr Andreea Calude, Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, tells us how advances in her field are shining a light on how our minds work.

Curiouser & curiouser

By Jason Gurney, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington.
  • By Jason Gurney, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington.

Help us to celebrate 150 years

Early Career Researcher's contribution wanted!

Royal Society Te ...
  • PUBLISHED:
    Wed 10 May 2017

Successful Science Media SAVVY Workshop in Dunedin

Kiti Suomalainen, an ECR (early career research...
  • PUBLISHED:
    Fri 28 Apr 2017

ECR Forum Statement on President Trump’s executive order and funding freezes

Statement from the ...
  • PUBLISHED:
    Thu 2 Feb 2017

Mentoring guidelines for researchers

These guidelines draw on Māori, Pasifika and Pākehā perspe...
  • These guidelines draw on Māori, Pasifika and Pākehā perspectives to offer a unique framework for mentoring in the context of an increasingly diverse Aotearoa New Zea...

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