ECR-net

ECR-net

IAVCEI communications & announcements

Call for new members of the ECR-Net Working Group

Call for new members of the ECR-Net Working Group

Do you want to help support our fantastic community and improve career development and well-being? The International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) Early-Career Researcher Network (ECR-Net) is renewing its working group, and seeking motivated and...

Early-career researcher plenary session application

Early-career researcher plenary session application

We are happy to announce that there will be TWO opportunities to showcase Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and their work at the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly 2025! The ECR plenary session is new to IAVCEI and was first implemented during the...

Introducing the IAVCEI ECR-Net Research Masterclass Series!

Introducing the IAVCEI ECR-Net Research Masterclass Series!

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...

New members of the working group

New members of the working group

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!

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About IAVCEI’s Early-Career Researchers Network

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

  • Produce an ECR-Net newsletter highlighting cutting-edge research by early-career volcanologists worldwide (within IAVCEI News);
  • Use social media (Facebook, Twitter, VHUB) as informal ways to distribute ECR-specific information,g., international funding and partnership opportunities, ECR-Net activities, etc.;
  • 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.