ESI Early Career Research (ECR) network
ESI ECR interdisciplinary workshop
Celebrating Black History Month with an exhibition lecture
Paint your research 1
ESI ECR interdisciplinary workshop
Research Development Support for Early Career Researchers
ESI ECR quiz
ESI ECR Research Showcase
Paint your research 2
ECR guest lecture series: Dr Shib Sankar Ganguli
We have around 140 ECR's in the ESI. These include everyone from first year PhD’s to the very experienced Postdocs, so we have a wide range of disciplines and levels of experience. It is important to have a space for our ideas and collaborations, and to try to facilitate research that falls out with the current discipline set up. Most importantly during these current times, we need to have a space for informal socialisation and feel a sense of community, which is of course, very difficult to achieve.
So far, our events have looked at global challenges and big questions, to help focus our skills towards specific aims, and we have also looked at resources and databases that we all have access to, which could be useful to us all.
Our ESI ECR representatives:
Select past events
January 2025: Research Development Support for Early Career Researchers
The session served as an introduction about the support that the Cornwall research services team offer to Early Career Researchers who are considering applications for fellowships and grants. View the full video recording here.
October 2025: African Dialogues 1.0 – Re-thinking African and Black History: Natural resources & law
This focused lecture was part of the "African Dialogues 1.0", a three-part UK academic and cultural symposium in Exeter, London and Penryn, organised by Madeline R. Young-Touré in partnership with the "Black Dialogues 2.0" Netherlands events supported by the seed grant from University of Amsterdam’s Decolonial Futures RPA. The UK-EU series collaborated with the University of Exeter, SOAS University of London, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, University College London (UCL) and the British Museum. It explored decolonial approaches to African and Black material cultures, embodied heritages, natural resources, law, and extractive legacies shaped by Africa–Europe entanglements. The Penryn session featured Madeline R. Young-Touré and Dr Chitzi Ogbumgbada. You can view the full video recording here.
