We hope this email finds you well! On behalf of the UK Polar Network and the UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnership, we are looking into trying to improve support and address current issues for postdocs through this year within the UK research framework, and we'd like to see what the community thinks are the most pertinent questions and issues that are worth tackling.
In this regard, we'd like to ask you, as members of the UK polar sciences community, to fill in a short questionnaire about how organisations like us can better support postdocs in their research and life. Truly, this questionnaire is short! 5 questions are simply clicking boxes, and 2 questions needs a short paragraph--5 minutes max. You can answer this form anonymously, so please be as critical as need be!
The survey is open to anyone in the polar sciences community regardless of current stage of career: It's quite important that we get a variety of responses from as many people as possible. This will feed in to discussions in both UKPN and UKAAP, in which committee members are made up of early careers, senior lecturers and scientists, administrators, and funding agency (e.g. NERC, UKRC) representatives. So what you say will actually be heard by the relevant people that can actually make these changes.
We will keep this form open until the 18th November 2015, giving just under a month for you to fill in your responses.
Lastly, the link to the questionnaire: goo.gl/frJQ2D
Best wishes in your research and postdoc aspirations,
TJ, Anne, Clare and Ruth, on behalf of the UKPN and UKAAP
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TJ Young
PhD Student, University of Cambridge
Co-President, UK Polar Network
Email: tj.young@polarnetwork.org
Phone: +44 (0)7539 526731
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