New Early Career working group: landscape scale environmental monitoring for sustainability
Please note, due to a high level of interest, this opportunity is now closed. We may run this opportunity again next year - stay tuned!
Postgraduate study can often feel isolating, and students can easily feel trapped in their own research bubble, with little opportunity to engage with research beyond their niche. Research beyond the postgraduate level frequently requires the management of collaborations, which postgraduate projects can offer little opportunity to build experience in.
This is why, in advance of our 2025 ialeUK Conference on environmental monitoring, we have launched an early career working group to conduct an evidence-based synthesis on landscape monitoring for sustainability.
The working group is making progress on our systematic review of studies monitoring landscape restoration impacts on biodiversity in the UK – and we’re reopening the call to join us! We have screened nearly 2000 abstracts to identify suitable studies to answer questions on how landscape monitoring studies are designed and identify where monitoring has been conducted long-term.
Who: The working group is aimed at early career researchers; those currently studying at postgraduate level or within 5 years of their last degree, and we welcome contributions from others working in practice and policy at a similar career stage.
Time Commitment: Your involvement would be extracting data from 10-15 papers between now and April, then co-writing a short academic piece to communicate results by the end of July 2025, with attendance at catch-up meetings once a month.
Outcomes: The group aims to communicate their findings as a perspectives piece in the Landscape Ecology journal.
Working group participants will also be invited to attend the ialeUK conference where they will have the opportunity to collate further evidence from talks and survey responses from conference delegates
Benefits of joining the working group:
Conducting a policy and practice-relevant review to support future job applications.
Working together with other ECR’s breaks the isolation of postgraduate study and builds connections and networking opportunities.
Involvement in the development and authorship of an academic paper.
Please contact early career representative, Caitlin, on students@iale.uk to join the working group.
Bracken covered hill ialeUK/Caitlin Lewis 2023
