New Early Career working group: landscape scale environmental monitoring for sustainability
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 are bringing together an early career working group to conduct an evidence-based synthesis on landscape monitoring for sustainability.
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. We are looking to form an interdisciplinary group so do not feel limited by your current field of study.
What: We will broadly focus on how current landscape-scale monitoring initiatives support and track progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, but the defined research questions will depend on the interests of the group. The group will aim to communicate their findings as a perspectives piece in the Landscape Ecology journal.
When: We plan to meet once a month from October 2024 until the ialeUK conference in July 2025 to define the aims, questions and approach to the research. The time commitment will be a 1-hour monthly meeting, with 2-4 hours work between meetings, depending on individual availabilities.
Where: Monthly meetings will be virtual, hosted on MS Teams. Contact students@iale.uk to be added to the mailing list to receive meeting invites.
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
Why: In addition to the networking opportunity, involvement in the development of an academic paper will support future job applications, demonstrating an ability to think beyond your current area of expertise.
Bracken covered hill ialeUK/Caitlin Lewis 2023
