Membership and aims
The Early Careers Group of the UK Acoustics Network (SIG-ECG) consists of members from industry and academia in the early stages of their careers. We particularly encourage participation from third-year PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, and early career acousticians, engineers and lecturers. As of August 2018, we have more than seventy members.
The aims of the group are to bring our members together to gain and share knowledge and expertise, to foster communication across disciplines, to strengthen links with industry and academia, and to facilitate collaboration. We want to increase the participation of early career members in academia, industry, government, and consulting. We aim to use the knowledge and experience of academic and industry partners to facilitate the development of the next generation of acousticians.
Activities
We held our first, informal meeting in April at Acoustics 2018 in Cardiff.
In August, 2018, we held our first UK Acoustics Network Summer School (UKANSS18) at Gregynog Hall in Wales. The focus was on the development of key or “transferable” skills in communication, networking, collaboration, entrepreneurship and teamwork, career development advice and information about funding opportunities, and training in signal processing and practical applications of frequency analysis. We were able to secure presenters including Professors and Readers from the University of Sheffield, the University of Bristol, the University of Southampton, University College London, the University of Salford, and London South Bank University, and representatives from Thales, Dyson, Ultrahaptics, Brüel & Kjær, and the Engineering Panel of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
We are currently planning our next meetings. Note that we will be holding an informal social event at the UKAN 1st anniversary meeting in Sheffield on 7th January, 2019.
Forum
SIG-ECG members communicate via the Slack app. Our workspace address is earlycareerukan.slack.com. Step 1: Download the app. Step 2: Email us at the address below, specifying the email address you wish to use on Slack. Step 3: Accept our invitation to add you to our Early Careers Group channel. We have a social channel on Slack too!
Contact
For more information about this SIG and our events, or if you have ideas about a future event, please contact the coordinators at earlycareersgroup@acoustics.ac.uk
You can find us on Twitter @EarlyCareerUKAN.
