October 2021
ANU NECTAR 10 year Journey
Why did early-career academics create NECTAR?
10 years ago, a group of early-career academics led a change at ANU, that continues to make a difference to this day. Key achievements of NECTAR over the decade:
- Representation and conversations on how to enable early-career academics
- A program and advocacy group connecting researchers across and beyond the campus
- Mentoring Program giving all ANU early- and mid-career academics access to mentoring since 2018
Read more on NECTAR’s 10 year journey here.
Watch here for a peek of how and why NECTAR was founded, an interview with the founders of NECTAR. Watch the full video here.
Tue 12 October 2021
ANU NECTAR 10 year Anniversary Forum
ANU Executive has sustained funding to support NECTAR continuously for 10 years! Come and celebrate the successes and discuss what is next with ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt and much more. Full program is here.
September 2021
Collaboration across Boundaries 2021
Wed 15 September 10-11.30am
Are you a researcher? Listen to the stories of how others have been a part of incredible research collaborative teams. How did they make it work? Has it helped in their career success? Join the discussion.
Speakers:
- Prof Assa Doron, School of Culture, History & Language, CAP
- Dr Jo Lane, Research School of Population Health, CHM
- Maia Gould, Strategic Services Lead, School Of Cybernetics, CECS
- Dr Matt Thompson, Research School of Physics, COS
- Dr Siobhan McDonnell, Crawford School of Public Policy, CAP
· Liah Naidoo, CAP
03 September 2021
Congratulations to our elected NECTAR Co-Chairs for 2021
Shaam Al Abed, Ian Carter, Bin Lu (2nd term) and Hieu Nguyen (2nd term)! Thank you for stepping up for this important service role.
A big thank you to the outgoing Co-Chairs, whose terms have just ended: Mari Kondo and Kai Zhang. Thank you for your contributions and leadership during a particularly challenging time.
July 2021
NECTAR Annual General Meeting
Have you ever attended a workshop or social event with NECTAR?
Have you benefitted from NECTAR and its initiatives? Are you curious what NECTAR has been up to in the last 12 months? Show your support by coming to NECTAR's AGM on Thursday 19 August, 11.30am-12.30pm.
Meet the NECTAR Co-Chair nominees and find out what their visions are for NECTAR. Check the meeting agenda here.
RSVP here to receive Zoom details or submit your apology.
Nominations for NECTAR Co-Chair are now open, here, closes 17 August.
July 2021
Early-career academic awareness week 2021
Would you like to share your stories, successes and challenges of being an ECA at ANU?
NECTAR is seeking input from ECAs to be featured in our newsletters to increase the understanding of current challenges ECAs are facing, with the aim of of rasing awareness across the ANU community of what it takes to be successful.
Please get in touch with us here to learn more and share your story. You may also choose to remain anonymous in our newsletters.
Check here for examples from NECTAR Casual Staff Awareness Week in 2019.
June 2021
NECTAR Newsletter "The Early Career Academic - June edition" is now online
Want to keep up-to-date with events related to early-career academics? Check out the June edition of our newsletter here.
Not receiving the NECTAR monthly newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.
June 2021
Upcoming professional development events
Check upcoming events the NECTAR office has put together.
From creating engaging content for publication to HDR supervision troubleshooting forum, we are excited to invite you to one (or all) of our events.
Check events calendar here for all NECTAR events.
May 2021
Professional development events in May
The NECTAR office has been busy putting together a diverse events calendar for May.
From resilience and managing uncertainty to foundations of HDR supervision to EFS series and academic writing workshops, we are excited to invite you to one (or all) of our events.
Check events calendar here for all NECTAR events.
23 March 2021
Meet NECTAR – An open forum for ECAs
Come along on Tuesday 23 March, 11.30am, and meet the NECTAR Co-Chairs, staff and active volunteers. This is also an opportunity to table issues you are facing and to share experiences with other ECAs.
Subscribe to the NECTAR mailing list or contact us to receive Zoom details.
2 February 2021
Applications are now open for the NECTAR Mentoring Program 2021!
Find out more about the program here or get in touch at mentoring.nectar@anu.edu.au.
Applications to participate as a Mentee will close on 28 February. Placements are limited and eligibility criteria apply.
20 January 2021
Join the team!
What are your plans for 2021? Are you looking for an opportunity to gain leadership skills? Would you like to meet other engaged ECAs and work together to make a difference? Then join the NECTAR Custodian team. We strive to recruit a diverse team of Custodians and encourage ECAs from all backgrounds and walks of life to join, including casual academic staff, visiting fellows and PhD candidates.
And if you are looking for something that requires a little less time commitment: become part of NECTAR’s network across all schools, centres and institutes through the newly created role of NECTAR School Representative. We are currently looking for ECAs from all areas within ANU who would like to join the School Representatives team.
Ready to join? Submit your expression of interest through this short form or email nectar@anu.edu.au. In your expression of interest, please include a short paragraph on why you would like to become a Custodian and/or School Representative.
Questions? Get in touch!