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NECTAR defines Early-Career Academics (ECAs) with a broad inclusion of all staff and HDR candidates who self-identify as early-career researchers and teachers.

• This definition of ECAs includes full- and part-time research and teaching staff, casual/sessional staff, visiting fellows and HDR candidates. It includes people of all levels of employment and irrespective of whether they hold a PhD.
• NECTAR’s definition takes into account career interruptions that affect how people self-identify as early-career academics.
• It is inclusive of people of all genders, ages, ethnicities, backgrounds and identities, in line with the ANU 2018–2021 Strategic Plan and its goal to achieve equity.
• It is deliberately inclusive and as such enriches the community and welcomes its diversity.