Wednesday 19 November 2025 11:00am to 2:00pm
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Technical Career Development: In-Person Event - 19th November 2025 - 11am - 2pm
Register here: Technical Career Development: In-Person Event - 19th November 2025 - 11am - 2pm
Fostering growth and collaboration for technicians in large technical networks.
The University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and University College London are hosting three events in 2025 to support the collaboration and professional development of technical staff based in large networks at universities across the UK.
Date: 19th November 2025
Time: 11:00 am to 2.00 pm
Venue: Jeffery Hall, UCL London
This session will focus on your career journey and encourage reflection on resources that can help further your career. We strongly recommend for you to engage with peers across our Institutes and use the opportunity to share best practice. There will be interactive workshops and networking session:
11:00 – 11:30 | Arrival, registration, and refreshments (sandwiches lunch that can be taken into the seminar)
11:30 – 11:35 | Welcome - Aimie Chapple – UCL’s Vice-President Operations
11:35 – 13:00 | Career Enhancement Workshop – Eugene Washington Walker, Programme Director (MSc People Analytics & Human-Centric Management), Lecturer (Organisations & Innovation), UCL School of Management
13:00 – 13:10 | Comfort break
13:10 – 13:30 | Career Route to Professorship: A RTP Perspective – Professor Jemima Burden – Professorial Research Fellow and Head of Electron Microscopy at UCL’s Laboratory for Molecular Biology
13:30 – 14:00 | Panel discussion
14: 30 – Late | Optional visit to the Science Museum- Technicians Gallery
After the event closes at 2.00pm, attendees can choose to join an optional visit to Technicians: The David Sainsbury Gallery at the Science Museum. In addition to being able to explore this inspirational gallery showcasing technical careers, there will be an opportunity for you to meet representatives from the Science Museum and the Gatsby Foundation to learn more about their outreach activities to encourage school-aged students to choose technical careers. This visit will be on a drop-in basis rather than a guided tour and you can plan to join for as little or as long as you would like depending upon your other commitments that afternoon and evening. Last entry to the museum is 5.15pm and it is open until 6.00pm. If you are interested in joining the visit, please email jennifer.allen@admin.ox.ac.uk by 4.00pm on Monday 17 November to be added to the guest list.
Register here: Technical Career Development: In-Person Event - 19th November 2025 - 11am - 2pm