Early Career Support - Offshore Renewable Energy - Supergen ORE

Early Career Support for those involved in offshore renewable energy:

Commercial roles (we suggest first 6 years in sector)

Post Doctoral Researcher Assistants (PDRAs)

Early career Academic Staff within the first three years of their academic appointment.

PhD Students within 12 months of completion

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What Does the Early Carer Network Offer

The network provides the early career community with connections and cross-sector collaboration practices that will support them throughout their career within offshore renewables.

Collaborate and Innovate: Connect with experts at the forefront of offshore renewable energy development. We facilitate research-industry collaborations that address specific challenges, maximising real-world impact.

Keep pace: Stay up to date with the latest research and share your own innovative projects, keeping you at the forefront of this rapidly evolving sector.

Build a Strong Network: Join a welcoming community of practitioners and researchers and create connections that could open doors for future collaborations.

Shape the Future of Offshore Renewables: Help influence the direction of offshore renewable energy research and address emerging challenges.

Professional Development: Join sessions focused on career development, skills-building, and knowledge exchange.

Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub

The Supergen ORE Hub is EPSRC-funded to drive ground breaking research in offshore wind, wave, and tidal energy.

We serve as a bridge between academia, industry, and key stakeholders, working to develop innovative solutions and address critical challenges in the ORE sector. Our work supports collaboration, ensuring that industry professionals are aware of the exciting research driving progress and that the research community are attuned with industry needs.

Meeting the Sector's Challenges

The offshore renewable energy sector needs professionals who are not only experts in their fields but are connected, with the necessary breadth of knowledge to seize the opportunities the offshore renewable energy sector presents.

Our activities are designed to connect people and spotlight the latest innovations, offering insights from across the offshore renewable energy sector that support a knowledgeable, forward-thinking community.

Early Career Researcher (Academic focus)

We invite early career researchers to join our network to connect with researchers, share your own research and receive support on how to amplify its impact. Skills development will also cover broader career development support such as building research-industry collaborations.

This network aims to connect early career researchers with more senior researchers, in the UK and internationally, to create a diverse and supportive community that nurtures the next generation of offshore renewable energy research leaders.

Please see the above definition of an Early Career Researcher. We welcome enquiries to check individual eligibility - email us.

Early Career Professionals (Commercial/Industry focus)

We invite those early in their career to join our community of innovative professionals, to connect with like-minded individuals and stay in touch with the latest research innovations. You'll also have the opportunity to learn from senior professionals and receive advice on career development.

By joining an interconnected network, you'll benefit from individual career development as well as being part of a collaborative, interconnected offshore renewable energy community.

The network is open to those early in their career - we suggest this is approximately the first 6 years of working in offshore renewable energy related roles. We welcome enquiries to check individual eligibility - email us.

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Opportunities within our network:

All of our activities are free, except for the Masterclasses (funded places are free for eligible Early Career Researchers)

Events

Our events and activities – explore recent activities
Mentoring scheme

Reciprocal and intergenerational mentoring framework
Webinars

The latest insights and innovations in offshore renewable energy research. Explore the webinars.
Masterclasses

Expert-led 1 or 2-day Masterclasses held at research and testing facilities across the UK

Research Funding

The Early Career Researcher Research (ECR) Fund is designed to be a flexible fund to support small activities that develop existing research activities or career skills further. Funded research activities should be aligned with the objectives of the Supergen ORE Hub and be directed at offshore wind, wave or tidal energy research. Multi-disciplinary or multi-sectoral proposals to the fund are welcomed.

Early Career Forum

Each year we hold at least one Early Career Forum (previously the Early Career Researcher Forum). This is an opportunity to support the Early Career Researcher community and typically includes sessions focused on professional development and industry-research panel discussions along with plenty of time to network with fellow early career professionals, along with senior colleagues and keynote speakers.

Find out more about the previous Forums

News from the Early Career Representatives

The Committee of Early Career Representatives work to tailor the activities of the Early Career Network.

ECR Planning Forum meeting slides

Thank you to those who attended the Supergen ORE Hub ECR online planning forum on Tuesday 20 February 2024. For those who were unable to join, please find the slides from the meeting here.

Feedback and contact details

We would like to encourage you to email us with any concerns or comments you would like us to bring up to the Supergen ORE Hub management board. Our emails are: