Networking and sharing best practices are crucial for young scholars that aim to excel in their fields and increase the visibility and potential impact of their work. This is even more important now that Covid-19 raises new challenges for early career researchers (ECRs). The pandemic has affected our work in many ways, with the closure of laboratories and libraries, travel restrictions, being forced to work at home—often in difficult conditions—in addition to stressful caring responsibilities for many. ECRs are being forced to adapt by learning new methods and skills, accessing new types of data, and using new digital tools.

The WDS-ECR Network aims to offer support in this regard: through this proposed session, titled: Empowering Early Career Researchers in Data Science and Data Stewardship During the Global Pandemic, we will provide ECRs with opportunities to come together to network and share ideas for how to successfully carry out data management, data analysis, and data sharing during these challenging times. The session will take place on Thursday, 21st of October 2021, from 16:00 to 17:30.

The session will consist of a mixture of invited research and practice papers, followed by an open panel discussion of challenges and opportunities that Early career researchers are facing in these challenging times.

Session description can be found here. 

And for registration click here.