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Catchup – Salon – Starting Your First Research Lab
September 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
This Salon webinar brings together Dr Ian Harrison from UCL and Dr Rosie Jackson from the University of Dundee to discuss the key steps, challenges, and lessons learned in setting up a first independent research lab.
Starting your first research lab is both exciting and overwhelming. After years of training, you finally have the chance to lead your own group, set your own direction, and bring your vision to life. But where do you begin? How do you recruit a team, manage a budget, build a culture, and still find time to think, write, and apply for funding? Today, we will explore what it really means to take that first step into independence—and hear from researchers who have done it, learned from it, and are still finding their way.
Speakers
Dr Ian Harrison is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London. During the pandemic Ian established his own lab, looks at the function of the glymphatic system in the brain, responsible for the clearance of protein solutes from the brain parenchyma. With Fellowship funding from not one, but two charities, he has forged a path to independence and is happy to talk about his learning, experiences and share his tips.
Dr Rosie Jackson is a Principal Investigator at University of Dundee, researching synaptic pathology in health and disease. Rosemary’s interests are highly interdisciplinary, involving collaboration with local and international colleagues in psychology, neuropathology, neuroimaging, and genetics. She has dozen’s of publications and is a contributor to reviewing many more papers.
