Welcome to the 'first port of call' for all contract research staff in the Department of Plant Sciences. Here you can find news and information specifically for postdocs in the department, as well as links to other useful sites beyond Plant Sciences.
The postdoc committee maintains an overview of postdoctoral affairs in the department. These includes running regular events to build a strong postdoc community (e.g. postdoc lunches, external speakers), assessing postdoc needs in the department (e.g. annual survey), and maintaining the departmental postdoc mentoring scheme and website.
The postdoc committee facilitates communication between postdocs and the department and function as a first point of contact between both parties.
Activities should be postdoc-led, with administrative support and a PI representative.
Because it is postdoc led, a high turnover of members is expected. It is also expected that members leaving the committee should seek a replacement to sustain the postdoc committee.
Committee meetings are organized in Michaelmas, Lent and Easter terms, two weeks after the start of term.
Members of the Committee can be reached by e-mailing: postdocs@plantsci.cam.ac.uk.
A survey of Postdoc opinion within the Department was conducted within the department in December 2017-January 2018. If you're interested in seeing what your fellow Postdocs are thinking, and how the Postdoc Committee is using your input to try to act on the issues raised, you can download an (anonymised) summary of the results. Read a summary of departmental changes (restricted) in response to postdoc comments in the 2017 survey, kindly provided by Catherine Butler and Marcus Jarman.
In this section:
- Upcoming and past events
- Information for new research staff
- Information for current research staff
- Plant Sciences mentoring group
- Teaching documents (restricted)
See also:
- Housing
- Guide to teaching within the Department (Raven password required)
Research Staff Committee
Research staff in the Department of Plant Sciences are represented by the Research Staff Committee. Current members of this committee are:
Members of the Committee can be reached by e-mailing: postdocs@plantsci.cam.ac.uk.
Postdocs from the department are also represented on several committees including:
- Staff committee: Adam Hall
- Health and Safety: Ronelle Roth
- Biological Safety: Carmen Marti
- Equality and Diversity Committee: Stephanie Swarbreck, Sabrina Gonzalez-Jorge
- Organiser of internal seminar series: Ronelle Roth
- External: Jeongmin Choi