Team pulls together opportunities for students and researchers fleeing the war
A community group of volunteer students and scientists has launched an initiative to help Ukrainian researchers fleeing the war in their country find overseas opportunities.
Science For Ukraine says its mission is “to collect and disseminate information about support opportunities at the university, national, and international level for students and researchers” affected by the Russian invasion.
The group acknowledges support from Eastern Europe think-tank NEP4Dissent, the University of Latvia’s Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art, and the Polish Young Academy at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Their website lists multiple opportunities in the UK, such as a one-year funded position at a lab at the University of Cardiff for a researcher from Ukraine to work on Parkinson’s disease.
Here, Research Professional News provides an overview of some of the opportunities.
London
The site lists several opportunities in London, including at the University of Greenwich School of Science, which offers “support to find external funding and possibly informal arrangements for accommodation”, and a “paid internship for a PhD student or a postdoc at a Ukrainian university/institute on a topic related to cell/molecular/computational biology or biochemistry” at Queen Mary University of London.
University College London is offering “a postdoc job to a Ukrainian neuroscientist/cell physiologist if they wish to leave the country” in the field of neuroscience.
And UCL School of Advanced Study “can offer office and residential accommodation and fellowship in one of eight research institutes”.
Richmond Pharmacology, a contract research organisation, offers “opportunities for full-time, paid, interim (3-6 months) employment in the UK for students”, with “possible longer-term appointments available for individuals experienced in clinical trials and research”.
Rest of England
Carozo Salas Lab at the University of Bristol offers 6-month internships for Ukrainian researchers in the fields of human stem cells, cell biology, quantitative bioimaging and machine learning.
The Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre based at Cranfield University offers “two PhD scholarships in AI, autonomy, drone, wireless and security for qualified students from Ukraine”.
The Natural History Museum in Tring is offering accommodation to “any Ukraine bird/conservation researchers who need a temporary home and can get to the UK”.
Neuroscientists at the University of Sussex and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School have pledged to help researchers affected by the invasion of Ukraine. They invite approaches from neuroscience PhD student and postdocs to help them with internships.
Scotland
A team at the University of Edinburgh “could try to find opportunities for clinically qualified neurologists to work in Scotland” on systematic reviews and meta-analyses in biomedical lab-based research.
The University of Dundee lists “temporary placements for students at any level in labs at the Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation”.
The Council for At-Risk Academics lists a contact at the University of Stirling who is “happy to liaise” to help “academics in immediate danger, those forced into exile, and many who choose to work in their home countries despite serious risks”.
Other opportunities
The site also lists more general opportunities, including Keele University’s offer of accommodation for a visiting researcher, and the Marciniak group based in the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, which is seeking a postdoc fellow in the diagnosis and treatment of pleural mesothelioma.