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Empowering Voices: “Where are the Women?” – UK Map Project

The SRUK/CERU WOM=N Equity and Research Committee is thrilled to announce an inspiring initiative: Where are the Women? – UK Map Project. This project, launched to commemorate the International Working Women’s Day on March 8th, aims to illuminate the contributions of remarkable women who have shaped our communities across the UK. Through a series of Empowering Voices: “Where are the Women?” – UK Map Project

7th SRUK/CERU Blog contest 2022-23

The results for our latest blog contest are out and, after a very tight vote… Congratulations to the winners of our 7th SRUK/CERU Blog contest! Thanks to everyone who collaborated with SRUK/CERU by publishing a post on our blog and, regardless of the outcome of the contest, please keep writing! If you would like to 7th SRUK/CERU Blog contest 2022-23

Natural microfactories for nanothings

In the last few decades, all sorts of unimaginable milestones and developments have been achieved, including those in the in the fields that study, develop, and enhance materials. One of these advancements has been the emergence and development of nanomaterials: things within the range of at least one dimension on the nanometre scale or, in Natural microfactories for nanothings

Dr Roser Vento-Tormo wins the SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award

La Vanguardia, SwissInfo, Europapress, Infosalus, Confisalud, El Ibérico

Dr Roser Vento-Tormo, group leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, has been awarded with the SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award 2023

London, 4th September 2023. The Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) and the Banco Santander Foundation have awarded the SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award 2023 to Dr Roser Vento-Tormo for her long-standing and excellent contributions to the field of genomics and bioinformatics toward a better understanding of transcriptional regulatory circuits. By developing and Dr Roser Vento-Tormo, group leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, has been awarded with the SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award 2023

Dr Irene Echeverria is the new president of SRUK/CERU

Donostitik, Irutxuloko Hitza, El Ibérico (first press release), El Ibérico (second press release), El Diario Vasco, Cadena SER

Irene Echeverria Altuna has been elected the new SRUK/CERU president

CONTENT ONLY IN SPANISH Londres, 6 de agosto de 2023. La nueva presidenta de CERU, Irene Echeverria Altuna, se mudó a Londres para estudiar la carrera de Neurociencias en la University College London (UCL) en 2014. En 2017, obtuvo la beca de la Caixa para estudios de posgrado, con la cual estudió un Máster en Irene Echeverria Altuna has been elected the new SRUK/CERU president

Interconnection leads to opportunities in research, discussed at the X International Symposium SRUK/CERU

London, 10th of July 2023. The Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) hosted its X International Symposium in London this weekend. The welcome reception took place at The Royal Institution of Great Britain, an iconic place where many renowned researchers such as Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and Michael Faraday once worked. The event Interconnection leads to opportunities in research, discussed at the X International Symposium SRUK/CERU

Interview with Rafael Carrascosa Marzo, director of the SRUK/CERU Science Policy department

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Larissa Zárate is leading the SRUK/CERU International Symposium this year

El Correo, SmallCapNews

Oxygen: life or toxicity generator, a fine balance

Oxygen is something as common as breathing — could not have worded it better! However, oxygen is not as simple as you may think. When talking about oxygen, we are also referring to the third-most abundant element in the universe with regards to mass, just right after hydrogen and helium. Oxides, compounds containing at least Oxygen: life or toxicity generator, a fine balance

Volunteering for SRUK/CERU

I joined SRUK/CERU in 2016 and I am still here, alive and kicking, co-chairing this year’s International Symposium SRUK/CERU! Clearly, the positive things of being part of this Society outweigh the negative ones; otherwise I would not still be here. Nevertheless, the journey has not been a bed of roses, and I am sure other Volunteering for SRUK/CERU

Issues with the education system raised during CienciaUK 2023

Nueva Tribuna, La Región Internacional, Crónicas de la Emigración

Spanish researchers in the United Kingdom ask for the country to be included in the Horizon Europe scheme

CONTENT ONLY IN SPANISH Madrid, 14 de abril de 2023. La Sociedad de Científicos Españoles en Reino Unido (CERU) y la Fundación Ramón Areces han organizado hoy en Madrid la VII edición de la jornada de CienciaUK. En este evento se han analizado los principales efectos que el Brexit está teniendo en el sistema de Spanish researchers in the United Kingdom ask for the country to be included in the Horizon Europe scheme

Challenges and opportunities (if any) after Brexit

Nueva Tribuna, Diario16

The Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK and Banco Santander Foundation present the eight edition of the SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award

CONTENT ONLY IN SPANISH Londres, 3 de abril de 2023. La Fundación Banco Santander y la Sociedad de Científicos Españoles en Reino Unido (CERU) presentan la octava edición del Premio Talento Emergente CERU 2023. El galardón tiene como objetivo promover el talento de jóvenes investigadores españoles más allá de nuestras fronteras además de contribuir al The Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK and Banco Santander Foundation present the eight edition of the SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award

Open call for the VII edition of the SRUK/CERU Emerging Talent Award 2023

Empresa Exterior, El Ibérico

Gender perspectives in climate change research discussed at Instituto Cervantes in London

London, 30th March 2023. The Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) and the Women for Africa Foundation (MxA), in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy, have hosted a roundtable at the Instituto Cervantes in London entitled “Gender Perspectives in Climate Change Research“.  Dr Victoria Showunmi, Associate Professor in the Education, Policy, and Society <strong>Gender perspectives in climate change research discussed at Instituto Cervantes in London</strong>

My journey towards a research career

During the first years of my Biology degree at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), I never thought that I would be able to dedicate myself to research in the future. Basically, I decided to start this BSc degree because I was interested in zoology (animal studies), and because we had always been told that <strong>My journey towards a research career</strong>

SRUK/CERU and Instituto Cervantes London
celebrate International Women’s Day with a
storytelling starring women and girls in science

London, 11th of March 2023. The “Science-me a Story: Stories for Young Researchers” event has taken place today at Instituto Cervantes London, a scientific outreach activity co-organised by the Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK/CERU) has co-organised, the Instituto Cervantes London, and the Lilly Foundation. This event has celebrated International Women’s Day SRUK/CERU and Instituto Cervantes London<br>celebrate International Women’s Day with a<br>storytelling starring women and girls in science

SRUK/CERU and Instituto Cervantes celebrate the International Women Day with a storytelling event

El Ibérico, La Vanguardia, La Región Internacional, SwissInfo

Will the Windsor Framework finish with the uncertainty many researchers face in the UK?

SwissInfo

Will the Windsor Framework finish with the uncertainty many researchers face in the UK?

CONTENT AVAILABLE ONLY IN SPANISH Londres, 1 de marzo de 2023 – Históricamente, el Reino Unido ha sido muy exitoso captando fondos para investigación procedentes de la Unión Europea (UE). Sin embargo, su salida de la UE y una serie de desacuerdos en relación con el Protocolo de Irlanda del Norte provocaron que la UE Will the Windsor Framework finish with the uncertainty many researchers face in the UK?

Lack of sleep, alcoholic fermentation, and other untold discoveries by Maria Manasseina

This year’s International Day of Girls and Women in Science (11F) is as good as any to spark a conversation about the discoveries of female researchers which, despite having profoundly influenced our understanding of the world, have been overlooked, ignored, or discredited. Coinciding with Maria Manasseina’s 180th Anniversary, here is an untold story of her Lack of sleep, alcoholic fermentation, and other untold discoveries by Maria Manasseina