🚨BREAKING: NIHR summons research peasants to a 3.5-hour webinar to hear how you too can become a ‘starving academic’! 🚨
📅 Date: Thursday 22 January 2026
🕐 Time: 1:00pm–4:30pm (yes, 3.5 hours of pure inspiration)
📍 Where: Online (so you can attend in your pajamas while the cat walks across your keyboard)
🗣️ What’s happening?
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and its army of research delivery overlords are hosting “Forging Your Research Pathway: Exploring development opportunities with the NIHR and beyond.” Translation: “Come worship at the altar of grant applications and learn how to survive on coffee and hope.”
🎯 Highlights include:
– 🎉 Alumni success stories (aka people who somehow didn’t quit and now give motivational speeches)
– 📚 “Development opportunities” (a.k.a. more training, more forms, more acronyms)
– 🧭 Practical guidance on progressing your research career (spoiler: it involves more forms)
👥 Who should attend?
Anyone who dreams of spending their life writing protocols, chasing ethics approvals, and explaining to their family what a “research delivery professional” actually does.
💻 Register now and receive:
– A Zoom link (because nothing says “cutting-edge research” like a glitchy virtual background)
– A PDF agenda that may or may not change last minute (flexibility is key, people)
– The chance to watch it later if you’re busy that day (because let’s be real, who isn’t busy avoiding their inbox?)
🔗 Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/aPvbj4yh5K
📧 Questions? Email: [email protected] (they respond faster than your grant application gets rejected)
⚠️ Warning: Side effects may include sudden urges to pursue a PhD, uncontrollable excitement over Gantt charts, and the belief that “capacity building” is a real thing.
#ResearchLife #NIHR #WebinarOfDreams #SendCoffee #AcademicHustle 🎓💻☕
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