Postgraduate & early career

For postgraduate and early-career researchers, The Society offers a range of schemes to help develop your skills and career. From funding to attend scientific meetings and schemes to organise symposia, to skills workshops and a science writing prize, we aim to help increase postgraduate employability.

Below is an outline of some of the support available.

The Young Physiologists’ Symposium (YPS)

YPS offers PhD students and recently qualified postdoctoral workers the chance to organise a scientific symposium. The Society provides sponsorship, but the scientific content, format and social events are decided entirely by the early-career organising committee. If you are interested in organising a meeting, more details can be found here.

The Young Life Scientists’ Symposium (YLS)

The Physiological Society co-sponsors YLS alongside the Biochemical Society and the British Pharmacological Society. Teams of early-career researchers can apply to organise a symposium on a scientific theme and format of their choice. All that is required is that the theme is relevant to each of the three sponsoring societies.

Applications for 2012 have now closed, but see the 2011 website to give you an idea of what can be achieved.

Travel grants for early-career researchers

Early-career researchers can apply for grants to attend scientific meetings. For more information see the grants page.