Will Macken, Nicky Whiffin, Charlotte Durkin and Jamie Ellingford: Early Career Researchers navigating the field of genomics

This week on the G Word, our host Will Macken, is joined by a
panel of Early Career Researcher (ECR) representatives to discuss
how ECRs can navigate and position themselves within the
ever-changing field of genomic research.


Will is a clinician and researcher at the University College
London Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Great Ormond
Street Hospital. Will is also an ECR representative on the
Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership board. In
this week's episode he's joined by:


Nicky Whiffin, Associate Professor and Sir Henry Dale Fellow
at the University of Oxford, and Quantitative Genomics
representative on the Genomics England Clinical Interpretation
Partnership board

Charlotte Durkin, Head of Programme at the Medical Research
Council, and

Jamie Ellingford, Lead Genome Data Scientist for Rare Disease
at Genomics England.



 


"There can be people that just pick up basic skills to analyse
the dataset that's in front of them that they've spent months in
the wet lab trying to generate. Through to people who are proper
software engineers and will be writing unit tests to test every
single line of that code. I don't think it really matters where
you sit on that continuum as long as it works for you, and it
aligns with your future career progressions and what you want to
be in the future, essentially."


You can read the transcript here: Early-Career-Researchers.docx


You can find the information on resources, events and support for
ECRs mentioned on this podcast on our website.


We've got free-to-attend monthly research seminars, and Research
environment training sessions for those who have joined the
Genomics England research community - find out more and register
for our next sessions here.


Email us if you have any questions:
gecip-help@genomicengland.co.uk.