Postdoc Appreciation Week 2019

From September 16th to 20th we celebrated the first University of Manchester Postdoc Appreciation Week, an internal initiative that was linked to the initiatve founded in 2009 by the National Postdoc Association. The aim was to raise awareness and celebrate the incredible achievements of our >2000 diverse postdoctoral researchers, who are vital to reaching the Faculty’s research, teaching and social responsibility goals.

Overall, the Postdoc Appreciation Week was a huge success with 17 events University-wide, more than 600 attendees and a social media campaign that reached >1.6M twitter users from >12 countries. Our efforts were also recognised internationally: The (American) National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) Elsevier National Postdoc Appreciation Week (NPAW) award subcommittee has selected our events to receive a 2019 Elsevier NPAW best new event award.