We’re very pleased to announce the Marine Biological Associations 20th post-graduate conference wass hosted where it started, in Plymouth in 2024!
To celebrate the conference ‘coming home’, 2024's conference was uniquely combined with the PlyMSEF conference. PlyMSEF is only usually available to postgraduates and early career researchers associated with Plymouth based institutes, therefore representing a very exciting opportunity for those outside of Plymouth to have a unique opportunity to have an insight into the outstanding research being undertaken in Britian’s Ocean City.
The 2025 Postgraduate conference planning is underway! Look out for more information coming soon.
I felt included and totally engaged. I especially enjoyed the interactive creative workshops around science communication which provided unique tips and tricks as a modern day academic. The conference was a safe space for young researchers to present their work and to connect with more senior academics and other likeminded researchers. The experience has made me more confident to present my own work in a conference style setting.
The MBA Postgraduate Conference is an initiative started in 2002 which aims to engage with, and make a contribution to, the marine biological post-graduate and early career researcher community. It is run for and by postgraduate students and early career researchers, and this highly successful conference not only provides a supportive environment to share their work but also acts as a catalysis for networking and building collaborations that often last a lifetime!
Each year a group of postgraduate students and early career researchers from an institute come together to form an organising committee and go on to create a unique event with support from the MBA. This opportunity to gain experience of running a conference is a valuable opportunity for the selected committee and allows them to develop the skills, experience and confidence they wouldn’t otherwise get.
If you are a postgraduate student and would like to be considered to run an upcoming postgraduate conference in 2025 please get in touch by emailing events@mba.ac.uk
