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I’m the out-going PhD representative for the council. As I begin my post-PhD academic life, I want to continue to give back to the European STS community. As the PhD representative, I tried my best to give a voice to the concerns of not only PhDs but also to Early Career Researchers (ECRs), as I felt many of the concerns of PhDs, like precarity, also affect us long after our PhD contracts are up. This inclusion culminated in the creation of a new ECR representative on the council. I hope the community building that I strive for helps ECRs form connections in their time of most uncertainty and instability.
I was lucky to work on the ECR events for two conferences. I learned from Madrid and was able to improve on both the formal panel and the social aspects for Amsterdam. Seeing the turnout and the positive feedback makes me want to continue to foster the ECR community of EASST. If elected, I will do just that. In addition to building more opportunities for connection during meetings, I hope to contribute to the EASST community by developing more opportunities for ECRs, in particular for those who might not have such a community at their home institutions. It has been a greatly rewarding and a pleasure to serve you these past years and I look forward to finding new ways to do so in the years to come! (I have a couple of ideas that I cannot share just quite yet!)
