The UK Polar Network (UKPN) promotes and enhances polar research in the UK as an early career network and voluntary committee.
Our activities support:
Polar Early Career Researchers (ECRs):
We empower early career polar researchers in their research by building skills development, inclusive research, collaboration and communication (both within research and outside it). ECRs can join the UK Polar Network for free to be the first to hear about opportunities.
Young people and the general public
We make polar education more accessible, engaging, diverse and inclusive through high quality, innovative education and outreach projects and activities. You can read more about our education and outreach work:
The wider polar research community
We represent the views, needs and priorities of early career researchers and drive change across the community to ensure long-term capacity building for polar research.
These activities are led for our 600+ members by a volunteer committee of around 40 early career researchers. We are the UK branch of the Association of Early Career Scientists (APECS), and after being established in April 2007 as part of the Fourth International Polar Year (IPY), we are now a Community Interest Company (CIC, no 16112719).
To be the first to hear about our opportunities, you can join the UK Polar Network for free: