#N8PostDocs 2021

From 20 – 24 September, join the N8 Research Partnership in celebrating ‘National Postdoc Appreciation Week’. The N8 universities are taking part in this national event, which is an opportunity to recognise and thank our postdoctoral researchers for the significant contributions that they make to our research and teaching environments. So from 20-24 September we’re launching our #N8PostDocs campaign on Twitter, and we need your help to reach and show our appreciation to the thousands of postdocs who work in our N8 universities.

How to get involved

Details of how university comms teams and academics can get involved are below, and also on the N8 website.

  1. Please circulate this webpage link, as a Toolkit, to all research academics and staff across the university, and ask them to participate in this N8-wide campaign from 20-24 September
  2. If you have a newsletter or other emails comms, please also add this as a news piece where appropriate
  3. Please drive participation with this campaign by tweeting about it, from this week up until 20 September, on your university and department Twitter accounts.

Actions you can take

Action 1

  • Print out the #N8PostDocs poster (PDF, 300KB) and fill in the name(s) of your chosen postdoc, plus a reason why you’d like to thank them for their support and hard work
  • Take a photo of you holding up the completed poster
  • Post on Twitter, tagging your postdocs to let them know you appreciate them
  • Please include hashtag #N8PostDocs, so that we can find and share your thoughtful post.

Example post:

Action 2

  • Post a ‘Thank You’ graphic to Twitter, tagging your PostDocs to let them know you appreciate them!
  • Please include the hashtag #N8PostDocs so that we can find and share your thoughtful post.

Example Twitter posts

To help share the campaign news piece:

To thank your brilliant postdocs:

  • It’s National PostDoc Appreciation Week! I’d like to thank my PostDoc researchers @TAGPOSTDOC @TAGPOSTDOC for their amazing work on some of our @N8Research programmes at @TAGDEPARTMENT. #N8PostDocs You’re the best!

Example graphic:

N8 Thank you postdocs example poster

Download a Word version of the example graphic (13KB)

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