By Jack Nash
07 November 2025
Traditional publishing models can create barriers for early career researchers, which can delay career progression. This includes lengthy review cycles that can limit opportunities for early career researchers to develop professional skills and experience with peer review, editorial collaboration, and scientific communication. Open research platforms, such as Wellcome Open Research, offer alternative pathways, providing practical environments where early career researchers can build career-relevant skills through collaborative open research practices. This approach creates additional opportunities for professional growth, allowing emerging researchers to gain […]
By Guest Author
04 March 2020
Helping fellow early career researchers seek new research opportunities and networks through open research. In this Q&A, Cherry Lim, a member of the Early Career Researchers advisory board for Wellcome Open Research, shares her aim to achieve this goal.
By Guest Author
16 January 2020
In this Q&A, Fiona Cresswell shares her excitement to be on the Early Career Researchers Advisory Board for Wellcome Open Research and her hopes for changing the future of publishing for the better.
By Guest Author
22 October 2019
For Open Access Week 2019, the Early Career Researchers Advisory Board members share their thoughts on open access and how they think it benefits science and the community as a whole.
By Jack Nash
25 June 2019
Earlier this year we sought an early career researcher advisory board, and we proudly present the group to you now. Here is this energetic and creative group of researchers that will help shape the future of Welcome Open Research, and in turn the future of scholarly communications.
By Jack Nash
04 March 2019
Last year when our Advisory Board met, there came a point in the meeting where everyone agreed that the board would be enhanced with an injection of individuals who could best represent the many Early Career Researchers (ECRs) supported by Wellcome. It was there and then we made the decision that WOR would create a […]
