Our students and early career researchers are provided with a bespoke training programme, alongside the high-quality programmes already offered at Imperial College London, UK Health Security Agency, King’s College London and MRC Toxicology Unit at the University of Cambridge, to ensure they are equipped with the right skills and experience to become first-class researchers and future leaders in their field.

The Joint Academic Career Development Programme, led by Dr Fred Piel and Dr Stephanie Wright, supported by the Joint Academic Career Development Committee, develops activities supporting the HPRU students and early career researchers' academic progress, facilitate a broad training experience, organise academic events (e.g. annual postgraduate symposium to showcase student work) and bring the students’ perspective to the HPRU management structures.

The Joint Academic Career Development Committee consists of representatives from each of the partners in the HPRUs and MRC Centre, and student and early career researcher representatives. Its role is to support the development of a robust multidisciplinary programme for training the next generation of environmental health scientists affiliated with these units.