The Confluence: Cardiff Early Career Network Event

The Confluence: A Creative Networking Event for Early-Career Researchers

Water connects everything, our ecosystems, infrastructures, homes, and futures. From climate resilience and sustainable design to community wellbeing, innovation, and culture, water shapes research across every discipline.

The Confluence is a relaxed, creative, and cross-disciplinary networking event designed to bring early-career researchers together. Whether your work explores water directly, through science, engineering, or geography, or indirectly through health, policy, social science, or the arts, this is your chance to meet others, share ideas, and discover unexpected connections.

Come along to:
💧 Meet and chat with researchers from across Cardiff University
💧 Build new relationships and explore opportunities for collaboration
💧 Discover how your expertise connects to water-related challenges
💧 Enjoy a friendly, festive atmosphere with mince pies and nibbles

By the end of the afternoon, you’ll have made new connections, shared stories, and found fresh perspectives on how water links our diverse research communities, and perhaps even planted the seeds for future collaborations.

Who should attend:
PhD researchers, postdoctoral staff, early-career academics, and interested colleagues from all disciplines.

Hosted by: The Cardiff University Water Research Institute