This blog series provides a space for Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs), practitioners, and policy-makers to share reflections on how emerging researchers engage with science advice and policy processes in practice. Contributions explore questions of incentives, training, opportunities, and institutional cultures, as well as the real-world dilemmas, trade-offs, and learning that shape EMCR participation in science–policy interfaces.

Rather than offering prescriptive solutions, the series aims to surface grounded experience and critical reflection, helping to strengthen collective understanding of when, how, and why EMCR engagement can enhance policy-making, while recognising the diversity of national and organisational contexts.

Contribute to the series!

We invite researchers (especially Early and Mid-Career researchers themselves), practitioners and policy-makers to contribute to this series by directly responding to any of the published pieces or by offering your own reflections. In keeping with INGSA’s informed yet pragmatic approach, we particularly value specific illustrations of dilemmas, promising practices or potential solutions that you have encountered anywhere in the world.

If you would like to contribute to the series, then please get in touch through [email protected], with a short (150 word) indication of the arguments you wish to make or experiences and reflections you wish to share.