Social Opportunities
We encourage colleagues to get together socially, and because our building is designed with
collaboration in mind, it’s easy to make social interactions a part of the day to day.
We have collaboration areas for informal conversations, and a subsidised onsite restaurant and
café. A few nights a week, the café becomes a bar for a few hours.
We also have a variety of established staff-run groups and networks with new ones starting up
regularly. Some of these are purely sporting or social, others combine social activities with
discussions around a particular area of science, and some are dedicated to representing the
interests of particular groups of people.
These groups sit alongside the research interest groups which every researcher is encouraged to join
to keep track of developments in their field.
The Crick’s sport and social club is called Cricksters. It organises a range of free events for
staff members to get to know each other outside of work and is open to everyone who works at the
Crick.
Cricksters organises a wide selection of regular events for Crick staff, from sports such as tennis,
squash, yoga and Pilates to clubs focused on crafting, board games, films and more. It puts on
regular quiz nights and ceilidhs, as well as working with other staff groups to organise weekend
trips. The network supports Crick staff who have ideas for new events, clubs or sports teams and
helps them to get their ideas off the ground.
Social Opportunities
We encourage colleagues to get together socially, and because our building is designed with collaboration in mind, it’s easy to make social interactions a part of the day to day.
We have collaboration areas for informal conversations, and a subsidised onsite restaurant and café. A few nights a week, the café becomes a bar for a few hours.
We also have a variety of established staff-run groups and networks with new ones starting up regularly. Some of these are purely sporting or social, others combine social activities with discussions around a particular area of science, and some are dedicated to representing the interests of particular groups of people.
These groups sit alongside the research interest groups which every researcher is encouraged to join to keep track of developments in their field.
The Crick’s sport and social club is called Cricksters. It organises a range of free events for staff members to get to know each other outside of work and is open to everyone who works at the Crick.
Cricksters organises a wide selection of regular events for Crick staff, from sports such as tennis, squash, yoga and Pilates to clubs focused on crafting, board games, films and more. It puts on regular quiz nights and ceilidhs, as well as working with other staff groups to organise weekend trips. The network supports Crick staff who have ideas for new events, clubs or sports teams and helps them to get their ideas off the ground.