Research impact and public engagement should be core parts of every skilled PhD, academic and researcher’s portfolio. To help you, jobs.ac.uk is holding a FREE 60-minute live video event via a Google+ Hangout on Air called ‘Research Impact & Public Engagement for Career Success.’ Find out more and register today.
The Researcher Development Unit will also be running courses and have some funding available for Public Engagement activities in the new academic year. Watch this space!
The eighth annual Life Beyond the PhD conference for doctoral candidates will take place at Cumberland Lodge, in Windsor Great Park, from 15th -18th August 2015. The conference is open to participants of all disciplines at any stage in their doctorate, and is designed to help both those embarking on doctorates and those considering what they will do in the longer term. During the conference, attendees will:
For full details of the conference please see the flyer here.
Participants will also have the unique experience of staying at Cumberland Lodge, a charitable foundation with over sixty years’ experience of working with students from across the world, and which each year hosts approximately 180 academic visits from universities across Britain.
For 2015, the Graduate School is able to fund two places for PhD/PGR students and one place for a postdoctoral researcher to attend the conference.
If you are interested in attending, please send a brief justification (200 words maximum) for your proposed attendance addressed to Professor Vaughan Robinson, Director of the Graduate School, to donal.caviston@kcl.ac.uk, with the subject title Cumberland Lodge, by the deadline of 5pm on 22 MAY 2015. The justification should explain how you think you would benefit from attending the conference and presenting a paper.
The Graduate School will cover the conference registration fee which includes all food and accommodation (in shared rooms). We will also cover reasonable travel expenses to and from London on presentation of receipts after the event.
The Society for General Microbiology is a membership organisation for scientists who work in all areas of microbiology. They are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic about microbiology and communicating its importance to policy makers and the public to join our Public Affairs team for a 3 month internship.
The internship offers you the opportunity to gain an understanding of science policy and the broader engagement work of a major learned society. You will develop transferable skills in networking, policy work, events organisation and communication. You will meet and work alongside science professionals from a variety of organisations, as well as researchers working across diverse areas of microbiology.
Based at their central London office at Charles Darwin House, which is also home to number of other bioscience learned societies, you will have the opportunity to:
The internship will run for three months, ideally starting July 2015, but the exact timing is negotiable. This will be an exciting time in science policy, being so soon after a general election. Knowledge of soil microbiology and food security issues is not required; an enthusiasm for microbiology and the contribution it can make to tackling global issues is more important.
A grant of up to £2750 is available to cover travel and subsistence incurred over the course of the internship.
Please contact their Policy Officer, Paul Richards (p.richards@sgm.ac.uk; 020 7685 2542) for further information. Apply by emailing your CV and brief cover letter detailing your suitability for the role to Paul Richards. Closing date: Monday 18 May 2015. Interviews will be held Wednesday 3 June 2015.
Please note that due to UKVI restrictions, they will not contemplate overseas applications unless there is clear evidence of existing permission to work in the UK. The Society for General Microbiology does not have a UK Border Agency sponsorship licence.
Social media and digital tools are now a staple of many researcher practices and have brought new dimensions to publishing, finding and organising information, problem solving and results sharing.
But what does it really mean to be ‘a digital academic’? How can you build your online academic profile via social media? Maybe you don’t think you have time or you don’t know what to do first. Do hiring committees actually care about your ‘digital academic impact’?
To help you identify the must-have technologies and tools for being a modern digital academic and the skills to manage them successfully, jobs.ac.uk and piirus.ac.uk are hosting an exclusive half-day workshop event.
This informative, detailed and practical workshop features a superb line-up of speakers including Dr Inger Mewburn from The Thesis Whisperer, who will share her top tips for building your online academic profile and managing a blog.
Find out more and book a place via their eventbrite page. Booking closes Friday 13th of March.
Reaching out to all those of you who tell me that they really want to stay in science and love to tell us lay public about it….. Head on over to FWB tomorrow evening to hear from a great range of speakers in this area.
Daniela Diefenbacher – from the Society of Biology – telling us what it’s like to lobby ministers about science