Caroline Jarvis, a Quadram Institute student completed her placement during the last three months of her second year with the Open Innovation Team (OIT), a cross-government unit which works with experts to generate analysis and ideas for policy, helping ...
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Katherine Hampton, a UEA PhD student, wanted to learn about intellectual property (IP) within science and so set up her placement with ip21 who she had met at NRPDTP’s annual Host Forum. ip21 offer a full range of intellectual property services including ...
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Cesaree Morier-Gxoyiya, Delfi Dorussen and Tom Lock, second year PhD students at the John Innes Centre (JIC) completed their PIPS with MARPLE diagnostics (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) in Kenya and Nepal with the placement project being to train ...
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Chuen Lee, a third year PhD student based at the University of East Anglia wanted to use his PIPS to gain insight into careers focusing on science communication. He spent 12 weeks with the Communications and Marketing team at Applied Microbiology International ...
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Jess Peers, an Earlham Institute PhD student, wanted to use her PIPS to learn about the different roles that exist in industry and to see how she could apply her research skills in an industrial environment. She spent 12-weeks with Fauna Bio both working ...
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Jeff Ojwach, a 3rd year PhD student based at the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia undertook his PIPS at the Clem Jones Centre for Neurobiology and Stem Cell Research on the Gold Coast, Australia. The overall aim of his placement ...
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Ho Yu Liu, PhD student based at the Quadram Institute, recently returned from her PIPS at Isomerase, a biotechnology research organisation in Cambridge. Ho Yu said, “I decided a placement in industry would be most beneficial to me as I had no experience ...
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Gabriel Astorga, PhD student on a BBSRC Doctoral Training Programme at the Quadram Institute recently taught and managed workshops to master’s and undergraduate students covering good research practice skills, molecular biology and R training at Pwani ...
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Jared Carpenter, a third year NRPDTP PhD student at the John Innes Centre, and a University of East Anglia (UEA) Master of Mathematics graduate, was recently interviewed by ITV Anglia on his experiences of education as an autistic pupil. “It was so ...
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Raven Reynolds, a student based at QIB, undertook her PIPS at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew as a Communications and Operations assistant manager in the Learning and Participation department after seeing the opportunity advertised in the PIPS newsletter. ...
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Gurpinder Singh Sidhu, a student based at the JIC, wanted to gain experience in a business/ research support environment. After seeing an opportunity in the PIPS newsletter, Gurpinder applied for a PIPS with Iceland Ocean Cluster (IOC https://www.sjavarklasinn.is/en/) ...
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Ed Bridge, a student based at the JIC, wanted to improve his technical lab skills, expand his network of contacts and learn about how scientific industry is run. Ed used personal contacts that he had to secure a placement at Better Dairy (https://betterdairy.com/about-us), ...
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