Hassan Boudjelal, a student based at the UEA, wanted to gain experience working in a field completely unrelated to his previous experience or education and choose to do his placement at a locally based charity, the Sue Lambert Trust. This charity offers ...
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Sonia Paz, a student based at the UEA, wanted to explore the possibility of doing pharmacological-related science in a biotech company. Sonia undertook her PIPS with Sophion Bioscience a Biotech company whose HQ is in Demark and has research labs in Boston ...
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Judit Talas, a student based at the JIC, undertook her PIPS with Vertical Future Ltd as she wanted insight into a commercial research environment with a focus on crop development. Judit used an independent contact she had at the company and sent a speculative ...
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Mia Berelson, a student based at The Earlham Institute, wanted to learn about the world of science communication from the perspective of the facilitators rather than the scientists. She applied for a PIPS project with the Royal Institution (Ri) after ...
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Camille-Madeleine Szymansky, a student based at TSL, was hoping to gain and improve a wide range of transferable skills through her PIPS placement and so used a contact she had to set up her PIPS with Dr Carl Harrington and the outreach team at UEA. Madi ...
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James Docherty, an NRPDTP student based at QIB, is interested in pursuing a career related to bioinformatics and so wanted to use his PIPS to help with this. James applied for an internship at the Natural History Museum (NHM), led by Matt Clark, who is ...
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Jack Hales, an NRPDTP student based at QIB, has had an interest in infectious diseases and public health research and policy since secondary school so was keen to explore public health related research for his PIPS. He was able to organise a placement ...
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Keanu Walsham, an NRPDTP student based at the UEA, wanted to use his PIPS to gain exposure to career options outside of academia so applied for a PIPS placement with the European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine: EATRIS-ERIC, after seeing it ...
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Anna Colvile, a student based at the John Innes Centre, is considering training to be a secondary school teacher post-PhD so wanted to use her PIPS to get experience in a school setting. Anna organised the placement by contacting The Priory Learning Trust, ...
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Emily Smith, a student based at the UEA, was keen to explore academic-adjacent roles for her PIPS (non-lab based but still at ‘cutting-edge’ of science research). Emily saw an opportunity with Oxford University Innovation (OUI https://innovation.ox.ac.uk/) ...
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Jonathan Ford, a DTP student based at JIC, undertook his internship with Isomerase in Cambridge. Jonathan was made aware of the company by his secondary supervisor who is part of the senior management structure. Originally Jonathan was interested in finding ...
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Alexandra Siddall, a student based at UEA, wanted to undertake a local internship with a charity where she felt her work would have a positive impact. After seeing an opportunity advertised in the PIPS newsletter, Alex contacted the Norfolk Citizens Advice ...
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