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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Camilla Molinari, a student based at TSL, had undertaken some outreach activities in a Cromer school during her undergraduate degree and wanted to use her PIPS to develop her skills further in outreach and science communication. She saw an advert for ...
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Ellie Hyde, a student based at the UEA, undertook her PIPS at the John Curtin School (JCSMR) of Medical Research at the Australian National University in Canberra. Ellie wanted to learn about research culture outside of the UK as well as learning about ...
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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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