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 ...
Read the storyChuen 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 ...
Read the storyJess 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 ...
Read the storyJeff 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 ...
Read the storyHo 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 ...
Read the storyGabriel 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 ...
Read the storyJared 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 ...
Read the storyRaven 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. ...
Read the storyGurpinder 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/) ...
Read the storyEd 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), ...
Read the storyCamilla 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 ...
Read the storyEllie 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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