Jenna Helleur, a student at the Quadram Institute, undertook her PIPS with BrisSynBio at the University of Bristol after reading about the opportunity in the PIPS Newsletter. BrisSynBio is a multi-disciplinary research centre that focuses on the biomolecular ...
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Alicia Russell, a student at the John Innes Centre, wanted to gain knowledge and experience of the different work that is being carried out to help combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR). After looking at the list of ‘warm’ leads available on the MyCareerCentral ...
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Agatha Treveil, a student at the Earlham institute, wanted to investigate the career possibilities relating to Public Health and data analytics, including increasing her understanding of the structure of Public Health bodies in the UK, role of the local ...
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Alice Dore, a student in the School of Biology at the University of East Anglia, wanted to gain experience of working in the third sector and to expand her analysis and communications skills, and so used her PIPS to work towards these aims. Alice consulted ...
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Ann-Marie, a student at the Quadram Institute Bioscience, had a keen interest in experiencing research in a museum setting and therefore choose to complete her PIPs placement at the Natural History Museum in London. Ann-Marie found her placement through ...
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Cristina Alcon went to Hellesdon Hospital for her PIPS placement. Cristina has always been interested in knowing more about the wider roles in the NHS and so set up the internship using her own contacts. “I wanted to learn more about data management ...
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Claire develops her business skills with internship at Santander Claire Hews, a student at the University of East Anglia, wanted to experience a role outside of academic research, with the aim of learning how the skills that she develops during her PhD ...
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Wes Fowler, a student at the University of East Anglia, wanted to learn and improve his ability to code so he took the opportunity to use a personal contact at Aviva to set up his internship in their Claim Data Science department. The role of Claims Data ...
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Erika Coletto, a student at the Quadram Institute, went to the Institute of Biorobotics, part of the Sant Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy for her PIPS placement. The BioRobotics Institute is an integrated system pursuing frontier research, ...
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Marina takes her PIPS to Mexico Marina Corrado, a student at the QIB, had always wanted to gain an understanding of the work of non-profit research organizations but had not previously had the opportunity so she focussed on this when deciding where to ...
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Rebecca Devine, a DTP student based at the University of East Anglia, wanted to gain experience in Science Policy and so applied for one of the prestigious RCUK Policy Internships. After successfully going through the application process Rebecca secured ...
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Hannah Brown, a student at TSL, was keen to improve her written science communication having undertaken some outreach activity previously. Her TSL supervisor had contacts at CropLife International so she approached them speculatively at the start of her ...
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