Deadline: applications must be received by midnight Friday 28th June 2019.
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PIPS opportunity – The Royal Institution (RI) – deadline 1 July 2019
The closing date for receipt of applications is midnight on Monday 1 July and interviews are scheduled to be held on Thursday 11 July.
The Royal Institution (Ri) is looking for an intern to start in late September 2019 to assist the Ri team with administering and delivering its programme of masterclasses. This placement will involve working with the Ri during its busiest and most exciting time of year and would be ideal for anyone interested in learning more about maths enrichment activities in an educational setting, and STEM communication more generally. It is a full-time 12 week placement working Tuesday to Saturday, based in Central London with the requirement to travel to Masterclass sessions in London and the South East. Students will therefore be expected to base themselves within or near to London for the period of the placement. I understand that some funding bodies/DTPs offer expenses for this purpose.
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For more information about our internship programme and details on individual placements, timeframes and how to apply, CLICK HERE
PIPS opportunity – Academy of Medical Sciences Grants and Programmes for 2019-20
The Academy of Medical Sciences is pleased to open applications to our Grants and Programmes internship scheme for internships in 2019/20.
The scheme is open to BBSRC-funded PhD students through the PIPS scheme.
Students spend three months at the Academy offices in central London. The scheme is designed to give students first-hand experience of the research funding and career development sectors, and to build valuable networks with the UK’s most eminent medical scientists and senior science and health stakeholders.
More details can be found at https://acmedsci.ac.uk/about/administration/internship-schemes.
Contact:
Dr Kim Hutchings
International Grants Manager
The Academy of Medical Sciences
41 Portland Place
London W1B 1QH
+44 (0)20 3141 3234
Rebecca Hall prize winner!
Rebecca Hall began her PhD as part of the DTP 2015/16 cohort at the University of York. Her project title is: The microbiome of the tsetse.
She has presented her work at numerous local and national events to universal acclaim. Within the department at York she has won KM Stott Prizes for both her 1st year poster presentation and her final year talk as well as a Science Faculty Prize for PhD Spotlight competition at YorkTalks. She also won a White Rose BBSRC DTP prize for the best final year talk.
2018 Symposium Successes!
Our latest White Rose BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) Symposium was held in December 2018, hosted by The University of Sheffield.
Women of Achievement 2018: Dr Katie Field
Highlighting the accomplishments of Dr Katie Field
Dr Katie Field is a supervisor at the University of Leeds – an example of the high calibre staff supporting our PhD students within the White Rose BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership. 
Dr Field, an Associate Professor in the School of Biology, is a superb scientist with extraordinary capacity for interdisciplinary innovation and has internationally-recognised expertise in symbioses between plants and fungi.
Katie was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Biological Sciences in 2017 for her research on the diversity and evolution of plant-fungal symbioses. These prestigious prizes recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers, whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising.
Advice on how to transition from PhD to Senior Lecturer
See the following link for advice from Helen Coleman, who is a senior lecturer in cancer epidemiology at the Centre for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast.
Career advice for students considering a career in academia
While you are on the Times Higher Education website, it is worth browsing as you will find plenty of advice, blogs etc of relevance. You will need to register before you can read any articles.
Issue 2 of our student-run DTP Newsletter
Our DTP students have produced the second issue of the DTP newsletter. Many thanks to the editorial board and all our student contributors for all their hard work. Please take the time to read this, on the last page there is info about how to get involved and submit your own contributions for future issues.
Read it here:
Dragon’s Den Winning Teams
Our second year students worked together in cross-institutional teams to develop business ideas, which they presented to a panel of expert innovation and industry ‘Dragons’ at the Fera Training Day. There were moments of sheer brilliance, fun and a little bit of terror when faced with the Dragon’s questions. The Dragons were impressed with the students’ research into the commercial aspects of their business idea and it was difficult to choose a winner but after much discussion the Dragons were able to select the winning and runner-up teams.
Here are the teams receiving their prize from our External Advisory Board member Rose Maciewicz, VP Strategy Respiratory and Inflammation iMed at AstraZeneca:
Philip Kirk, Leeds
Sarah Flannery, Sheffield
Paul Bond, York
Oliver Prosser, Leeds
Matt Chadwick, Leeds
Marcus Holt, Leeds
Jenny Hayes, York
Tom Burns, Sheffield
Oliver Herd, York
Sarah Good, Leeds
Prizes galore at our DTP Research Symposium in York
The White Rose BBSRC DTP Research Symposium was held at the University of York on 15th Dec 2017 and showcased the work of our third year and final year students. This was organised by a committee of our DTP students, led by York student Lewis White, and was a great success.
We would like to congratulate all the students for their high quality presentations and posters, which were very well received by the symposium delegates. The winners of the presentation and poster competitions were very well deserved and had to fight off stiff competition from their fellow students.
Here are all the winners receiving their prize from our External Advisory Board member Rose Maciewicz, VP Strategy Respiratory and Inflammation iMed at AstraZeneca:
Giovanna Pesante, York
Jordan Talbot, Sheffield
Joseph Ward, Leeds
Caitlin McQueen, York
Emma Stewart, York
Job advice from Sarah Blackford
See Sarah’s post on the importance of your personal network when looking for a job:
She regularly adds new posts here:
All our third year DTP students have the opportunity to attend a career planning session with Sarah Blackford at the Fera Training Day on 20th Nov 2017. Sarah is an academic career consultant with a background in bioscience research and scientific publishing. Qualified with a master’s degree in career education and guidance, Sarah has over 15 years’ experience of delivering specialised career support to PhD students and early career researchers in the form of career development workshops and one-to-one coaching. Her workshops, which are based on her book, “Career planning for research bioscientists”, include career issues such as self-awareness, how to make informed career choices, the job market and finding opportunities outside of academia, networking and communication, CV writing and successful interview technique. Sarah believes that effective personal career development lies at the heart of a successful and fulfilling career.
DTP Newsletter – run by students for our students
Our DTP students have formed an editorial team to produce a DTP Newsletter as a way of improving the communication and networking between our three universities. The Editor in Chief Caitlin McQueen says:
‘We hope that this newsletter will help build friendships throughout the three universities to achieve a real sense of support and involvement outside of the arranged sessions we attend during the year.
The really exciting part about this newsletter is that it is completely student run- this means that if you have something that you want to talk about, or a suggestion for a future section/recurring article, you have the ability to do so! I really think this newsletter has the potential to get us all helping each other in labs, sharing techniques and woes, but also to get everyone involved in our “other lives” not quite so freely shared with each other- so if you’re fundraising for charity, wanting some support for your band, or your sports team, please use this opportunity to get us all supporting you!
In our first issue we will be talking to some PIPs survivors to get some advice and inspiration for potential placements, we will have some scientific features articles from the cohort and a feature on the recent second year visit to the Research Complex at Harwell in Oxford. We will also be saying goodbye to our first round of PhD students and will be catching up with a few to see what they have lined up post thesis submission’
You can read the first issue of the Newsletter here:
The second issue of the Newsletter is currently in production. Please look out for requests from the Editorial Team – all help gratefully received!
New DTP Newsletter – Run by students for students
A new student-led DTP Newsletter will be launched shortly. Please look out for invitations from the editorial team to submit your own news items. The Newsletter will contain useful information directly relevant to yourselves including scientific features, interviews, information about PIPS and future careers as well as news items from your fellow DTP students.
Prize winning DTP Students
The White Rose BBSRC DTP Research Symposium was held at the University of Leeds on 15th Dec 2015 and showcased the work of our final year students.
We would like to congratulate all the students for their high quality 3 min thesis presentations and posters. The winners of the 3MT and poster competitions were very well deserved and had to fight off stiff competition from their fellow students. Here are all the winners receiving their prize from Robert Hardwick, BBSRC:
White Rose Brussels Office launched
The White Rose University Consortium is delighted to announce the launch of the White Rose Brussels Office. The office will work with key stakeholders on areas of research excellence supported by EU funding and which align with current EU research priorities. The office will also spot areas of strategic importance as well as strengthening name recognition of the three universities.
The launch events, attended by key members of the European Commission as well as international business and research agencies, have focussed on key areas of global research that Leeds, Sheffield and York excel in – sustainability, food security and health and wellbeing.
Speaking about the launch, Professor Koen Lamberts, the University of York’s Vice Chancellor and President, said:
“The Brussels Office will do a great job for the University of York – and its partners in Leeds and Sheffield – in positioning us for research funding and opportunities for our students in Europe. The office will work hard to promote the tremendous knowledge economy of Yorkshire.”
Professor Sir Keith Burnett CBE FRA, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield, commented:
“The University of Sheffield’s world-class research has pioneered new approaches in areas such as advanced manufacturing, food sustainability and security, and integrated health and social care. Much of this is being achieved with our international partners, particularly in Europe.
“The White Rose University Consortium’s new Brussels office will support our long-term strategic goals to undertake internationally-leading scholarship which delivers genuine benefits to society, including improved health, economic growth and a deeper understanding of our world.”
Sir Alan Langlands, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, said:
“Ensuring we align our world-leading research with current EU priorities is vital. This office will not only raise the profile of the White Rose university consortium, but also enable us to demonstrate the exceptional breadth of our research, its real-world impact, and how we are investing in cutting-edge facilities to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges.”