Jobs at Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge
May 28, 2009
Advance the chemical sciences and see your career advance too. There’s no bigger organisation in Europe involved in the promotion of Chemical Sciences than the RSC, with activities spanning education, conferences, science policy and the promotion of chemistry to the public worldwide. The time and money we will invest in your career means that when you join the Graduate Training Scheme at the RSC you’ll find yourself right at the heart of all these exciting developments. Whether you are helping to shape policy, editing publications or getting involved in marketing, you’ll develop skills and knowledge that will serve you well throughout your career. If you have an honours degree, Masters, PhD or equivalent and you are looking for a bright future please visit our website at www.rsc.org/graduatejobs
IOP Graduate Lounge Opening 16th June
May 27, 2009
You are invited to attend the formal opening of the IoP’s Graduate Lounge in the Addiction Sciences Building, Denmark Hill campus on Tuesday 16th June at 12.30pm. It will be opened officially by Institute Secretary, Richard Barnard.
Psychometric Testing
May 27, 2009
Terry Jones will be running a psychometric testing session next Friday morning in the Graduate School training Room at Waterloo.
The session will consist of 3 consecutive tests in Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Reasoning and Spatial or diagrammatic reasoning. your results will be scored against a norm group and feedabck on scores offered. The tests are the so-called GAP series published by Saville and Holdsworth.
There are a couple of places left. So you can apply through the RDP programme on the graduate school website – or email
Research Scientists
May 21, 2009
Working in the area of crop pest control. Syngenta.com are looking for a formulation chemist and a Biokinetics research scientist.
Details on the Prospects.ac.uk website or direct to the company www.syngenta.com
Arts Administration Course
May 19, 2009
Here is the line-up of speakers on the course running on 9th June. There are still places available
See www.careers.lon.ac.uk and look for ‘Courses’
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Sadler’s Wells – Education Project Manager The Albany Theatre – Creative learning Manager Benjamin Franklin Museum – House Admin & Ops Manager BAC – Box Office Manager & Acting General Manager and Head of Administration Design Museum – Head of Development & Development Manager Whitechapel Art Gallery – Administrator Clase Fine Art Gallery – Art Gallery Director The Prince’s Drawing School – Young Artists Programme Manager London Notting Hill Carnival (LNHC) – Ex CEO British Council – HO Communications & HO Operations Shape – disabled and deaf people and the arts – Chief Executive Cirque Nova – Founder of Company
Music Fundraising role
May 13, 2009
A few more details on Development Trainee role in Birmingham
A rare new opportunity to gain experience and training in arts fundraising, working at the heart of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG).
Development Trainee: 12-month post, 3 days/week, £6,300
Application deadline is 5 June. For further information visit http://www.bcmg.org.uk/jobs
Internship for War Studies PhD Students?
May 13, 2009
AKE Summer Internship Scheme 2009 AKE is looking to recruit interns for its summer remote internship scheme, running for three months from 6 July. Applicants should have an excellent command of written English, a demonstrable background in international politics or security, as well as a Masters Degree or equivalent experience. As this is a remote programme, you must have reliable internet access. Please note that this is an unpaid scheme. Email a CV and writing sample not more than 350 words to intel@akegroup.com . Please state your availability and note if you have a specific regional or topical expertise. The deadline is 22 June. You will then be tasked to assess your suitability for the scheme.
Jobs being advertised
May 12, 2009
Couple of interesting ads going around at the moment: Procter and Gamble are advertising their graduate vacancies and a boarding school in Sussex – Brambletye – are looking for a director of Music.
Also the Careers group are looking for some-one to develop their careers consultancy service, C2. None of them are mainstream PhD jobs – but they may be of interest to someone out there…..
The SSWEP ( No, I hadn’t heard of it either) are offering some placements exclusively for PhD students. Organisations involved include local authorities, not-for-profit organisations and social enterprises.
These are paid placement for 8 weeks during the summer.
The method of application is to register on the website
And apply directly to the opportunities they find there.
If you would like to know more, email
enquiries@stepenterprise.co.uk
Teaching Adults
May 7, 2009
Come to our Information and Advice Open Day Saturday 6 June 11am -1pm Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL London needs more teachers to help hundreds of adults and young people leaving school, to gain skills for work; improve their personal skills; support their children’s progress and expand their confidence and abilities.
Interested? Find out more about training to teach adults by attending our open day where you will have the chance to speak to an advisor, meet course providers and discuss career opportunities.
Register your interest at www.teach-adults.com
This event is managed by the London Strategic Unit at NRDC
