King's College London Graduate School

Arts and Humanities researchers find out how to get an academic job

emmabaker — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:33:28 +0000

‘How to Get Hired in Academia’ kicked off the Arts & Humanities Researchers’ Society 2012 monthly seminar series focusing on career progression and professional development. Over 60 students were present, wanting to hear tips on how to get a lectureship position. Professor Andy Pratt (CMCI) and Dr Alice Taylor (History) shared their knowledge and experience of the application and interview process. One of the most sought after attributes are publications, and not just any publications but peer-reviewed articles in highly regarded journals. Other key elements of getting hired include reputation, teaching experience, strong references (preferably from famous academics in the field), a covering letter that makes you stand out, and luck. As the standards are increasing, it is common for Arts & Humanities researchers to take up post-doctoral positions to boost their CV in order to attain the requirements necessary for a lecturing position.

The next Arts & Humanities Researchers’ Society event is ‘Alternative Careers to Academia’ on Tuesday 21st February 1-2pm in the Old Senior Common Room, Strand Campus.

For the latest A&H Society updates see http://researcherssociety.wordpress.com/

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Want to work at the Olypmics?

emmabaker — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:47:32 +0000

The Careers Group, University of London are working in partnership with ARAMARK Limited, a contractor for the Olympic and Paralympic Athletes Village in Stratford.

To be part of this once in a lifetime opportunity please pre-register as below and attend our recruitment day on Friday 3rd February 2012.

We are recruiting for the following vacancies:

Catering supervisors – previous supervisory experience required
Front of house staff – no previous experience required, the right behaviours are key
Back of house staff – no previous experience required, the right behaviours are key

We are looking for students and graduates who are available to work full time from July 2012 to September 2012

Please register and apply via this link: http://bit.ly/xBPnBi

If you have any questions please email us at temps@careers.lon.ac.uk

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Preparing for an assessment centre?

emmabaker — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:36 +0000

Spring is the time of year when many high volume recruitment companies run their assessment centres. These are the slection days where you are up against other candidates in activities such as group exercises, psychometric tests, presentations and e-tray exercises. If you’re likely to be going to an assessment centre, you can get help preparing at Kings Careers Service’s Assessment Centre Week (23 – 27th January). Companies involved include:

IBM

Ernst & Young

CIMA

Deloitte

Citi

Freshfields

For more details, visit the Careers Service webpages

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Are you a budding Bioentrepreneur?

emmabaker — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:48:11 +0000

The first KCL event of 2012 for the Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable will be held on January 19^th, where serial entrepreneur Dr Yen Choo (of Plasticell and Progenitor Labs Ltd) will share his experience and provide advice to budding entrepreneurs. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn a great amount about bioentrepreneurship as well as meeting the OBR team members to experience first-hand what OBR is all about.

Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable (OBR) is a network of students, academics and professionals from across disciplines such as science, business, medicine and law. The objective of OBR is to connect industry and academia fostering biotech innovation and commercialization. It provides exposure to young idea-holders from across the UK both with one another, and with industry resources needed to move their ideas forward. Especially, OBR seeks to tear down barriers between people interested in the life sciences industry.

Funded in summer 2011, the organization is rapidly expanding and already has over 2000 members from Imperial, UCL, Kings, MRC, UCL, Cambridge and Oxford. In addition, other London-based universities such as Queen Mary University, ICR will be new collaborators of OBR in the near future. As a student community, the organisation is offering numerous opportunities to collaborate and learn through our online publications, business development workshop and speaker series. At each of our affiliated institutions, visionary leaders from biotech, pharma, finance, law, and entrepreneurship share their insight with students, post docs and young academics. The brilliant idea of OBR is to build a wide network and engages members via a three-pronged approaches:

Education: Offering various seminars, workshops, panel discussions and networking opportunities with unique industry perspective
Industry Immersion: Providing industry internships to allow exposure of young motivated and talented Oxbridge students to industry partners
Communication: The OBR online blog, the roundtable review, promotes communication between campuses across geographies

To provide students a practical opportunity/workshop to get involved in phama business, KCL is organising on February 24th in collaboration with the management consulting firm Catenion, a strategy board game for students to explore and challenge their business knowledge/skills.

Since OBR is just at the beginning of their activities in London, the organisation is continuously seeking for novel additions to the existing portfolio of partners, which includes amongst others the technology transfer offices Imperial Innovations and Isis Innovation, the b-2-b networks OneNucleus and OBN, as well as a range of biotech companies such as Oxford Nanopore Technology. OBR is keen to expand their network at KCL and is open to motivated and talented students who want to make a tremendous impact on the life sciences. Students who want to contribute to OBR in any area reaching from business development, through events management to consulting are welcome to contact the OBR team at KCL.

Upcoming OBR-London events:

How IP turns scientific breakthroughs into profitable ventures (Feb 9)

Risky Business: The Pharma Game (Feb 21, 22, 24)
The biotech debate: “This house believes UK biotech is dead” (Mar 16)

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Arts and Humanities Researchers’ Society Event

emmabaker — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:45:16 +0000

The Arts & Humanities Researchers’ Society is a new initiative set up by researchers for researchers.

Schedule of 2012 events:

(Always Tuesdays, 1-2pm in Old Senior Common Room)

How to Get Hired in Academia – 17^th January

Alternative Careers to Academia – 21^st February

Understanding Postdoctoral Options – 20^th March

Public Engagement: What is it and how do I do it? – 24^th April

Academic Publishing: Suggestions and Tips – 15^th May

We hope the seminar series will offer new ways of thinking about our research and professional development, and provide an opportunity to meet new people across the school.

The aim of the Researcher’s Society is to create an active, supportive and collaborative interdisciplinary community for Arts & Humanities early career researchers.

If you have any suggestions or ideas of what we can provide, or events you would like to see, please let us know. Also, if you would like to get involved in any way, by serving on the committee, or helping out co-ordinating events, get in touch with me via email (laura.speers@kcl.ac.uk).

We hope the society is a useful resource and offers an open forum to discuss Arts & Humanities researcher issues.

For more information and the latest updates see our webpage http://researcherssociety.wordpress.com/

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Latest Research Job Vacancy: Senior Analyst Mo Ibrahim Foundation

emmabaker — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:10:11 +0000

Email Elizabeth McGrath with CV and covering letter by 24/01/2012
applications@moibrahimfoundation.org

Salary: £28,000 – £34,000

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is looking to recruit a highly competent, proactive and self-driven person to fill the position of Senior Analyst. Working in close collaboration with the small Research Department she/he will contribute to the effective and efficient production and delivery of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance and Ibrahim Forum. The suitable candidate will demonstrate experience in collecting, computing, analysing, interpreting and presenting statistical data, and producing written research findings.

Skills, Competencies, Experience and Qualifications:
• Advanced university degree (Masters degree or equivalent) in economics, development studies, political science, social science or related field;
• Minimum of 4 years experience;
• Experience in research methodologies, statistical methods and analysis, including the presentation of statistical data;
• Interest in, and knowledge of, African development and governance;
• Fully IT and Internet literate. Excellent computer skills, particularly MS Office package (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point) and statistical packages (SPSS, Stata);
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English language required, other United Nations languages highly desirable);
• Ability to translate technical information for a non-technical audience;
• Strong organisational skills;
• Detail-oriented with an ability to manage time well;
• Demonstrated capacity to handle a variety of multiple concurrent activities;
• Comfortable working as part of a team but also able to work well independently;
• Self-starter with a proactive attitude and who can anticipate needs.

Please note that flexible working hours and international travel may be required for this position.

More information on the Ibrahim Index and Ibrahim Forum can be found at: http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org

For more vacanies like this, visit http://jobonline.thecareersgroup.co.uk

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Careers Events in the New Year

emmabaker — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:11:52 +0000

Have you made a new year’s resolution to do something about your career? Here’s a couple of events coming up this year that might help:

Fundamentals of Career Management: 13th January 2012

An opportunity to consider your next career move, whether you definitely want to stay in academia, or are considering other options. To book a place, visit the Graduate School website here

Assessment Centre Week: 23 – 27th January 2012

Find out what to expect at an assessment centre & how you can improve your performance. Visit the Careers Service webpages for more details

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Website to help you create a CV

emmabaker — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:26:20 +0000

www.vitae.ac.uk is an excellent website for PhDs and postdocs

There is a useful careers section: www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1270/Careers.html

that has examples of academic CVs and also CVs for researchers looking to leave academia. There is also a whole section with statistics on what previous PhD students have done when they complete: http://www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice/14769/What-Do-PhDs-Do.html

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Call For Papers The 2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2012) will be held from 19-21 May 2012 in Yantai, China.

sarahlouq — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:37:41 +0000

The 2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2012) will be held from 19-21 May 2012 in Yantai, China. Submission Deadline is 6 January 2012.

ICSAI 2012 aims to be a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of systems engineering and information science. Topics include (but are not limited to):

Systems

Control and Automation Systems
Power and Energy Systems
Intelligent Systems
Computer Systems and Applications

Informatics

Communications and Networking
Image, Video, and Signal Processing
Data Engineering and Data Mining
Software Engineering

The registration fee of US$400 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions. ICSAI 2012 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.

All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as the IEEE Xplore (IEEE Conference Record #19873; IEEE Catalog Number CFP1273R-CDR; ISBN: 978-1-4673-0197-8). Substantially extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a SCI-indexed journal.

Yantai was listed as one of the world’s most inhabitable places by the United Nations and was recognized as the “most charming city of China” by China Central Television. Undulating hills rise above the area’s many rivers and are framed by beaches and neighboring islands. Famous tourist attractions include the Tashan Mountain, Kongdong Island, and Penglai Pavilion Scenic Area. Seafood and fruits are plentiful in Yantai.

For more information, visit the conference web page:

http://ICSAI2012.ytu.edu.cn

If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at ICSAI2012@ytu.edu.cn

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Legal Teaching and Research Fellow vacancy

emmabaker — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:10:51 +0000

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg is looking for a Legal Teaching and Research Fellow for projects in Sudan and South Sudan under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfrum.

The MPIL is a research facility which is part of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, an independent, non-profit research organization that primarily promotes and supports research at its own institutes. Within the framework of its research activities, the MPIL carries out several “Global Knowledge Transfer Projects” abroad. With a view to supporting constitution-building processes and to strengthening the rule of law and democratization efforts, the MPIL also conducts several projects in Sudan and South Sudan (see www.mpil.de/red/africa).

Project fellows are engaged in technical legal consultancies, the organisation of conferences and legal capacity building programmes;
Fellows also prepare teaching materials focused on international law and comparative constitutional law and conduct workshops in the respective countries.

Desired Experience and Required Qualifications:

Advanced degree in law (preferably the second German state exam or comparable advanced degree in law);
Profound knowledge of public international law, constitutional law and/or the legal systems of Islamic/African countries;
Ability to deliver high-level academic work;
Ability and willingness to travel frequently to Sudan and South Sudan;
Fluency in English required (written and oral);
Computer literacy skills with standard software;
Excellent interpersonal, communicational and intercultural skills;
Proven ability to work in a team;
Well-organized, flexible, skilled in setting priorities and meeting deadlines, and able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously;
Ability to communicate in German on a professional level desirable;
Knowledge of Arabic a distinct advantage;
Previous teaching and/or work experience in developing countries desirable.

The salary and benefits follow the guidelines for German public service employees (TVöD).

Applicants also have the opportunity to pursue a doctorate. The appointment is initially limited to one year. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer and encourages qualified men and women, including those with disabilities, to apply.

Please submit a resume and cover letter to transfer-application@mpil.de by 23 December 2011.

Please quote The Careers Group, University of London JobOnline in your applications. Top tips for covering letters, CVs and applications can be found at http://www.careers.lon.ac.uk

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