{"id":323,"date":"2016-11-22T20:37:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/?p=323"},"modified":"2016-11-23T19:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T19:15:38","slug":"2017-summer-placements-in-biological-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/2016\/11\/22\/2017-summer-placements-in-biological-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Summer placements in Biological Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"

22th November 2016<\/p>\n

\"career-growth-photo\"David Tumbarello held a workshop on undergraduate Summer placements on 21st November.\u00a0\u00a0All\u00a0\u00a02nd<\/sup> year undergraduate students are encouraged to\u00a0 contact \u00a0academic staff\u00a0 to explore\u00a0placements in biological sciences labs during\u00a0the summer 2017\u00a0for a period of 6-12 weeks.\u00a0\u00a0This is an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students to gain work experience in a research laboratory and\u00a0obtain \u00a0unique training in research skills as potential future scientists.\u00a0\u00a0 A placement can boost CV’s and can make student more employable.<\/p>\n

Would you like to know more about summer placement? – Read about the experience of previous student who secured summer placement here<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

There are numerous routes to obtain funding that mostly provide the student with a stipend, either through charitable organisations (Wellcome Trust, Alzheimer\u2019s Society, etc.) or through learned societies you may be a member of (Biochemical Society, Genetics Society, Physiology Society, Pharmacology Society, BSCB, etc.).\u00a0 The applications require the effort of both the academic supervisor and the student. A list of potential funding sources with links can be found in the excel sheet – see link below<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0(there may be others\u00a0that were missed) \u2013\u00a0 These deadlines range from around January through to early spring. vacation-studentship-opportunities_2016-17<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u00a0are looking for more general guidance on careers and support in applications for jobs and placements\u00a0please visit the career university site\u00a0 click here<\/span><\/strong><\/a> or watch a great video\u00a0with tips on \u00a0writing an application – click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0or a video made by our own communication students click here<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For more details contact David Tumbarello <\/span><\/strong>–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

22th November 2016 David Tumbarello held a workshop on undergraduate Summer placements on 21st November.\u00a0\u00a0All\u00a0\u00a02nd year undergraduate students are encouraged to\u00a0 contact \u00a0academic staff\u00a0 to explore\u00a0placements in biological sciences labs during\u00a0the summer 2017\u00a0for a period of 6-12 weeks.\u00a0\u00a0This is an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1730,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funding","category-studentships","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}