{"id":567,"date":"2017-02-20T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/?p=567"},"modified":"2017-02-20T14:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:15:18","slug":"interested-in-working-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/2017\/02\/20\/interested-in-working-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Interested in working abroad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-568\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"568\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/2017\/02\/20\/interested-in-working-abroad\/work-abroad-session-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2017\/02\/work-abroad-session-2.jpg?fit=1328%2C747&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1328,747\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"work abroad session 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;good attendance at the workshop from our early career resarchers&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2017\/02\/work-abroad-session-2.jpg?fit=755%2C425&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-568 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2017\/02\/work-abroad-session-2.jpg?resize=755%2C425\" alt=\"good attendance at the workshop from our early career resarchers\" width=\"755\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2017\/02\/work-abroad-session-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2017\/02\/work-abroad-session-2.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2017\/02\/work-abroad-session-2.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2017\/02\/work-abroad-session-2.jpg?w=1328&amp;ssl=1 1328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">good attendance at the workshop from our early career resarchers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last Thursday, 16<sup>th<\/sup> February, saw the second of a series of informal meetings aimed at giving early career researchers, specifically Post-docs and final-year PhD students, further information about future career opportunities. The theme of this session was \u2018Working Abroad\u2019, with Dr Claire Clarkin, Dr Katrin Deinhardt, Dr Mark Chapman and Professor Vincent O\u2019Connor, all sharing their experiences and providing an insight in to working in America and across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Their experiences revealed that there are more things than where you want to live to consider when thinking of working abroad \u2013 although if you enjoy a surf or two perhaps moving to the west coast of America isn\u2019t a bad idea!<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there was advice about how to go about gaining a fellowship, which would help to work in a lab abroad as you bring your own funding to them.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the fellowships themselves, please follow the links below:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900\" href=\"http:\/\/www.embo.org\/funding-awards\/fellowships\/\">EMBO,<\/a><\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlook.soton.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=jiwWAiPRuC_LQsS5wc7IFNCNyGDXF_vYe-V5XDthlFIam5F_l1nUCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.embo.org%2ffunding-awards%2ffellowships\"> http:\/\/www.embo.org\/funding-awards\/fellowships<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hfsp.org\/funding\/postdoctoral-fellowships\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Human Frontiers<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlook.soton.ac.uk\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=fIx4IugzwHJxneD4QYQgEG09kysuitBGVn64NurHc-kam5F_l1nUCA..&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hfsp.org%2ffunding%2fpostdoctoral-fellowships\"> http:\/\/www.hfsp.org\/funding\/postdoctoral-fellowships<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This meeting was organised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/biosci\/about\/equality\/index.page\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">diversity and equality group<\/span><\/strong><\/a>: \u00a0thank you\u00a0Claire and Katrin!<\/p>\n<p>Blog written by <strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/biosci\/postgraduate\/research_students\/jkc2g16.page\">Joe Chouhan<\/a><\/span><\/strong> &#8211; member of the Reech committee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, 16th February, saw the second of a series of informal meetings aimed at giving early career researchers, specifically Post-docs and final-year PhD students, further information about future career opportunities. 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