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Hi Taz, You could also look at our graduate scheme – I’m sure it will open to applications again soon: http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/rscwork/Graduates/rsc-grad-scheme.asp Kind Regards, Katherine Katherine Hyett International HR and Recruitment Manager Royal Society of Chemistry Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road Cambridge, CB4 0WF, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432441 My Twitter: http://twitter.com/chemistry_jobs My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/katherine-hyett/0/a1/568 Follow the Royal Society of Chemistry: www.rsc.org/follow<http://www.rsc.org/follow> Winner of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise, International Trade 2013 From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tarandeep Jagdev Sent: 12 March 2014 13:36 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Entry Level Science Communication roles / freelancing work advice Hi Jo, Many thanks for your prompt and comprehensive reply! It is very much appreciated and contains some really useful information and links! In particular, I do like the idea of approaching academics and asking to showcase their work. I have done freelance work in the past like this and I think this could be a really rewarding line of freelance work. I am really grateful again for all your help! I will certainly check out the information you have proposed, I am sure it will be really helpful in one form or another! Best wishes, Taz On 12 March 2014 12:47, Jo Brodie <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hi Taz - good luck with your quest. My impression is that, as you've found, it's quite a struggle to find entry-level jobs in this area. Also there are a lot of people looking for them, and many with a lack of experience... caused by a lack of entry-level jobs (I'm sure there are other factors). It's my belief - might be wrong - that the charity sector seems to have more openings for beginners in scicomm, and that also come with a reasonable salary. It might be worth investigating some of the environmental charities if that's where your enthusiasm lies. I've made a collection of the vacancies pages<http://brodiesnotes.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/amrc-member-charities-websites.html> of a variety of organisations that are likely to employ science communicators - obviously I'm biased but I think it's a good way both to start finding vacancies listed and also to get an idea of the range of employers and 'genres' (charity, museums, learned societies, publishers etc) doing science communication-type things. It's London-heavy as that's what I know. It's also likely to be full of errors, instantly out of date and a bit bloated - but it's still pretty good. On occasion when the muse strikes I sometimes run through the vacancies pages and export jobs information to http://scicommjobs.wordpress.com but the psci-com mailing list is the better place to hear about current vacancies. Also have a look on Twitter for tweets with #scicomm in them as people post jobs there too. Another thing that's occurred to me while typing is that a number of larger research projects at university now seem to come with their own website. Often this is done in-house but it might be worth looking at the relevant funding research councils and Uni news pages to see who's got funding in an area of interest to you - maybe offer your freelance services to help them set up their online public engagement "stall" with some words, pictures and videos or whatever suits. Might be a crazy idea, literally just thought of it ;) Be aware though that academics get an awful lot of spam emails offering them websites and top billing on Google! Best wishes, Jo (psci-com owner) On 12 March 2014 12:10, Tarandeep Jagdev <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hi All, With apologies for spamming the inbox of those who this e-mail does not relate to, I am a graduate (well, since three years ago!) looking for a way to get my foot in the door in the science communication world. I graduated with a Biology with Science Communication degree and have since undertaken some healthcare PR work, although my greater love Biology-wise is the environmental sciences. Currently I do admin work as a day job but have begun to tutor a couple of people in the sciences. With that in mind, I am really keen to explore how I can immerse myself in the world of science communication, preferably with an entry level job role where I can really put my skills, experience and qualifications to good use! Does anyone know a good way to explore finding such roles (or, indeed, if anyone has any vacancies they know about)? Alternatively, I am also looking for freelance roles - again, any advice would be greatly appreciated on this. I have extensive experience in copywriting (my main skill area), as well as multimedia production and editing - radio and film inclusive. I would greatly appreciate any advice, sent to this e-mail address and not to the whole list (unless relevant). I have found it tough to get into the science communication world as a young professional thus far but would be gladly rid of this restricting attitude! Many thanks for your help! Wishing you all a lovely day! 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