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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION INTERNSHIP 2016 The Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) is offering an internship for a postgraduate student/early career scientist to gain experience in press and publicity during the period 13th June - 7th July 2016. The placement will be suitable for someone who is seeking a career in science journalism, scientific administration, or as a publicity officer. Applicants with some experience of non-academic science writing will be given priority. Working under the guidance of the supervision of the head of Education & Public Affairs, the main activities will be to: * Write press stories from the SEB's Annual Main Meeting (Brighton 4 - 7th July 2016) in advance of the Meeting. * Identify potential news stories from the meeting abstracts and interview speakers ahead of the meeting in order to produce interesting, eye-catching press notices. * Send out the press releases to the media using Eurekalert (training given). * Attend the SEB Meeting in Brighton as its press officer: to liaise with journalists and science editors, organise interviews, take publicity photos, attend relevant talks and visit posters, and write additional news for release during the meeting. * Assist in the organisation and running of the Education programme during the Meeting if required. You will need to be self-motivated with excellent communication and time management skills. You are encouraged to work remotely for the most-part of the internship, however, you will be expected to visit the SEB office (in London or Lancaster) at the start of the internship (2 days) to liaise with the head of Education and remain in close contact throughout the duration of the placement. You will also attend the SEB Meeting full-time from 3rd - 7th July 2016 inclusive. All reasonable travel, accommodation and living expenses will be paid. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop your experience of science communication (previous winners have secured jobs as news editors, science writers and publicity officers). To register your interest for this post please email Sarah Blackford (Head of Education & Public Affairs), with your CV highlighting your science communication experience and skills (including any examples of your science writing), and stating why you are applying for this post. [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Closing date: 29th April 2016. Sarah Blackford, BSc, MA CIEGHE Head of Education & Public Affairs Society for Experimental Biology Bailrigg House Lancaster LA1 4YE www.sebiology.org<http://www.sebiology.org/> https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sarahblackford +44 1524 594850 ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] If not subscribed, either subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com or send reqests for items to be posted on your behalf to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe (or silence messages while away) send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************