Work Placement Opportunity in the Cabinet Office – Funded through the Flexible Supplement

The opportunity has arisen to experience a work placement with the Cabinet Office’s Open Innovation Team which has been set up to accelerate innovation around Whitehall by deepening collaboration with academics and others outside experts. These will be three month placements. The team works across Whitehall and covers a wide range of priority policy areas including industrial strategy, mental health, childcare and digital transformation.

The ‘Open Innovation Team’ are particularly interested in applications from PhD students with an interest in health policy, including mental health, work and health, health tech and health service reform. A job description is attached Cabinet Office Job Description

This opportunity will run as a competition two times a year, with 2 placements per round.  If this is something you would be interested please apply by sending a CV and a 1 page covering letter to MRCDTP@medschl.cam.ac.uk by Friday 14th December 2018 at midday.

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Take part in #YES18 this autumn and spend three days immersed in developing enterprise skills; thinking creatively to produce innovative solutions to major challenges; discovering how to communicate research with impact; and becoming work ready.

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2018 MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Award

The 2018 MRC Max Perutz Science Writing Award will open on Wednesday 2 May, with a closing date of Wednesday 4 July. As most of you know, the award asks MRC-funded PhD students to write an 800-word article for a non-scientific audience, explaining why their research matters. This year is the 21^st anniversary of the competition, and we want to encourage as many students as possible to enter!

As with previous years, the winner will receive a prize of £1,500 and their article will be published on the MRC Insight blog and the MRC website.

Please find attached the Max Perutz competition poster – hard copies have been posted to you, but feel free to distribute via email/publish on your intranet. Attached is also a smaller promotional tile that can be added to your intranet.

For further promotion, please also direct your students to the Max Perutz competition webpage: www.mrc.ac.uk/skills-careers/studentships/for-current-mrc-students/max-perutz-science-writing-award/the-competition/