Employability

Forestry England: Being summer (if in name rather than weather), Forestry England in the New Forest is looking for volunteers to put their boots on and help with as much or as little as they like: https://www.forestryengland.uk/new-forest/volunteering-the-new-forest.

Take part in BTO’s wetland bird survey https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/webs/taking-part  

Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships 2019 Nine summer studentship projects on plant health are available for bioscience undergraduates. The selected students will work with leading plant health researchers, gaining great experience as well as receiving a bursary. The projects will run for 10 weeks over summer 2019. The studentships are arranged by the UK Plant Sciences […]

Internships with the wildlife trust – these were advertised a while ago, but sadly we had only 1 applicant from Biological Sciences. Debbie from the wildlife trust and I arrange these internships each year, with biosci students in mind. We are ideally looking for 3rd or 4th year students, to spend 10 weeks part-time on […]

2nd year students – The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust have 3 year in industry places left. The remaining 3 placements are: Computer science placement – across the GIS, Biometrics and IT departments (1 placement) Upland research unit, North Pennines: Langholm (2 placements) Applications must be received by 15th March for the computer science placement […]

The Conservation Career Starter Residential is being held over the first weekend in April (6th – 9th inclusive) at the fabulous Juniper Hall Field Centre, Dorking, Near London. This is a very special four day residential training course designed to increase their chances of employment within the competitive conservation sector.    The residential will help people to […]

The Southampton Hub organise volunteering opportunities for students (UG, PGT and PGR) in local schools and community organisations. They are currently recruiting volunteers: Schools Plus – apply to tutor now Spend 1-2 hours a week tutoring local young people in lessons or leading clubs – we have projects covering all subjects and based in primary schools, […]

Date for your diary – The big bang careers fair (for UK young scientists and engineers) is on 13th-16th March at the NEC, Birmingham https://www.thebigbangfair.co.uk/careers/real-jobs/biology/  

Sandwich placements with Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust – 13 ecology placement opportunities Geographical Information Science (GIS) and Wetland Research (2 placements) IT placement – across the GIS, Biometrics and IT departments (1 placement) Farmland Ecology Unit (FEU) (2 placements) Lowland Game & Wildlife Research (LGR) (1 placement) Upland Research Unit, North Pennines: Langholm (2 […]

Careers in the field, as sent in by staff contributor of the week, Becky Morris (thank you Becky!). This tells you where ecology might take you https://www.rsb.org.uk/images/Events/Chris-Jeffs-Careers-in-the-Field—RSB-Careers-Day2.pdf   Student ambassadors – 50 new ambassadors will be recruited in January. Jess Spurrell, School-University partnership officer, says “The online application form will open at 8am on Monday […]