Monthly Archives: May 2010

[Job] Understanding Animal Research vacancy, Online Content Producer, ??28-??32k, clos 6 June #scicomm jobs

One for science communication people with web writing skills and an understanding of the role of animals in medical research. If you work in a medical charity UAR is a useful resource for information about regulations of animal research, and how a… Continue reading

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[Job] Diabetes UK vacancy, Media Officer, ??27k, clos Tue 2 June #scicomm jobs

Only a couple of days left for this one as even though I work there I rather failed to notice that we were advertising it. Oops.http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/Jobs/Media-Officer1/ – see page for application form and guide to completing the ap… Continue reading

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Most of the #scc2010 conference tweets, downloadable as .htm file

I decided to post this to the @ScicommJobs Posterous rather than my own as I certainly think ‘awareness of the field’ is a useful part of career development ;)This is a transcript of the majority of #scc2010 tweets from the British Science Associa… Continue reading

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[Internships] cc @absw Help Me Investigate blog offers short term internships – support journalist and a community mgr

Help Me Investigate is a bit cool – it’s ‘crowdsourced investigative journalism’ where people can sign up and find something out, and share it for others to write about. I participated in one on 0845 numbers.I’ve put the job descriptions below – e… Continue reading

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[Job] British Lung Foundation vacancy, Publications Editor, ??30k, clos 28 May #scicomm jobs

The British Lung Foundation is looking for a Publications Editor – looks like there could be a nice bit of science communication there.The Publications Editor reports to the Director of Communications, however this post is currently vacant (see jo… Continue reading

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[Job] Royal Statistical Society vacancy, Coordinator for science journalism training, up to ??35k, clos 31 May #scicomm jobs

hat tip to @bengoldacre ‘s Twitter feed for this one. Hopefully whoever gets this will also get an opportunity to do some sort of situated / ethnographic study / stakeholder engagement thingy… know your quarry and all that 🙂 Otherwise it’s thro… Continue reading

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Student Competition to attend UK Conference of Science Journalists

Bet the hashtag will be #ukcsj… :)Begin forwarded message:To: PSCI-COM@JISCMAIL.AC.UKSubject: [PSCI-COM] Student Competition to attend UK Conference of Science JournalistsReply-To: “psci-com: on public engagement with science” Continue reading

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[Job] Parkinson’s UK vacancy, Research & Development Manager, ??34.7k, clos 3 May #scicomm jobs

I’ve just posted another job from this charity, but in case you didn’t see that post, have amended and repeated a bit of background text below.Parkinson’s UK (formerly Parkinson’s Disease Society) recently advertised a Research Communications Mana… Continue reading

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[Job] Parkinson’s UK vacancy, Media & Comms Officer, ??28k, clos 5 May #scicomm jobs

Parkinson’s UK (formerly Parkinson’s Disease Society) recently advertised a Research Communications Manager post in December 2009 http://scicommjobs.posterous.com/job-more-on-the-parkinsons-disease-soc-vacanc. This Media and Communications Officer… Continue reading

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[Job, Bristol] Meningitis UK vacancy, Marketing & Communications Officer, ??23k, clos 17 May

Not to be confused with a job from the Meningitis Research Foundation I’ve just posted – they’re based in Bristol as well. This is not an overtly science communication job but pretty much any time a medical research charity communicates a fundrais… Continue reading

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