I joined the RSC as a graduate publishing editor in July, and over the past five months I have settled in really well. I am fully trained in proof-reading, am nearing the end of my editing training and am due to start peer review in January.
It's an exciting time for us in the Interfaces team, as we have recently launched a new journal,
Biomaterials Science, and one of our other journals,
RSC Advances, recently published its 2000th article - a great achievement seeing as the journal is less than 2 years old. Many of the teams here are also growing and changing, a good reflection of the enormous growth that RSC publishing has seen over the past few years.
In addition to my day-to-day work, where I am constantly learning and developing new skills, I was recently given the opportunity to help out at a public lecture held at our
Chemistry Centre in Burlington House. This was a great chance to see some of the work done by the RSC outside of publishing and allowed me to represent the RSC to the general public. There are so many development opportunities like this available and I love that as part of the graduate scheme we are actively encouraged to take advantage of these.
It's the run up to Christmas and the office is starting to feel very festive! Last Friday we had a work Christmas party, organised by the Sports and Social Club. The theme was "Best of British" and everyone went to lots of effort with their fancy dress. Costumes varied wildly, with Mr. Blobby, Grenadier guards, Daleks, where's Wally and London underground stations to name but a few! We also have our all staff Christmas lunch at King's College in town this week, which I am really looking forward to.
So far my time here has been overwhelmingly positive and I am looking forward to becoming fully trained in all aspects of the publishing process.
Sarah Kenwright is a Graduate working in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Publishing Department. To see if there are any current vacancies go to 'RSC: Latest Vacancies' Blog or subscribe to 'RSC: Latest Vacancies' by Email
I joined the RSC as a graduate publishing editor in July, and over the past five months I have settled in really well. I am fully trained in proof-reading, am nearing the end of my editing training and am due to start peer review in January.
