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Higher Education, Business and Industry Team



I joined the RSC at the end of September as a Science, Education and Industry Graduate and it feels like it has been 3 weeks rather than three months. I am in my first rotation in the Higher Education, Business and Industry team and it has been great as I have been working on a variety of projects from undergraduate research bursaries to data management.


One project that I have particularly enjoyed is the joint RSC and Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Summer Bursary Scheme as I learned a lot in a very small space of time. As well as working with the Nuffield Foundation, it was also a cross team project within the RSC to produce the documents and details for the webpage and application form.

I have also been working with the large collection of the data the RSC possesses and trying to find a way of making the data more interactive for staff to manipulate for their needs. Although it may not sound particularly exciting, it actually is very interesting and hopefully the end product will be user friendly for everyone at the RSC.  I have had a lot of fun looking at the different ways to display data including one which method which uses breakfast cereal characters in the demo.

I moved to Cambridge from Glasgow after spending nine years at the University of Strathclyde and I have settled in really well. I am still getting used to the fact that it is much flatter (no more hilly campus to navigate in the winter) and that fog is more of a problem than rain! After leaving a friendly and social PhD group, I was glad that RSC is very similar with lots of social activities including the fancy dress Christmas party.


 Melissa Black is a Graduate working on the Royal Society of Chemistry's Graduate Scheme. To see if there are any current vacancies go to 'RSC: Latest Vacancies' Blog or subscribe to 'RSC: Latest Vacancies' by Email

Posted by Melissa Black on Dec 19, 2012 3:19 PM Europe/London

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