Obrizum Group

Virtual or at the Cambridge Office

Closing Date 01 November 2024

OBRIZUM Group was established in 2015 to transform digital learning. We are a Cambridge-based EdTech company at the forefront of the AI-led digital learning revolution.

Our founders, who all have a life science background, discovered that the amount of information we need to consume and apply is increasing exponentially. However, existing eLearning methodologies — which present information linearly — cannot scale with this rapidly increasing body of global knowledge, and will eventually collapse.

Recognising this market need, we have developed an AI-led adaptive learning tool, OBRIZUM, that can tailor learning to meet the needs of each learner in real time. When it comes to learning, we don’t believe in ‘one-size-fits-all’: our technology allows learners to take their own, unique journey through content, increasing knowledge transfer and reducing times-to-competency.

Our cutting-edge adaptive, non-linear approach represents the future of digital learning and corporate training, and we are looking for motivated, capable interns who share our values to join our team.

Lead Contact 

 

Name              Michelle Ware, PhD

Email              michelle@obrizumgroup.com

Tel. No.           07791481346

Project Title

Develop adaptive learning programmes for internal training.

 

Project Outline 

 

As the company scales there is a need for producing our own adaptive learning training in areas such as onboarding new team members, soft skills training and health & safety.

Activities will include:

Manage the delivery of our internal training

Build digital learning programmes using AI tools

Get creative with the way we present the content and introduce interactivity

Create learning content such as multiple choices questions

Test and experiment with our portal and relaying your findings to the team

 

Essential Skills 

 

We ask that our interns:

 

Have a scientific background

Are highly organised and motivated

Have the ability to communicate strongly both in writing and in person

Possess excellent project management skills

Are capable of working well independently, as well as part of a team

 

Skills Developed 

The student will gain a greater understanding of how digital learning programmes are developed using cutting-edge AI technology. By the end of their internship, they will be confident with all aspects of creating a successful digital learning programme. The intern will also have a deep understanding of how non-linear, adaptive learning works and how this way of learning is disrupting corporate learning.

Key skills developed include organisation, problem-solving, and project management.

Number of placements offered: multiple

 

Possible Timeframe 

 

The start date is flexible: we accept intern students throughout the year.

Placement can be virtual or at the Cambridge office.

Obrizum Group

Virtual or Cambridge Office

Closing Date 01 November 2024

OBRIZUM Group was established in 2015 to transform digital learning. We are a Cambridge-based EdTech company at the forefront of the AI-led digital learning revolution.

Our founders, who all have a life science background, discovered that the amount of information we need to consume and apply is increasing exponentially. However, existing eLearning methodologies  — which present information linearly — cannot scale with this rapidly increasing body of global knowledge, and will eventually collapse.

Recognising this market need, we have developed an AI-led adaptive learning tool, OBRIZUM, that can tailor learning to meet needs of each learner in real time. When it comes to learning, we don’t believe in ‘one-size-fits-all’: our technology allows learners to take their own, unique journey through content, increasing knowledge-transfer and reducing times-to-competency.

Our cutting-edge adaptive, non-linear approach represents the future of digital learning and corporate training, and we are looking for motivated, capable interns who share our values to join our team.

Lead Contact 

 

Name              Michelle Ware, PhD

Email              michelle@obrizumgroup.com

Tel. No.           07791481346

Project Outline 

 

Intern projects will support the onboarding processes of creating adaptive on-demand training programmes for Blue-Chip clients. Projects will be flexible depending on the needs of the onboarding department at the time and the interests of the intern.

Activities could include:

Supporting the creation of eLearning programmes on our adaptive learning portal for various Blue-Chip clients, including biotech companies

Working with a content partner to create programmes for retail

Helping to create learning content such as multiple choices questions

Testing and experimenting with our portal and relaying your findings to the team

Working with our in-house business intelligence tool to gain insights into the performance of programmes

Promoting biotech programmes to scientists

 

Essential Skills 

 

We ask that our interns:

 

Have a scientific background

Are highly-organised and motivated

Have an ability to communicate strongly both in writing and in person

Possess excellent project management skills

Are capable of working well independently, as well as part of a team

 

Skills Developed 

The student will gain a greater understanding of how eLearning programmes are developed. By the end of their internship, they will be confident with all aspects of creating a successful eLearning programme. The intern will also have a deep understanding of how non-linear, adaptive learning works and how this way of learning is disrupting corporate learning.

Key skills developed include organisation, problem-solving, and project management.

Number of placements offered 

 

Possible Timeframe 

 

The start date is flexible: we accept intern students throughout the year.

Placement can be virtual or at the Cambridge office.

Glasshouse Health

Macclesfield

Closing Date 01 November 2024

Glasshouse Health is a life sciences consultancy that bridges the gaps between healthcare companies, patients and the medical community.  We have expertise in strategy, brand planning, clinical trials, market access, medical affairs, and marketing.  Our projects typically involve either paving the way for new drugs, devices, diagnostics, or digital solutions, or facilitating the adoption of marketed products so that they achieve their full clinical and commercial potential.   We have global reach from our locations at the internationally recognised Alderley Park campus in the North West of England, and from Kendall Square in Boston USA, which together give us access to world-leading centres for research and innovation.  It also provides opportunities to leverage a range of scientific services and high-specification workspaces to facilitate collaboration with tech companies and other forward-thinking, innovative businesses.  We have a huge amount of combined experience and expertise at our disposal, which we employ to create value for our clients.   For healthcare companies, we typically provide strategy guidance and operational support for the development and commercialisation of products and services.  For patient organisations, we provide advice on how to partner effectively with healthcare companies, to help improve the products and services developed to treat those conditions.  For the wider medical community, we provide advice on how to partner with healthcare companies on R&D initiatives and joint ventures that benefit the health system and/or patients.  For health tech start-ups, we provide advice on how to approach the development and commercialisation of healthcare technologies; we help them develop their value proposition statements, go‑to‑market plans, and investor pitch decks.  For health tech investors, we provide due diligence regarding product development plans, value proposition statements, and go-to-market plans.

Project Outline The work is varied. Recent projects have involved obtaining and analysing real world data in collaboration with a hospital department and writing it up for publication in a journal, gathering insights from clinicians and payers regarding the commercial potential of a device in development and writing a report for prospective investors, interviewing rare disease patients/clinicians about the standard of care in their therapy area to understand how prescribing could be improved, and developing a new value proposition for an implantable medical device. The role could be remote or hybrid with occasional visits to clients or the office at Alderley Park, Cheshire. Required hours are 35 each week within which there will be a need to attend team/client meetings. Essential Skills We are looking for an intern who is keen to gain experience of working as a strategy and med comms consultant. The ideal candidate will be undertaking a life sciences PhD and be prepared to undertake a broad variety of tasks. The role requires an ability to understand new information rapidly (about a new therapy area or healthcare technology, for example), good interpersonal skills to facilitate positive client interactions, strong attention to detail when processing qualitative and quantitative data, analytical abilities to derive meaning from primary and secondary research, and well‑developed written and spoken presentation skills to deliver reports and updates to clients. Skills Developed Strategy Marketing Medical communications Project management Client engagement

Number of Placements Offered Up to three placements are available, depending on the number and nature of projects underway. Possible Timeframe The opportunities are available throughout the year.

Application Process

For further details, email meg.smith@glasshousehealth.com.

Lead Contact

Name – Meg Smith

Email address – meg.smith@glasshousehealth.com

Phone number – 0161 327 2644

Website - https://www.glasshousehealth.com/

PIPs opportunity with CABI Global Burden of Crop Loss programme

Remote or hybrid

Closing Date 01 November 2024

Organisation
Name	CABI
Team	Digital Development
Placement base location	Remote or hybrid Offie location: CABI Head Office, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford OX10 8DE
Website	https://www.cabi.org/
Contact	Dr Anna Szyniszewska (Technical Lead – Global Burden of Crop Loss)
Contact details	Email:  A.Szyniszewska@cabi.org                  Telephone: 07944698117

 

 

Internship
Job title	Technical Development Intern - Global Burden of Crop Loss
Potential start date	Flexible
Potential working pattern	Daily work pattern: Flexible (core hours 10 – 12 and 2 - 4). Total hours per week: 35                                                               FT/PT: Full Time
Application method	To apply, please send a CV and cover letter outlining your expression of interest and how your skills match the requirements to Dr Anna Szyniszewska (A.Szyniszewska@cabi.org)
Application closing date	Ongoing

 

 

Organisation overview

CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) is an international not-for-profit organization that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. We bring science-based agricultural knowledge to millions of smallholder farmers helping to increase their yields and adopt data-driven approaches to support informed decision making. CABI is the only organisation worldwide that incorporates a dedicated publishing arm and an independent science media organisation alongside conducting its own scientific research and applying practical expertise in digital and other approaches to reach farmers and other stakeholders. Digital Development in CABI is comprised of several themes of work, including Data Policy and Practice, Digital Advisory Tools, and Modelling and Data Science. Under Modelling and Data Science, the Global Burden of Crop Loss (GBCL) initiative is an ambitious global research collaboration that will support informed action to reduce crop loss globally.

 

 

Placement offered

An internship with CABI and the GBCL team will be a highly rewarding experience to help develop the proof-of-concept estimates on wheat loss and economic burden globally, for at least one year on a country/regional level. This is an exciting time for GBCL – we are rapidly forming partnerships, developing solutions, and refining our analytical framework. Interns will therefore be able to have a strong contribution to a highly ambitious initiative that aims to have a transformative impact on plant health. The global challenge of crop loss The impacts of biotic and abiotic factors on crop yield are significant, with around 20-40% of the world’s major crops lost to pests alone (Savary et al. 2019). While it is clear that crop loss causes significant impacts on food systems globally and that reducing losses represents a major opportunity to increase yields with minimal environmental impact, we lack robust evidence on the problem to mobilize action. Data on the scale, scope, spatial patterns, and drivers of loss are outdated, lacking in granularity, not shared, or missing altogether. Scientists often focus on a limited number of pests and geographies and often work in isolation, resulting in small pockets of disconnected information that are often not easily accessible to other researchers and decision makers. Without knowing how much of our food supply we are losing, where we are losing it, and what we are losing it to, actors across the plant health system lack clarity on how to take effective action and on which interventions to prioritise. Internship The 3-month internship may involve various aspects of technical development across the GBCL initiative. Which areas you may focus on will be mutually agreed during the application process. There are many exciting areas you could be involved in, including:  modelling the impact of biotic and/or abiotic factors on crop losses, supporting the development of crop growth models, developing layer representing predominant global farming systems, and much more! The themes of our analytical framework include: Attainable yield in context Actual crop production and yield Yield loss Apportioning losses: biotic vs. abiotic Costs of control Burden This internship would suit a student who is interested in developing their data analysis and technical skills, and who is interested in the interface between science, policy, and decision-making. Please note, if you are specifically interested in working with crop growth models, specifically the impacts of extreme weather on crop yields, there is scope to undertake a joint internship with CABI and Assimila (www.assimila.earth). Assimila use satellite data and weather information to address real world problems. They work closely with leading universities and institutions to translate cutting edge research into practical applications, developing innovative techniques to transform data into useful information for sustainable environmental management. Essential skills Knowledge of plant health or agricultural systems Data analysis, visualisation, and reporting Spatial analysis/GIS Proficiency in at least one statistical programming language, such as R or Python Investigative and analytical with a willingness to embrace new approaches and technology Good quantitative skills (maths or statistics) Curious and creative Flexibility when faced with change Accurate; attention to detail and quality Desirable experience Experience with crop statistics and crop growth models Experience using earth observation data Working knowledge of crop pests and pathogens

 

 

Financial contribution/benefit(s)

CABI are not able to provide any financial contribution or benefit. Expenses related to the role (e.g., travel for work purposes) will be reimbursed.

Policy Placement at John Innes Centre

Norwich

Closing Date 03 May 2024

A PIP placement is available within the John Innes Centre in Norwich to support its policy and public affairs work. You will work closely with the JIC’s Head of Strategic Engagement on our growing programme of policy and public affairs activity.

What you will work on specifically will depend on your interests and when you are able to undertake the placement, but topics we are currently working on include regulation of genetic technologies, food security, the role of agriculture in addressing climate change, and antimicrobial resistance.

Activities you could be doing include:

• working with staff across the JIC to draw up policy position statements
• writing responses to Government consultations and calls for evidence
• preparing internal briefings on relevant policy announcements
• organising policy round tables or visits to the site from politicians
• working with the Comms and Engagement team to help convey our policy messages to wider audiences
• working with partner organisations on the Norwich Research Park on joint activities

Over the course of the placement you will learn about the role that academic organisations play in shaping government policy and the different routes to contribute to policy development. You will gain experience of preparing targeted materials for policy makers and planning proactive public affairs campaigns in priority policy areas.

If you are interested in discussing opportunities in this area, please contact Dr Eva Gordon-Sharpe, Head of Strategic Engagement at the John Innes Centre.

eva.gordon-sharpe@jic.ac.uk

Sense About Science

London Office, although some flexibility

Closing Date 31 January 2024

Sense about Science is an independent charity that promotes the public interest in sound science and ensures evidence is recognised in public life and policymaking.

We offer rewarding internship opportunities for PhD students to gain experience of working in a busy campaigning charity across science communications, policy and public engagement. We typically offer three-month placements in our London office and only consider short-term internship applications as part of a funded scheme, such as the PIPS professional internship scheme for PhD students. Further details about our internships can be found here Vacancies - Sense about Science.

An internship at Sense about Science is a  rewarding experience, as no two days are the same. It is a fulfilling  way to get across communications, policy and public engagement, and  issues of research quality, developing key professional skills and  contacts that will serve you well in your future.

You will work across many of our projects and programmes  – including Evidence Week, the John Maddox Prize, Voice of Young Science workshops and Making Sense Guides.  This will depend on the timing of your placement, but you’ll always be a  critical member of the team. We typically have at least two interns in  our London office.

Royal Botanical Gardens Kew - Placement Opportunities

London/Sussex

Closing Date 31 December 2023

Kew have developed a portfolio of suggested placement ideas that a student could take part in. Below is the link to the webpage:

Placements for PhD Students | Kew

On the website the different teams/departments that are open to hosting PhD placements/internships are listed. Underneath this, PDFs are linked to show more information about the placements that are currently available within that team. There are a broad range of opportunities available.

Two projects have specific deadlines:

Developing a book of Madagascar grasses – deadline 6^th October 2023

Community Open Week 2024 – deadline 31^st October 2023

All of the placement opportunities require the student to submit their CV and a 500-word statement of interest - see the webpage for more details.