Current Opportunities
- The Brilliant Club
The Brilliant Club provides PhDs and ECRs training in widening participation, research communication, and teaching. Researchers are then paid to deliver academically rigorous programmes to small groups of pupils in state schools across the UK.
To help fit alongside their other commitments, tutors indicate their availability on a termly basis.
Placements are paid from £550 per placement, with an additional £121 for designing a Scholars Programme course (plus London weighting). Travel expenses are also paid.
There are two programmes researchers can get involved with: The Scholars Programme and The Brilliant Tutoring Programme.
On The Scholars Programme, tutors are trained to create a course based on their own academic research pitched at pupils in Key Stage 4 or 5. Tutors also have the opportunity to deliver a pre-designed programme to younger pupils aged 8-10. They deliver this course in university-style tutorials to groups of 7.
The Brilliant Tutoring Programme helps pupils who have been most impacted by Covid-19 to catch up on lost learning. This programme focuses on core curriculum subjects (English, Maths, Sciences) to help students regain confidence and is taught in groups of 4.
27th November is the Summer Term deadline.
Sign up for an information event here.
Or Apply here.
- Autism Depression Trial 2
The University of Bristol is looking for volunteers to take part in The Autism Depression Trial 2 to find out whether the talking therapy Guided Self-Help is an effective treatment for low mood/depression in adults with autism. To take part in the study participants will need to:
- be aged 18 years or over
- be experiencing symptoms of low mood/depression
- have a clinical diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
This is a randomised study; participants have a 50% chance of receiving Guided Self Help, and usual care. For further information visit www.bristol.ac.uk/adept or contact Melissa Goble melissa.goble@nhs.net
- Pint of Science
Calling all PhD and Master’s students, Academic Associates, GTA’s, post-graduate, and early career researchers. If you enjoy public engagement, have a love of science communication, and are looking for a challenge, then we need you.
The York chapter for Pint of Science UK (https://pintofscience.co.uk/) is seeking enthusiastic team members to join the York organising committee for the 2023 event. Next year we are celebrating science by hosting a plethora of exciting research talks in venues across York. Between May 22th-24th 2023, York researchers will have the opportunity to present their research as part of this global celebration of science.
This is a great opportunity to demonstrate impact, build up scholarship, engage in knowledge exchange, and contribute to outreach activities. If you would like to work collaboratively with researchers from the University of York to help organise, coordinate, and run events, then please get in contact with Dr Adam Odell (STH PGR Lead, DDaP Group Co-leader, Senior Lecturer in Biosciences, and York city Pint of Science coordinator: a.odell@yorksj.ac.uk
