Careers
information
The following web pages and other publications will help students to
be aware of the employment destinations of their predecessors and the
nature of the work within the various sectors. All have specific sections
devoted to bioscience careers which may include destination data, descriptions
of work and career progression profiles. Where appropriate the links are
discipline related but it should be noted that most careers are accessible
to many disciplines, often via an appropriate postgraduate conversion
course.
Campus careers services will usually have copies of the careers booklets
mentioned and may have further information in their libraries. Guidance
on career decision making will be available.
Below are links to webpages and publications for a variety of Bioscience
disciplines. (The categorisation is on the subject basis of the profession.
Sites may well contain profiles of graduates from other disciplines who
are now working in the profession.)
Options with your subject
The Prospects website gives an overview of: Your skills; Job options; Career areas; Further study and Contacts and resources for different degrees. Just browse for your degree.
See also Do you know who employs your graduates?
for a list of links to career destination surveys.
Bioscience – general
(of interest to graduates of all or most bioscience disciplines)
Prospects website
There are two useful sections: Industry Insights and Job Sectors. Industry Insights cverviews of graduate opportunities in a range of industriess including: 'Environment and Agriculture' which covers agricultural,
animal related, horticultural and rural management careers; 'Health' and 'Science. Within the Job Sectors section there comprehensive career guide to jobs in the paricular industry, with articles, news and features, as well as information on recruitment, postgraduate courses and practical information on finding a job in the chosen area. There's also an online in our forum
BioMedNet
On-line news magazine, "HMS Beagle", containing articles on
careers and career profiles of leading scientists.
Download the interviews with scientists or careers articles (both pdf format).
Bioscience YES (Young Entrepreneurs
Scheme - Yorkshire and Humber) is an innovative competition developed
to raise awareness of the commercialisation of bioscience ideas among
postgraduate students/postdoctoral scientists working at Universities
in the Yorkshire and Humberside region.
TARGETjobs
Claims to provide "Everything you need to know about graduate jobs with science employers and technology companies. Whether you want to know whether postgraduate study will improve your graduate science job options, or what science work you can do with your degree, you can find careers advice here."
FindAPhD.com
Advice and information about PhD research and how to get funding.
Forensic Science Society
Description of the work within the forensic science field and links to
potential employers.
The Centre for Bioscience
First destination information with examples
of specific jobs and courses, culled from HESA and other data donated
by individual universities. The Centre for Bioscience subjects covered
are agriculture, anatomy and physiology, biochemistry, food science and
technology, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology and zoology.
Th article Graduates in Industry – High Performance Teamwork
describes the roles of bioscientists in understanding disease and discovering
and developing new medicines, and the technical and personal skills required.
Nature
Careers articles are published in Nature magazine (e.g. Oceanography) and the website also contains a toolkit section which provides readers with a bank of informative resources and relevant articles to assist them with the essential tasks that contribute to a successful science career.
NewScientistJobs
Careers articles are published in the the New Scientist magazine as well as an extensive vacancy list. There's also a section on careers advice.
The Intellectual Property Office
A description of the work of a patent examiner is included in the booklet, Careers at Intellectual Property Office: Scientists, Engineers & Mathematicians, which can be downloaded from
this web site.
The Royal Society
Profiles of eminent scientists in their 'Meet the Scientist' section.
Science
Descriptions of areas of work, career profiles and copious links across
a wide-ranging careers spectrum including bioinformatics, cosmetic science,
forensic science, medical writing, zoos and museums, regulatory affairs
and many careers away from science but entered by bioscientists.
Scientists for Global Responsibility
Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) has produced several documents
that may be of interest to undergraduates when considering their future
career options. The introductory booklet An Ethical Career in Science
and Technology introduces scientists to some of
the ethical issues they may find themselves confronted with in their work.
Other briefings such as Career choice, ethics and animal experimentation and Career choice and climate change focus
on specific issues and 12 inspiring cases of ethical careers in science and technology gives an idea of the possible career routes.
Society for Underwater Technology
Includes information about opportunities for biologists and zoologists
in marine science and technology.
Women in Science Engineering
and technology
Database of women experts in technical fields, searchable by area of work.
Each entry resembles an extended CV with details of employment history,
areas of expertise, publications and contact details.
Agriculture and horticulture
Prospects: Agriculture
"Your Degree in Agriculture ... Options with your subject" covers all jobs and
employer sectors, with descriptions, available to agriculture graduates.
Institute of Biology (Go to: Education
and training and A career in biology) Descriptions of areas of work within
the “Agriculture” area of employment.
Lantra, Careers in Land
Based Industries
Short accounts of the nature of work and case-studies for a wide range
of occupations across the agricultural crops and livestock, landscaping,
animal and fish care management, horticulture, tree/timber production
and related areas.
Biochemistry
Prospects: Biochemistry
"Your Degree in Biochemistry ... Options with your subject" covers all jobs
and employer sectors, with descriptions, available to biochemistry graduates
Biochemical Society
Produces Next steps: options after a bioscience degree
British Neuroscience Association
Has a
Careers in Neuroscience section
Types of work for Biochemists, a summary of the career opportunities available to biochemistry graduates.
Biology
(of interest to graduates of all or most of the biological sciences)
Prospects: Biology
"Your Degree in Biology ... Options with your subject" covers all jobs and employer
sectors, with descriptions, available to biology graduates
Brewlab
Information about different types of work in brewing and entry routes,
and employment sectors.
British Society for Plant Pathology
Outline information about "A Career in Plant Pathology" plus
a series of a "Week in the life of ..." scientists in this field.
Chartered Institute of Environmental
Health
Information about the work of an environmental health officer and routes
into it.
Society for Experimental Biology
Career profiles of new and experienced graduates, and information about
work experience and careers planning.
Ecology
British Ecological Society
The booklet Rooting for a Career in Ecology or Environmental Management is
downloadable from this web site and includes a number of career profiles
of people who work in the ecology field.
Food Science
Prospects: Food Science
"Your Degree in Food Science ... Options with your subject" covers all jobs
and employer sectors, with descriptions, available to food science graduates.
British Nutrition Foundation
A Careers page describes work in
the nutrition and dietetics fields with links to postgraduate course providers.
Institute of Food Science and
Technology
Including a Careers Spotlight and Why be a Food Scientist?
Forestry
Arboricultural Association
A Careers in Arboriculture boklet gives details of the types
of work within arboriculture with advice and information about entry and
qualifications.
Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales
and Northern Ireland
Describes the types of work within the forestry and arboriculture professions
and entry points and qualifications.
Genetics
Prospects: Genetics
"Your Degree in Genetics ... Options with your subject" covers all jobs and
employer sectors, with descriptions, available to genetics graduates.
Genetics Society
Brief accounts of work areas for geneticists and who employs them and how to become one.
Immunology
British Society for
Immunology
Career case studies for people working in the immunology field. The booklet
'Immunology - a Career for the Future', which includes employment sectors
and the descriptions of work within them, and career case studies can
be obtained via this web site.
Medical and clinical sciences
(of interest to graduates in medical and biomedical science, biochemistry,
genetics, microbiology and related bioscience subjects)
Prospects: Biomedical Sciences
"Your Degree in Biomedical Sciences ... Options with your subject" covers all
jobs and employer sectors, with descriptions, available to biomedical
sciences graduates.
Institute of Biomedical Science
Fairly
basic information centred around IBMS training courses.
NHS Careers (Go to: Healthcare
science)
Information about and routes into lifesciences/pathology laboratory based,
and clinical physiology careers.
Royal College of Pathologists
Descriptions of work within the main branches of pathology: chemical pathology
(clinical biochemistry); haematology; histopathology; immunology; and
medical microbiology. Booklets about the branches of pathology are available: A Career in Pathology and Pathology:
the Hidden Science that Saves Lives.
Microbiology
Prospects: Microbiology
"Your Degree in Microbiology ... Options with your subject" covers all jobs
and employer sectors, with descriptions, available to microbiology graduates.
Society for General
Microbiology
iInformation on training and opportunities for microbiologists at all stages of their careers, also includes Job Profiles
Pharmacology
Prospects: Pharmacology
"Your Degree in Pharmacology ... Options with your subject" covers all jobs
and employer sectors, with descriptions, available to pharmacology graduates.
Association of the British
Pharmaceutical Industry
Areas of work associated with the development of a new drug including
technical, science communication and commercial occupations, and many graduate career
profiles.
British Pharmacological Society
Areas of employment available to pharmacologists and Next Step careers guidance
Nature
Reviews (1, (10), 833 (2002))
A review entitled "Employment of and Employability in Pharmacology"
describes the work areas entered by graduate pharmacologists and discusses
future prospects, the skills employers need and how the employability
of graduates can be enhanced.
Physiology
(also of interest to anatomy graduates)
Prospects: Physiology
"Your Degree in Physiology ... Options with your subject" covers all jobs and
employer sectors, with descriptions, available to physiology graduates.
Toxicology
(of interest to most other bioscience disciplines via an MSc in toxicology)
British Toxicology Society
Descriptions of work in different branches of toxicology are included.
Zoology
Prospects: Zoology
"Your Degree in Zoology ... Options with your subject covers all jobs and employer
sectors, with descriptions, available to zoology graduates.
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