Industrial placements
The Wessex One Health (WOH) DLA includes both professional internships for PhD students (PIPs) and CASE studentships. Industrial placements can offer many advantages to your PhD journey including real-world applications and broader skill sets.
We have placements are directly related to your PhD (CASE) or that are not (PIPS). Interested? More details and the range of current exciting opportunities are below. These also include our collaborative partner National Physics Laboratory (NPL) a pioneering centre of innovation in engineering biology, biophysical measurement, quantification of intracellular and extracellular processes and cutting-edge imaging technologies.
Professional internships (PIPs)
For the 3rd year placement, Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Programme students will have access to an exciting array of placements across a diverse range of sectors. These will be 3 months or over, can be a single period or throughout and will expose students to a variety of employment sectors outside the research environment, e.g. policy, regulatory, media, marketing, industry, public engagement. The aim is to learn new, transferable skills that will help you on your individual career journey.
For insight from previous BBSRC PIP students, see the Evaluation of Professional Internships for PhD students programme report (PDF)
Placement providers
Placement providers are updated constantly. A selection of those currently in place include:
- Cambridge consultants - deep tech powerhouse
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Agricultural Science (CEFAS)
- Hygenia - who develop hygiene and food safety diagnostics
- Illumina - DNA sequencing biotechnology company
- LGC standards - global leaders in producing and testing reference materials
- LifeArc - key translators of scientific health advances
- Marwell Zoo - a 140 acre zoo in Winchester
- Naturemetrics - experts in nature monitoring
- National Physical Laboratory - impact from science - NPL
- VIDIIA - who offer innovative diagnostics solutions.
- Yokogawa - world leader in test, measurement and industrial automation
- Zoetis - global animal health.
CASE
There are also a variety of CASE (formerly known as collaborative awards in science and engineering studentships) studentships available, which enable students to experience enhanced training opportunities directly related to their project. These 3 month or over partnerships allow students to work with non-academic organisations such as technology, charities, hospitals.
This portfolio is continuously added to. Those currently available include:
- Cambridge consultants
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Agricultural Science (CEFAS)
- Certera - model-informed drug development solutions and software
- LGC standards - global leaders in producing and testing reference materials
- National Physical Laboratory - impact from science - NPL
- VIDIIA - who offer innovative diagnostics solutions.
Industrial Placements Lead
Dr Suzie Hingley-Wilson
Lecturer in Bacteriology