🚀 Internship
Summer Science Intern - Conservation Policy Strategies for Plants and Fungi
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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13d ago
🚀 Summer Internship
London
🤑 £19.6K
⌛ 4d left
Apply by Jun 4
Description
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a global resource for plant and fungal knowledge. As an undergraduate or recent graduate science intern you will join a team of scientific staff, students and volunteers, contributing to the achievement of Kew’s five strategic science priorities:
- Ecosystem Stewardship
- Trait Diversity and Function
- Digital Revolution
- Accelerated Taxonomy
- Enhanced Partnerships
These priorities enable us to curate, enhance, use, explore and share Kew’s global resource, providing robust data and a strong evidence base for our UK and global stakeholders.
Area of Responsibilities
Science
Responsibilities
- Specific tasks will depend upon the project and activities of the team in which you are placed. These may include handling specimens; culturing plant or fungal materials; analytical techniques such as DNA sequencing and chemical profiling; microscopy; routine lab tasks; conservation assessments; data collection and databasing. See project details for research activities associated with particular projects.
- Complete training as required and prioritise workload and requirements appropriately.
- Help maintain a positive approach in the workplace. Give and receive feedback on your work performance with your supervisor and seek clarity to resolve and misunderstandings that may occur.
- Interact with colleagues and or visitors in a positive and professional manner. Consistently convey a professional image, maintaining suitable appearance, manner and social skills.
- Ensure compliance with all Health and Safety regulations and procedures, ensuring that equipment is used and stored in line with requirements.
- Seek to participate and disseminate your work and the work of your research team through a variety of mechanisms including peer reviewed journals, Kew Science Festival and other Kew and Wakehurst events, digital channels and publications.
Requirements
Education and Experience
Essential
- Undergraduate with at least two years’ university education or equivalent or recent graduate (within 2 years) in biosciences, bioinformatics or related subjects (for specific requirements see project description).
- A demonstrated interest in biodiversity, its sustainable use and conservation.
- Experience of practical lab-based studies or computational techniques for data evaluation.
- A working knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets and/or database software.
- Experience of collecting and analysing data.
- Experience of report writing.
Job Specific Competencies
Essential
- Be a supportive and effective team player and helpful to colleagues.
- Have effective communication skills, both written and verbal and must demonstrate a willingness to listen and learn.
- Be able to prioritise own workload and manage own time effectively.
- Ability to carry out laboratory work safely and competently if required. 5. See attached project details for project specific competencies required.