Focus on the Lobbying/Policy Week includes a range of events aimed at Imperial students considering a career within policy or lobbying.

Are you interested in working as a policy advisor? In the Civil Service? Or being a lobbyist? Then you should make it your own policy to attend some of the events and talks being hosted as part of Focus on Lobbying/Policy Week, from 10-14 March 2014!

A schedule of the various events is as follows:

How to Get an Internship in Government/Policy

MONDAY 10 MARCH, 13:00 - 14:00
SEMINAR ROOM, CAREERS SERVICE

This workshop is targeted at first, second and third year undergraduates who are interested in finding internships in a lobbying/policy work environment.

Book a place for this workshop via JobsLive.

Skype appointments with Beth Thompson, Policy Advisor, Wellcome Trust

MONDAY 10 MARCH, 12:30 - 14:00
GREEN INTERVIEW ROOM, CAREERS SERVICE

Dr Beth Thompson is a Policy Adviser in the Strategic Planning and Policy Unit at the Wellcome Trust, where she has worked since 2009. Beth works on a range of policy issues, including the regulation and governance of clinical research; research in the NHS; and the feedback of findings to research participants. Current areas of focus include the European Data Protection and Clinical Trials Regulations. In 2010, Beth was seconded to the UK Academy of Medical Sciences as a member of the secretariat for the report A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research. 

Prior to joining the Trust she was a Science Policy Trainee at the Royal Society of Chemistry. Beth undertook a PhD and postdoctoral research at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and holds a degree in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) from the University of Cambridge. 

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Working in Policy in the Civil Service - Lunchtime Careers Talk

TUESDAY 11 MARCH, 13.00 – 13.50
G34, SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING BUILDING

This Lunchtime Careers Talk - 'The Civil Service Fast Stream - Making the Ideas of the Government Happen' - will be delivered by representatives from the Civil Service, which employs 420,000 staff in the UK across an array of different roles, assisting the government and delivering policies to deadlines. The talk will provide an insight into working in a policy-based role within the Civil Service.

Please book a place for this Lunchtime Careers Talk via JobsLive.

Skype Appointments with Jennifer Boon, Cancer Research UK

WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH, 12.30 – 14.00
GREEN INTERVIEW ROOM, CAREERS SERVICE

These 15 minute Skype appointments are a chance to ask your policy career questions to Jennifer Boon, who works as a Policy Advisor for Cancer Research UK. 

Book a place for a Skype appointment via JobsLive.

'Policy Development, Lobbying and Campaigns: the Perspective from a Membership Body' – Lunchtime Careers Talk

Thursday 13 March, 13.00 – 13.50
G34, Sir Alexander Fleming Building

This Lunchtime Careers Talk will be delivered by Alex van Besouw, Head of Group – Public Confidence in Business with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The CBI represents over 240,000 public and private sector employers, and is one of the UK’s leading independent employers’ organisations. The talk will provide an insight into policy development and lobby from a CBI perspective. 

Please book a place for this Lunchtime Careers Talk via JobsLive.

Skype appointments with Kalada Bruce, First Class Foreign Policy Lead, Policy Unit, Foreign & Commonwealth Office

THURSDAY 13 MARCH, 14:00 - 15:30
GREEN INTERVIEW ROOM, CAREERS SERVICE

Kal is in his second year of the Diplomatic Service Fast Stream, having joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in late 2012. Since graduating from the University of Birmingham in 2008 with a Bachelors in Mathematics, he has worked across the public sector, in local government, a school, the Department for Education and Cabinet Office. Kal volunteers for social mobility charities The Access Project and upReach. 

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