{"id":2348,"date":"2022-09-06T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:20:14","slug":"college-student-my-in2scienceuk-work-experience-in-the-centre-for-trials-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/centre-for-trials-research\/college-student-my-in2scienceuk-work-experience-in-the-centre-for-trials-research\/","title":{"rendered":"College Student: My In2ScienceUK Work Experience In the Centre for Trials Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hi, my name is Imogen Dagdeviren. I am a college student at Nantgarw College, studying Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics. I have just finished AS and will be moving on to A2 in the September term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I applied for a week\u2019s worth of work experience via In2ScienceUK. I submitted the application with the belief that I would pick up some useful skills from this programme, one of which being the ability to work collaboratively. I applied for the experience circa November 2021 and was accepted onto the placement April 2022. I did not know that I would be at the CTR, but I am glad that I ended up there for the week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr David Gillespie was my host organiser, and there was one other student partaking in the work experience with me. I saw this as a large attribute because it gave me an opportunity to have discussions with David as well as ask as many questions as I needed to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were given some projects to do throughout the week. These included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a Pride Cymru twitter post discussing HIV, PrEP, and in general just raising awareness for Pride<\/li>\n<li>Creating twitter posts for world sepsis day<\/li>\n<li>Creating infographics based on the DO-PrEP study, and subsequently its finding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">These projects were quite fun to carry out, it allowed me to engage in some fun yet challenging tasks, whilst working collaboratively, which is one of the things that I wanted to get from this work placement. David was very supportive throughout the entirety of this placement, answering any questions or concerns that I had about the projects, as well as any questions that I had about the CTR in general.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We also had multiple meetings with the staff and PhD students of the CTR. Particularly with the members of staff, I was given a thorough insight as to what a career at the CTR is like. I was met with the pleasant discovery that quite a lot of the staff here came from very diverse academic background, and not directly into research. This was very encouraging for me, because I was unsure of my career path. After this week placement though, I am considering doing research, largely due to the placement week. I also become aware of some of the jobs here at the CTR, which I was previously unaware of, one of those being pharmacovigilance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, this placement was a very eye-opening experience, and I am privileged to have had this opportunity to work with and speak with staff who are experts in their field. I was very pleased with the amount of inclusivity that the CTR has for queer individuals. I am a trans bisexual woman, and it was just really refreshing to know that there were people within the CTR that were supportive and understanding of my identity. I would highly recommend this to ANY student wanting work experience in the science\/research field, as well as a student who is not quite sure of their career path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hi, my name is Imogen Dagdeviren. I am a college student at Nantgarw College, studying Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics. 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