Ben Webster Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Roles and responsibilities have included:Management, review and improvement of the central programme of live training and development opportunities offered to all Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) at King’s.Liaising with internal and external facilitators.Leading the delivery of the King’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.Managing the HSDTC PGR Buddy Scheme for new starters within the Health Sciences including delivering associated training.Collaborating and linking up with other departments to develop new, and to communicate existing opportunities available to PGRs across other central departments across King’s.Supervising and supporting King’s Royal Literary Writing Fellows.Preparation of on-demand learning materials (content for VLEs, video and text content).Skills Learnt and Developed:Project Management and Delivery, Data Analysis, Visual and Oral Communication, Negotiation, Team and Independent Working, Budget Management, Collaboration, Event and Training Facilitation.

Roles and responsibilities have included:Supporting the marketing and recruitment for PhD vacancies in collaboration with NPL.Management of the PGI's Mentoring Programme. Organising and delivering training activities to PhD students and supervisors.Involved in linking individuals in academia, NPL and industry to form new collaborative working partnershipsInvolved in organising a wide variety of written content which is published through various communication channels (newsletters, website, social media). Taken ownership of the graphic design of the content.Supporting the Student Ambassador community within the PGI. In particular, supporting the cohort experience and welfare activities. Skills learnt and developed:Project management, collaboration internally and externally, writing for different audiences, delivery and organisation of events, using and managing social media accounts, marketing of job opportunities

London, United Kingdom

Investigating the production of medically interesting terbium isotopes and the subsequent preparative chemical separation using chromatographic techniques. Co-sponsored by the University of Surrey and the National Physical Laboratory, UK.Collaboration - Worked with institutes from across Europe through the CERN-MEDICIS collaborationsProject Management - delivery of a 4 year project at NPL with clear impact and outputsAcademic Writing - Preparation of reports, publishing in peer-reviewed journals and in trade journalsCommunication of research - attended several UK and international conferences and presented my research via oral and poster presentations.Laboratory skills - experiment planning, documentation of processes, methods and results. Developed expertise in preparative chromatography and ICP-MS analysis with a particular focus on the lanthanide elements.Volunteering as a PGI Student Ambassador at NPL- Influenced and encouraged positive change in how the PGI operates and how it supports and encourages development in it's 200+ student cohort .- prepared content, edited and designed a quarterly newsletter and two 'A Year in the PGI' Review documents- Established and managed the PGI's Mentoring Programme

United Kingdom

Represented the Chemistry Department by presenting my personal experience of Industrial placement year to prospective students and their parents. Assisted in touring parents around the departmental facilities answering queries they had about the course and university.

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12-month year industrial work experience in a research laboratory.Roles included:- Routine analytical analysis of in-vitro samples- Organisation and completion of a related research project which required extensive literature review.- Balanced routine, project and university work, maintaining a consistently high standard. Multi-tasked effectively- Training new members of staff in methods and instrumentation that were used routinely.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science, Chemistry, 1St Class

Activities and Societies: Squash, Christian Union Graduated with a high First Class degree Final Year Project - Synthetic Organic.

A-Level Qualifications

Mathematics - A* Chemistry - A Physics - B