One Nucleus August 2021 People Pathways by One Nucleus

August 2021

People Pathways Welcome to the August edition of the One Nucleus People Pathways newsletter. I hope you are enjoying your summer so far. We have some exciting events on the horizon, including the upcoming BioWednesday webinar (featured on page 3) on the topic of work-placements and work-based learning. In a recent poll to our network we asked “What do you feel is the biggest barrier to increasing work-based learning opportunities in Life Sciences?”. Early votes are suggesting that ‘supervision capacity at the employer’ is the main barrier. Voting is still open and you can have your say here. We are here to help you recruit and grow great teams! As a One Nucleus member you can post vacancies on our website and we will feature them inside this newsletter. We are interested in learning about the trends of recruitment and more specifically the trends in staff turnover and the cause. Over the last 12 months have you noticed an increase in staff turnover? Vote now and stay tuned for findings in next month’s People Pathways newsletter. What’s inside this months issue? Page 1 | Upcoming Training Courses Page 2 | Events, Member Appointments & Peer Networks Page 3 | BioWednesday Webinar: Is the Workplace the Best Place to Train our Future Workforce? Page 4 | Career Opportunities Page 5 | University of East Anglia - site visits To get involved or have a chance to be featured in the next newsletter please contact training@onenucleus.com and for hot off the press updates, follow our @OneNucleus Twitter and LinkedIn accounts!

Upcoming One Nucleus Training Courses Gold Members receive a 30% discount and Silver Members receive a 15% discount off all One Nucleus training courses! Online Introduction to Drug Development: From Candidate Selection to Patients in Healthcare | 8 - 9 September 2021, Register This course is perfect for those who want to understand what is done to bring new treatments to patients, and/or better operate with the language of internal customers. Typically people in non life-science technical roles in our sector – IT, Finance, HR and Admin staff. Also helpful for early research professionals who wish to broaden their knowledge of later stage development.

Online Biological Safety: Management and Practice (IOSH Approved) | 22 - 23 September 2021, Waiting List

This course is predominantly aimed at those fairly new to the role and mostly focuses on work at ACDP containment levels 1 and 2 and work with GMOs. However, experienced BSO will also benefit from the course. The aim of the course is to improve your knowledge of Biosafety and consequently develop the competency and confidence to perform your role as a Biological Safety Officer more effectively.

Online Laboratory Health and Safety | 29 September 2021, Register This one-day intensive course is all about health and safety in the laboratory setting. Using lots of practical examples and scenarios from different laboratories, participants will learn about health and safety legislation and the principles of safe working as it applies to them.

Presentation Skills for Scientists | 13 October 2021, Save the Date The one day course, unlike many presentation skills courses, is designed specifically for the practising scientist. We cover all aspects of verbal scientific communication, asking delegates to present their own research in a conference format prompting feedback on style and content. Perfect for a junior research scientist (all disciplines) from academia and industry, particularly those starting to present their work at conferences and seminars. It is also useful for scientists who want to present technical material to companies or investors.

To view all other One Nucleus training courses please visit our website and for more information please email training@oneucleus.com

One Nucleus Events 1 September | BioWednesday Webinar: Is the Workplace the Best to train our Future Workforce - register 6 September | PROTAC and Peptide Modalities: A Differentiated Approach to Clinical Candidates - register 7 September | Lunch and Learn: DPO & DPR: Something Old, Something New and Something Blue… - register 14 September | VIC Workshop - Growing Lab Capacity - register 21 September | HR SIG: Employee Data, Monitoring and Privacy - register 27 September | Incentivising Innovation: The SME R&D Tax Credit Scheme - register 28 September | Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace - an LGBTQ+ Perspective register 6 October | BioWednesday Webinar - register 7 October | Life Science Marketing Group – Making Conferences Work for Your Business register 20 October | Employer of Choice Webinar with OnSong - register 6 December | Genesis Digital 2021: from 6 December - register 9 December | Genesis London 2021 - register

Member Appointments Epidarex Capital has appointed Anthony Voveris as Director of Finance. BenevolentAI has appointed Dr François Nader as Chairman. Taylor Wessing welcome two new partners, Adam Griffiths and Deidre MacCarthy, to open Taylor Wessing Ireland with the support of UK partners James Goold and Alison Dennis. Metrion Biosciences appoints Nick Foster as Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Global Business Development.

Peer Networks Are you an SME leader wanting to grow and develop your organisation? Peer Networks is a national peer-to-peer networking programme managed locally by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Growth Hub. Some of the key benefits from Peer Networks is that they will support you to find solutions to challenges your business is facing by pairing you with other local business leaders facing a similar challenge. There is also no cost to join the programme, it just needs a few hours of your time each month which can be virtually in the comfort of your own home! For more information about the programme and how to join, visit the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Growth Hub website.

BioWednesday Webinar: Is the Workplace the Best Place to Train our Future Workforce? 16:00 - 17:00 Wednesday, 1 September 2021 Work-based learning opportunities offer many benefits to students and employers. For students, these opportunities offer practical experience, network building and career development. For employers, it is an opportunity to upskill your workforce with skills relevant to your business. The Life Sciences Industrial Strategy aims to ensure we have the best talent, skills and people to support the needs of the sector. As the sector continues to thrive and experiences convergence with new technologies, work-based learning programmes can help to meet the demands for new skills and experienced workers. Our panel will discuss how employers can offer work-based learning covering internships, placements and apprenticeships. For other relevant content, check out our Opportunities in Clinical Research and Conversations in Careers - The Wellcome Sanger Bioinformatics Apprentices sessions from the One Nucleus Building Life Science Adventures Conference 2021. Panel Paul Branthwaite, Senior Partner, tranScrip (moderator) Melanie James, Partner, Employment and HR Law, Mills & Reeve Jacqui Hall, Head of Early Careers, Biopharma R&D, AstraZeneca & Chair, SIP Cambridge Renos Savva, Senior Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London

The University of East Anglia is looking to develop strong relationships with organisations that can support a site visit for it’s BSc Pharmacology students. By designing something bespoke in connection with their course modules we want to highlight what options are available after Graduation. This provides an invaluable experience for these students and you in turn then have access to an excellent, well prepped student resource. The aim with this programme is to provide a ½ day site visit for students who want to work in the industry, rather than be Pharmacists. Surrounding Research & Development, this would ideally involve a tour, a presentation, Q&A’s, careers pathway seminar etc. To take place around Oct/Nov (1st semester) or Feb/March (2nd semester) but we can be flexible to work around commitments. The numbers of attendees will vary depending on which year group would be best suited and this would be confirmed through further discussion with you. Understandably there may not be scope for each year group to visit at once so this could be broken down into smaller groups. Ideally we would be looking to create a physical visit but if this is not possible we could explore a virtual offering. This option was trialled this year to great success alongside AstraZeneca & Quadram Institute. We designed a very engaging and informative virtual visit which was very well received with excellent comments from students and staff alike. We look forward to hearing from you, For more information please contact, Paul Chandler – p.chandler@uea.ac.uk