Analytical Research Forum 2023 (ARF23)

Careers Panel Discussion – Thursday 08 June, 11:25-12:15

Robert Bowles, Career and Professional Development Adviser at the Royal Society of Chemistry will be chairing the Careers panel as part of this year’s Analytical Research Forum activities. In this interactive and informal session our panelists will share their career stories and answer your questions which could include how to get the most out of connections, what they’ve learnt or would have done differently at the start of their career, how to develop career resilience and share tools and advice for managing uncertainty and making career choices.

Career Panelists

Robert Bowles Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

After an early research career in marine biotechnology, Robert moved out of the lab, gaining five years’ experience in sales and marketing of educational software to schools. He joined the Royal Society of Chemistry sixteen years ago, and has managed a program of their successful education and careers projects. He recently provided careers input into the new RSC Pathfinder CPD planning and recording tool for members launching in Jan 2023 . https://pathfinder.rsc.org. As a qualified careers adviser, he currently works in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Career Management team; offering careers advice to our membership and the wider chemistry community. www.rsc.org/careers

May Copsey Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

May Copsey is currently the Executive Editor for Royal Society of Chemistry’s flagship journal, Chemical Science. She joined the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2006 as an Assistant Editor and has worked on a variety of different journals during this time, including Dalton Transactions, CrystEngComm and Journal of Materials Chemistry. She was Executive Editor for the Analytical portfolio of journals for four years, before moving to take over the General Chemistry portfolio, including Chemical Science, ChemComm and Chemical Society Reviews in 2015. She has had the pleasure of leading an editorial team dedicated to Chemical Science since June of 2018. May is a main group chemist by training, as before joining the RSC she worked for three years as Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Calgary, after completing a PhD in main group chemistry at the University of Bristol.

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