Careers and Academic Liaison

Chair: Vicky Marriott

The objectives of the Careers and Academic Liaison Committee (CALC) are to promote careers for statisticians and programmers within the pharmaceutical industry, through school and university activities and establishing links with relevant professional groups. By working directly with schools and universities, and via our external Careers website, we provide information to individuals interested in careers as either statisticians or statistical programmers within the industry. Our activities include:

Developing and running interactive workshops for schools
Giving careers talks at universities
Attending and organising regional and national careers events
Raising awareness of general issues such as cuts to MSc funding and changes to A level mathematics and statistics curriculum
Working with other organisations such as the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)

We are always on the lookout for people to help with our initiatives, for example running a workshop in a school, giving a university careers talk or writing a profile about working in the industry. If you are interested in becoming involved in any of our activities and can spare even just a little bit of time, please get in touch with any of the committee.

If you have any careers related questions please feel free to contact us at careers@psiweb.org.

Meetings

The committee meet 4 times a year to discuss current topics and agenda items.

Composition

Name	Company	Role
Vicky Marriott	IQVIA	Chair
Amanda Darekar	Pfizer	MSc subteam
Cheryl Turkington	Amgen	Schools subteam, University prizes
Emma McEntee	PAREXEL	MSc subteam, Social media
James Lay-Flurrie	GSK	Millennium maths project, Career young statisticians events
Katharine Thorn	Eli-Lilly	Schools subteam
Kim Hacquoil	GSK	MSc Funding, Apprenticeships
Rachael Poole	Quanticate	BSc subteam, Career young statisticians events
Rhian Jacob	Roche	BSc subteam
Tomas Rouse	AstraZeneca	Website
Xinyi Zhu	GSK	MSc subteam
Abeera Mohammad	Amgen	Schools subteam
Amy Phillips-Jones	Plus-Project	BSc subteam

Committee Resources

Committee resources can be found here.

Public Resources

CALC maintains a Careers Centre website, which contains information and resources for use by schools, universities and individual students.

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Future Events

RSS Webinar - Missing Data in Clinical Trials: Making the Best of What We Haven’t Got - Dates: 08 – 08 May, 2018

Researchers in the last twenty years have come up with a snowstorm of ideas about how to interpret the results of clinical trials that have missing data. Michael O’Kelly summarises the landscape of ideas as he and his colleagues found it.

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Statistics Fundamentals of Clinical Trials for Non-Statisticians (or ‘How to speak stats in a day!’) - Dates: 10 – 10 Jul, 2018

This is a 1-day course, aimed to introduce statistics to people who work on Clinical Trials, but who are not Statisticians. No previous knowledge of Statistics is assumed as we start right at the beginning with the basics. Many practical examples are given and the emphasis is on application and understanding rather than the equations and the technical background.

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