Careers and Academic Liaison

Chair: Amanda Darekar

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

NameCompany Role
Amanda DarekarPfizerChair
Jessica KendallCTRU, University of LeedsMSc subteam, social media
Emma CrawfordParexelMSc subteam
James Lay-FlurrieGSKMillennium maths project, German CALC
Katharine ThornGSKSchools subteam
Ian RatcliffeIQVIAMSc subteam, social media
Rachael LoftusGW PharmaBSc subteam
Rhian JacobRocheBSc subteam
Shiv MakadiaAmgen (placement student)Schools subteam, social media
Xinyi ZhuGSKMSc subteam
Abeera MohammadAmgenSchools subteam
Amy Phillips-JonesGSK
BSc subteam

Committee Resources

Committee resources can be found here. 

Public Resources

CALC maintains a Careers website and a Schools/Education website, which contain information and resources for use by schools, universities and individual students.

Upcoming Events

PSI Webinar: Risk Based Monitoring & QTL's

Since the introductio of ICH-E6 R2 Addendum sponsors must introduce formal Quality Risk Management and define Quality Tolerance Limits to their clnical development programs. This webinar will cover an introduction to those concepts, recent developments and examples of how companies are defining QTL's in practice.

PSI Webinar: Innovative approaches in the development of pediatric medicines

Do you want to learn more about innovative approaches for the development of pediatric medicines? Then join this PSI webinar on December 8. We have organized an exciting webinar with very knowledgeable speakers who will share their thoughts, ideas and experiences, including case studies, on a range of issues relating to historical data, Bayesian methodology, and partial and full extrapolation approaches in the context of developing pediatric medicines.

PSI Vaccine SIG Webinar: Some considerations on developing COVID-19 Vaccines

Statistical Observations on SARS-CoV-2 & Crisis Vaccine Clinical Testing. Scott Patterson, Bo Fu, Ya Meng, Fabrice Bailleux, Josh Chen.

PSI EIWG Webinar: PIONEERing estimands in Clinical Research

Bringing estimands to life through a real case study. Members of the estimands Implementation Working Group (EIWG) will describe the background and study objectives, intercurrent events of interest and chosen estimands in the PIONEER study.

PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event

Our annual PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event, will be held online using the Career Fair Plus app on Wednesday 3rd March 2021. The event will include a live online panel discussion and a virtual exhibition session.

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