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
Emma CrawfordMSDMSc subteam, Communications Liaison
James Lay-FlurrieBayerBSc subteam, German CALC Liaison
Katharine ThornGSKSchools subteam
Ian RatcliffeVeramedBSc subteam
Rhian JacobRocheBSc subteam
Tomas RouseAstraZenecaWebpage Manager
Xinyi ZhuGSKMSc subteam
Abeera MohammadAmgenSchools subteam
Michael SeathAmgen (placement student)
Schools subteam
Alicia AylottGSKTBD

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 Book Club

PSI are starting a book club! We will be reading/discussing non-technical books relevant to our roles. Participants will be split into smaller groups to network with each other and practice exercises.

PSI VisSIG Wonderful Wednesday Webinar Series

This is a good opportunity to develop your knowledge by thinking through a practical example, practicing how to apply graphics principles, and developing your coding skills.

PSI Webinar: Tipping Point Analyses - Introduction & Case Studies

What is a tipping point analysis, and how is one performed? What are the different approaches for continuous, binary and time to event data? Our speakers will present and discuss some practical examples.

PSI Careers - MEDMathS: Medicine Empowered by Data, Maths and Statistics

In just 1 hour, learn about the field of medical statistics and how it plays a crucial role in developing ground-breaking new medicines, vaccines and healthcare products.

PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event

Our annual PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event, will be held online on Wednesday 2nd March 2022. The event will include a live online panel discussion and a virtual exhibition session.

PSI Training Course: Simulation of Clinical Trials using Tidyverse

In this course, we introduce a framework for clinical trial simulations that makes extensive use of the tidyverse collection of R packages.

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