{"id":11639,"date":"2020-11-11T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/?p=11639"},"modified":"2021-06-23T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:50:49","slug":"beth-clarke-hm-government-open-innovation-team-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/2020\/beth-clarke-hm-government-open-innovation-team-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Clarke – HM Government Open Innovation Team placement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Details of student and placement<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name: Beth Clark<\/a><\/p>\n

Institution: Bangor University<\/p>\n

Placement Host: HM Government Open Innovation Team<\/p>\n

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I applied to do a placement with the Open Innovation Team at the end of 2019, in my third year of a part time PhD in Ocean Science. I was keen to get a taste of the culture and experience of working in the civil service, and in particular to discover a different style of research to what I was used to in academia.<\/p>\n

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My placement was originally planned to be an in-person placement over the summer of 2020, based in the Cabinet Office. However due the pandemic of course, my placement took place virtually.<\/p>\n

Every member of the Open Innovation Team made me feel instantly incredibly welcome and I found that starting something totally new online was a novel but incredibly useful experience.<\/p>\n

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My placement was more than I could have imagined. I was amazed at the wide variety of interesting projects that I was given the opportunity to work on during my three-month placement. I felt like the team gave me the chance to be meaningfully involved in projects and supported me throughout the placement in developing skills to support my career post-PhD.<\/p>\n

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The experience of seeing how research is used by policy makers, will shape how I structure the research outputs from my PhD. Having to quickly adapt to a totally new way of working in a variety of topics I had no experience in, taught me so much about myself and what I want from my career and I think the experience of working with the OIT will be invaluable in applying for jobs once I graduate.<\/p>\n

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I would whole heartedly recommend a placement with the Open Innovation Team to any PhD students interested in a career in the civil service, or even just seeing what is involved in seeing a different side to research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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