Job Description

Reading Scientific Services Limited (RSSL) provides a range of scientific analysis, research and consultancy services to the food and pharmaceutical industries and to its parent company, Mondelēz International.

Job Description

 Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) is a cutting-edge Contract Research Organisation (CRO), providing research, analysis and consultancy to the food and pharmaceutical sectors. Whether we are creating new products, validating medicines or solving investigations, we take pride in being a leader in our field, serving clients from across 60 countries.

In 2021, we’ve been recognised as Employer of the Year and Business of the Year at the Thames Valley Business Awards, and in past

ACTF & CAMS are pleased to announce this year’s CAMS Fellowship Call is now open!

Visit https://cams-uk.co.uk/cams-fellowship-call-2022-now-open for more details.

Did you miss out on the CAMS Conference this year?

Head over to CAMS Conference 2022 - CAMS-UK to view all recordings from all our fantastic speakers. 

We are seeking someone with a passion for analytical science and chromatography to join our Analytical Research and Development team in Sandwich.  As part of diverse, multi-disciplinary teams the candidate will support project teams within our development portfolio as they seek to design the highest quality analytical methodologies, capable of operating in development and/or manufacturing environments.   

The successful applicant may lead a small team of scientists to both support the portfolio

We are seeking someone with a passion for analytical science and chromatography to join our Analytical Research and Development team (ARD) in Sandwich. 

As part of diverse, multi-disciplinary teams the candidate will support project teams within our development portfolio as they seek to design the highest quality analytical methodologies, capable of operating in development and/or manufacturing environments   

The successful applicant will contribute to developing new solutions and approaches in

Out of the lab and into the field: Rapid on-site Raman testing for food security
There is a fully funded PhD position available for a UK student with Roy Goodacre in the Centre for Metabolomics Research, University of Liverpool.

Project Description:
Major food adulteration and contamination events occur with alarming regularity and are known to be
episodic, with the question being not IF but WHEN another large-scale food safety/integrity incident will
occur. The challenges of maintaining food secu

CAMS is an industry-led initiative aimed at promoting world-class analytical measurement science training, research, and innovation by bringing together a network of industrial and academic partners with interests in these fields. Since the launch of CAMS in 2019, the network has attracted 37 members (15 industrial and 22 academic organisations) and to date has awarded/co-funded 2 analytical chairs, 7 lectureships, 6 postdocs, 5 PhDs across the UK and Ireland with its generous funding support fr

The Learning Science Teaching Innovation Awards support innovation to positively impact teaching quality and enhance student learning.

Applicants are asked to demonstrate how they have led innovation in teaching and learning in their institution. Winners will be chosen by an expert scientific educational panel.

Possible ways you may have innovated teaching and learning:

• Solving a problem by improving tools and methods

• Improving teaching materials and practices

• Developing new digital learni

https://forms.gle/UmW47zxTFNjtptWS9

CAMS has launched its second call for Lectureships, PostDocs and PhDs, inviting responses to specific industry challenges aligned to the 4x CAMS themes:

• Point of use sensors and photonics
• Complex mixtures, separations and detection
• Data analytics
• Novel instrumentation or technique

Funding will be available for Lectureships, PostDocs and PhDs, noting that all bidders are expected to have secured co-funding that at least matches CAMS’s contribution (Lectureship - £200k, PostDoc - £100k and PhD -

World demand for analytical science skills has grown at an unprecedented rate. Now more than ever, it is important for analytical chemists to have access to the latest knowledge to address the world’s challenges.

To help chemists increase their skill

The Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund (ACTF) and Community for Analytical Measurement Science (CAMS) are pleased to announce this year’s CAMS Fellowship call.

Purpose and Criteria of CAMS Fellowships

The ACTF-CAMS partnership provides funding for a range of initiatives to support the development of analytical measurement science talent. The objective of the ACTF is to promote, assist and extend the science and study of analytical chemistry, and of all questions relating to the analysis, nature and

Well, what a difference a few weeks make! I hope this finds you and yours well and coping with our flexible working revolution in parallel with home schooling, social distancing, excessive gardening and interesting hairstyles!

More than ever, the importance of community is central in everyone’s minds and this is increasingly true for the measurement sector globally. In recent weeks we have heard senior government officials comment on how testing is going to be important for a long time ahead and

UKRI invites applications for individuals from any discipline wishing to spend up to 36 months (full or part time) on secondment in the biomedical sciences sector.

• Competition opens: Friday 31 January 2020
• Competition closes: Wednesday 15 April 2020 12:00pm

More details available here

We are running 3 identical streams, which open on the same date but have different close dates:

• strand 1 (this stream) closing 15 April 2020
• strand 2 closing 13 May 2020
• strand 3 closing 1 July 2020

You must ch

With this the first blog of the year, January has passed us by already, as CAMS enters an important phase in its journey.

With the CAMS Ltd entity established in a flurry of end of year activity, it has been business as usual this month - continuing to assign the initial stakeholder contributions to build on the 3 lectureships, 10 fellowships and 3 post-doctoral positions being added through CAMS to the wider analytical family around the UK. Focus is shifting also towards the longer term sustain

Welcome to the latest CAMS newsletter; as we approach the end of 2019 we would like to thank everyone for all their support and hard work.

Whilst the idea of CAMS and the discussions for its inception have been long in the making, this year saw a num