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Analytical Chemistry Summer Studentships

Application deadline 15th February 2025

The Object of the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund is to promote, assist and extend the science and study of Analytical Chemistry and of all questions relating to the analysis, nature and composition of natural and manufactured materials for the benefit of the public. The purpose of the awards is to give experience of research to undergraduates with research potential and to encourage them to consider a career in Ana

CAMS Call for PostDocs and PhDs 2025 is now open! The Call was presented last 18 September at CAMS Conference and Networking Event and is aimed at encouraging research and innovation within the field of analytical measurement science and focused on addressing CAMS MSI Grand Challenges which have been identified by CAMS Theme Chairs across CAMS priority areas. Find more information about this Call here

We are delighted to be holding CAMS 4th Annual Conference and Networking Event on 18 September 2024 at the Royal Society of Chemistry, London.

This one day conference will celebrate the great research, insights and developments of CAMS over the last 2 years. As part of this event, attendees will hear about ongoing CAMS industry and academic collaborations and CAMS fellowship projects.  

For more information click here

CAMS is pleased to announce that the 2023/24 CAMS Industry Call for Postdocs and PhDs is now open.

The Call is aimed at encouraging research and innovation within the field of analytical measurement science focused on addressing current challenges identified by industry across CAMS priority areas:

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

A series of proposals that address current industry challenges identif

ACTF has launched a brand new award to provide the opportunity for Analytical Scientists who are employed in university, industrial or public service sectors in the United Kingdom (UK) or Republic of Ireland (RoI) to visit a Host Institute in the UK/RoI to acquire new analytical science knowledge, or experience of analytical science teaching, learning or training methods, which would be applied on return to normal employment. 

Application deadline is 7th June 2024
Visit https://analyticalchemistr

The call for Summer Studentship 2024 applications is now open – with an increased level of funding and new extended submission date!
 

The British Mass Spectrometry Society (BMSS), in partnership with the Chromatographic Society (ChromSoc), are now accepting applications for their Summer Studentships scheme. The scheme funds summer research projects for students, providing them with opportunities to directly experience mass spectrometry and chromatography, going beyond what they will learn in lec

The Gordon F. Kirkbright bursary award is a prestigious annual award that assists a promising early career scientists of any nation to attend a recognised scientific meeting or visit a place of learning. The fund for this bursary was established in 1985 as a memorial to Professor Gordon Kirkbright in recognition of his contributions to analytical spectroscopy and to science in general.

Owing to the generosity of one of our former trustees, an eminent atomic spectroscopist, Professor Edward B.M.

The CAMS Executive Summary provides an overview of the work and activites that CAMS has been involved with since 2019.  

CAMS Executive Summary.pdf

On Tuesday June 13, the event ‘The State of Separation Science in the UK’ took place at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) jointly organised by the Community of Analytical Science (CAMS), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Separation Science Group, and The Chromatographic Society (ChromSoc). 

The meeting, aimed to answer one overarching question: Is Separation Science in the UK on life support?,  brought together UK and international experts in separation science to analyse the current state

We are looking forward to welcoming the separation science community to our State of the Nation meeting next week at the RSC in London hosted by CAMS, The RSC Separation Science Group and the Chromatographic Society. This meeting won’t see plenary lecturers unveiling their new research advances but instead aims to strategically connect our separation science community and stakeholders so we can together, devise an advocacy pathway for underpinning future UK separation science funding, innovati

The L.S. Theobald Award is made in memory of Leslie Stuart Theobald (1898-1979), who was Lecturer/Reader in Analytical Chemistry at Imperial College from 1925 until his retirement in 1963. A brief biography is available on the Royal Society of Chemistry web site. Nominations for the award are invited annually.

The award is made to someone who has demonstrated a significant contribution to the development or application of analytical chemistry/analytical science.
The Analytical Methods Trust (AMT)

As we near the end of 2022, its worth reflecting back on our successes as a growing community. This year, we took a look as an executive board, at the work we had done in partnership with the ACTF who have co-funded the majority of our community work to date. When we examined our impact on the Analytical Measurement Science community in our first membership period, we found we had :

• Co-funded 40 awards 14 new academic positions (8 of which are permanent); 19 Fellowships and 7 P

Disruption Grant Closing 31^st Dec22

ACTF Trustees recognise the disruption that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on analytical science students. We are relaunching a disruption grant of £500 aimed at PhD students whose studies have been adversely affected by the pandemic and need additional monetary support to complete their studies.

Note, this fund is to support personal costs to help enable students to complete their studies for example rent, or other caring or living costs, and cannot be used

Laboratory professionals and members of the analytical community will be connecting at Lab Innovations, the UK’s largest trade exhibition for the laboratory industry. The show takes place on 2^nd – 3^rd November at the NEC in Birmingham and registration is free.

CAMS member Alana Thompson from Anthias Consulting takes a look at what is going on at the show this year.

Now in its 10^th year, Lab Innovations is a bright and busy show buzzing with new product launches and demonstrations of new technolo