Life Science Society: Academic Secretary

My aims:

• Educate students without bioscience degrees about useful life science knowledge through seminars led by undergraduates or postgraduates.
• Allow researchers at UCL and elsewhere to share insights into cutting-edge genetics research and inspire each other.
• Host more academic workshops and talks on life sciences to help students and members develop research ideas, and critical thinking skills.
• Partner with the Biochemistry Society and Genetics Society to launch a unique Cell and Molecular Biology journal, or cooperate with Science Magazine Society to create a more general journal in life sciences.
• Give students from any background a chance to ‘publish’ in our journal and receive feedback to practice their writing.

My plans:

• Host online seminars and tutorials on specific skills/knowledge and ensure smooth communication between the audience and presenters.
• Create and evaluate feedback forms for each event to suggest future events.
• Work with other life science societies in promoting and holding events.
• Meet monthly with members to reflect on previous events and plan for the next stage.
• Recruit more editors and journal club assistants to create the Molecular Biology journal.

My experience:

• Co-organised social events (e.g. 10km mini-marathon) for my high school class.
• Led volunteer groups and gave presentations/talks at the Science Museum in China.
• Attended many extracurricular in-person and online seminars over the past few years.

Hi : )

I think Life Science Society is a great opportunity for expanding our knowledge and interests in an interesting and fun way. Being exposed to up-to-date science and recent discoveries in the field is one of the initiatives. Furthermore, I believe networking and sharing own scientific perspective is another aspect that is important for every individual. I believe that additional focus should be organizing events and connecting with scientific societies from other universities. I would put my effort into fulfilling all the mentioned as well as your ideas and suggestions with a goal of improving the society. As someone who is studying Biomedical sciences, being a member of this society could be really beneficial experience. I would definitely give my best as academic secretary to make it that way.