Sector overview
Typical job profiles
Job sites and specialist recruiters
- AstraZeneca - careers
- British Antarctic Survey - careers information and jobs board
- Catapult - Space Placements in Industry (SPIN)
- CERN - offers a range of work experience opportunities to students
- Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
- Gradcracker
- Jobs in Science
- National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - advertises vacancies, Ph.D. opportunities and has information about their various placement, apprenticeship, and work experience schemes
- Photonics Landscape - use this tool to identify UK photonics companies
- Physics World
- Space Careers
- Stellar Jobs - mostly US-based
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)
- Scottish Development International - Talent Scotland
- Technology Scotland
Health service careers
- Clinical Scientists - NHS Scotland training programme
- NHS England - Scientist Training Programme
- NHS Health Careers - Physical sciences and biomedical engineering
- NHS Scotland - careers information for healthcare science
- NHS Management Training Scheme
- Physics World - Medical physics: a broad spectrum of careers
- Physics World - working in medical physics video interview with a trainee clinical scientist
Medical writing
- FirstMedCommsJob - helpful information about careers in medical communication
- University of Strathclyde, Associate Medical Writer - training programme information sheet
- University of Strathclyde, Careers in Medical Writing - information sheet