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GSE Opportunities : Defra Deputy Director Roles ×2

Posted by: Leon Kennedy, Posted on: 10 June 2021 - Categories: GSE Opportunities

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the UK Government Department responsible for safeguarding the UK's natural environment, supporting its world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy. The broad remit of this Department …

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GSE Opportunities: 2 x SSO Scientist: REACH/Chemicals Framework and Pesticides

Posted by: Mohamed Barre, Posted on: 14 October 2020 - Categories: GSE Opportunities
Image shows two electrical grids.

This blog post is a collection of vacancies, events and learning and development opportunities for people working in Government Science and Engineering.

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International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

Posted by: Mark Jacob, Posted on: 19 May 2020 - Categories: Blog Series
Picture shows a rainbow coloured flag.

This is a blog written by Mark Jacob on what the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia means.

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GSE Opportunities: Grow from your STEM and complete the RAEng/WES engineering census.

Posted by: Ben Dages and Mohamed Barre, Posted on: 15 October 2019 - Categories: GSE Opportunities
An engineer describing her role to young pupils.

This blog post is a collection of vacancies, events and learning and development opportunities for people working in Government Science and Engineering.

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GSE opportunities: Cross-Government vacancies in BEIS and DEFRA

Posted by: Ben Dages, Posted on: 15 February 2019 - Categories: GSE Opportunities

This blog post is a collection of vacancies, events and learning and development opportunities for people working in Government Science and Engineering.

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Meet GSE’s new Head of Geography

Posted by: David Wood, Posted on: 27 February 2018 - Categories: Our People & Deep Dives, Specialism Deep Dives

David Wood (@GovHeadGeog), the new pan-government Head of Geography, talks geography, government and GSE.

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GSE Opportunities: Civil Service Live 2018, British Science Week & 100 years of suffrage

Posted by: Tom Barratt, Posted on: 19 February 2018 - Categories: GSE Opportunities

This blog post is a collection of vacancies, events and learning and development opportunities for people working in Government Science and Engineering.

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A STAR placement in Defra

Posted by: Emily Dowdeswell, Posted on: 12 January 2018 - Categories: Capability & Skills, Guest Blog, Latest Stories, Specialism Deep Dives
Poster exhibition at Defra conference

Emily Dowdeswell, a soil science PhD student at Cranfield University shares her experiences of a busy 3 month placement in the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office in Defra.

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