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There are a range of team positions in SaintScience. If you are interested in joining the journal and would like to learn more about what is involved in contributing, please take a look at our available roles below!
Writer
As a journal, we need writers more than anything! SaintScience needs writers who are able to:
- Have a passion or love of writing and explaining scientific concepts at various levels of details
- Be willing to make regular submissions to the journal in subjects of interest and contemporary scientific news in their field
- Ability to work as a team with other members of the editorial board to produce entertaining and scientifically rigorous content for the community
- No prior experience in scientific writing needed
Experience in writing is not needed as one of SaintScience’s aim is to develop the scientific writing capabilities of University of St Andrews students.
Editor
When all the writing is done, it is important to make sure the contents are free of grammatical mistakes and logical fallacies. We need editors who:
Editing experience is not needed for this role. There will be training provided by senior student members of SaintScience.
Peer Reviewer
For every piece of scientific writing, the quality of the content must be checked and cross-referenced with existing literature. Peer reviewers adopt this role by independently analysing submitted articles and liaising with authors.
Applicants are not expected to have reviewing experience. Training will be provided by senior student members of SaintScience.
Social Media Officer
Similar to every organisation in the digital era, SaintScience needs social media presence to interact with the public. Experience in managing social media platforms for an organization are most desirable. We need someone with the abilities and skills to: