You may wish to visit our Partnerships page to see which organisations ACCE have worked with previously. These partners will be familiar with the ACCE DTP already.
Current opportunities
Placements for PhD students at Kew
Kew have 5 newly added placements hosted within their Learning & Participation team, increasing the breadth of public engagement and outreach-based offerings.
All placement details can be found on their website here:
Placements for PhD Students | Kew
The next application window closes on 31st January 2026, all applications must be sent to sciencetraining@kew.org
Outputs from previous PhD placement students:
- Meet Lova – a Malagasy Bryologist | Kew
- Can evolution save ash trees from dieback? | Kew
- What’s it like working with Kew’s Herbarium collection? | Kew
- The dark matter of botany | Kew
Welsh Government Placements
Please see here for details of currently available placements: Training – epwales.org.uk.
Entropix
Entropix is an enzyme development company specialising in the directed evolution of high-performance enzymes and biocatalysts. Their methodology combines state-of-the-art experimental molecular technology and machine learning computational methods.
Their mission is to use directed evolution to build on Nature in the smartest possible way. They have developed a technology platform for rapidly evolving resilient, high-performance enzymes that are formulated to match customer requirements.
Aided by recent investment, they are developing a portfolio of proteins with performance characteristics encoded to transform many aspects of medicine, manufacturing, and recycling.
They believe the directed evolution of enzymes will play a major role in delivering a truly sustainable economy: Entropix is part of this revolution.
There is scope for a placement at Entropix. Their laboratory facility is based at Sci-Tech Daresbury science and innovation campus in Cheshire.
For more information on Entropix please see https://entropix.co.uk/ or contact enquiries@entropix.co.uk to discuss a potential placement.
Sense about Science
Further details about our internships can be found here Vacancies – Sense about Science.