>>10890202>How is the competition? Here, for the most basic lab job they ask you a minimum of 2-3 letters of recommendation, eventual papers published, at least a master degree...I know some people who came over that ended up working in retail. For a lab job I know people with a certificate (I guess like half an associates degree for the US, although in some ways that's a foundation year + certificate, first year of a UK degree basically) that work in labs. Some of it is who you know, and applying to the right positions. For a PhD it's typically good to have a decent relevant masters, it's possible to do a PhD with just a bachelors though. It's not so rare to go straight to PhD that I don't know anyone personally that's done it, typically they knew people through doing projects and internships in undergrad and then got firsts (I think that's like a 3.8+GPA?)
>How much do they pay PhDs? Here they rose their stipend to 1132€ fucking hellI don't know how it is for every position, but it's historically been about the same as an alright starting salary for STEM subject, I would expect it now to be about £25k/annum. You don't pay any tax on it though so it's pretty decent. Depending on funding source you can also have the stipend reduced if you get additional funding from elsewhere, but you won't get less money altogether.
London obviously has a lot of labs, Cambridge too. University of Warwick and Birmingham are big. Then you have some stuff going on around Glasgow and Edinburgh and a few other places in Scotland. There's stuff I should be more aware of in the East of England around Nottingham and Norwich, but I don't know so many people there. If you're into neuro type stuff there's some high end stuff in Nottingham, also quite a lot of stuff in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire/Milton Keynes.
