A day in the life of a Policy Officer

Tom Livermore is a Senior Policy Officer at the Academy of Medical Sciences and has been working there since early 2017. Tom studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge before specializing in Biochemistry and then undertook an MRC-funded PhD in Biochemistry at UCL. While completing his PhD, Tom completed a 3-month internship at the Association of Medical Research Charities. His first full-time policy role was at the Royal Society of Biology. Peter Wotherspoon (Training & Careers Intern, Biochemical Society) spoke to him about his work.