The Step-By-Step Guide to Your Chartership Application
Step 4: Which Area of Geoscience / Science?
The Fellowship of the Society cover a very ‘broad strata’ of geoscience/science straddling a wide range of industries and employments including:
- Resource Prospecting and Extraction (minerals and hydrocarbons)
- Ground Engineering
- Environment and Waste
- Contaminated Land
- Natural Hazards
- Geophysics
- Hydrogeology
- IT and Data Management
- Academic Research and Teaching
- and many others.
An essential part of the Chartership application is for you to describe the general area of geosciences/science for which you are claiming competency. This area is then assessed against the required criteria (i, ii and vii for CGeol or A and D for CSci).
Please note: You are applying to become Chartered as a Geologist or Scientist (or both) for the area in which you practice and are competent and not geoscience or science as a whole. Should you start working outside your area of competence you will need to be supervised by a competent person or gain competency in that area through additional training.
The general professional competencies are equally important and must be addressed in the application;
- criteria iii, iv, v and vi for CGeol
- iii: Communication
- iv: Health and Safety
- v: Professionalism and Professional Ethics
- vi: Maintenance of Competence through CPD
- and criteria B, C, D and E for CSci,
These will mainly be discussed and assessed in the interview.