As a multi-national organisation we have prioritised our work to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees so that we can continue to provide support to our 50,000 members and to our global community.
We are well prepared as an organisation and our teams are working incredibly hard to keep the RSC operating during such uncertain times. I very much value the support of our members, our partners and our community in the work that we do.
One way you can support the community is to make people aware of the Chemists’ Community Fund and the help it can provide during these challenging and uncertain times.
On behalf of our Trustees and our Leadership Team, I would like to ask all of our community to stay safe and work with us to continue advancing the chemical sciences.
Helen Pain
Royal Society of Chemistry Acting CEO
Ensuring business continuity
We have established and tested business continuity plans in place which we are continuing to refine in response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Our crisis management team is led by our Deputy Chief Executive, Paul Lewis and supported by senior leaders from across the organisation, all with a strong understanding of the needs of their employees, customers and stakeholders.
We successfully introduced measures to ensure that we could continue to deliver services remotely in our key China market during the initial outbreak, and are applying these learnings as well as those gained from a full scale business continuity exercise held in early March to our UK operations as well as our other international locations.
The Crisis Management Team meets daily in order to respond to the needs of our community and staff. We will continue to review our plans in line with the latest advice regarding Covid-19 to ensure that the RSC can perform its normal activities as far as possible.
Details of UK office closures
Details of our office closures can be found here.
Event cancellation
We are now cancelling or postponing all events that were planned between now and the end of June 2020, and we ask that any Member Networks running events on our behalf take the same approach.
This is to ensure that we are supporting our community to follow advice of social distancing measures. Whilst the landscape and Public Health information is changing rapidly, we wish to give certainty to both organisers and delegates and we do not wish to exclude those in our community who may need to self-isolate over this period.
If you have any concerns or need any support on this decision, then please do not hesitate to contact the networks team.
Network Team
- Tel:
- +44 (0) 1223 432269
- Email:
- Send us an email
Membership
The membership team are transitioning to working from home so there may be a slight delay in responding to you over the next few days, but you are still able to contact them through the usual channels. See contact block below for ways to get in touch with our membership team.
Membership
- Tel:
- +44 (0) 1223 432141
- Email:
- Send us an email
Supporting teachers
Teachers of chemistry can find free teaching resources, support and guidance on our education website. To help those who suddenly need to teach remotely, we are developing a series of resource packs and online Q&A sessions facilitated by our education coordinators.
A great introduction is our article 10 ways to teach and learn while school’s closed. For more updates on how we can support your teaching, register for a free account.
Chemistry World
RSC Members may experience a delay in receiving their printed copies of the April issue of Chemistry World. We will provide updates on the delivery of future printed copies of Chemistry World as soon as we can.
We would like to remind members that they receive unlimited access to the Chemistry World website as a benefit of their membership. Choose the ‘I am a member’ option if you are prompted to sign in and enter you usual member number and password to gain access. Or you can log in here: https://mem.chemistryworld.com/
There is a dedicated members’ area on the Chemistry World website at www.chemistryworld.com/members where you can find specific resources and exclusive content for members and fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry. This now includes access to digital issues of Chemistry World.
Access for everyone
All stories related to the coronavirus pandemic are free to access on the Chemistry World website and can be found here: https://www.chemistryworld.com/coronavirus/100140.tag.
Publishing and access to knowledge
Now more than ever, it is crucial for chemical scientists everywhere to have access to the latest knowledge and resources in order to address the world’s challenges, and we can offer this no matter where you are based.
Our journal, database and book publishing teams have transitioned to remote working and continue to work effectively and authors should not experience any delays to service. If you are planning to submit a paper or book manuscript to us, please do so in the usual way.
Access to our journals, books, databases and literature updating services remains unaffected for those of you who rely on them for vital research, or who manage access to our publishing portfolio on behalf of an institution or company.
If you are experiencing any difficulty accessing information, please let our customer service teams know straight away and we will work with you to get things working smoothly again.
Free-to-access Coronavirus article collection
All Royal Society of Chemistry-published research papers related to Covid-19 are available to read now as part of this free-to-access collection.
There is also a growing list of freely available research on STM’s dedicated page.
Industry
All our staff will be working from home and will continue to be contactable via the usual means. A reminder of ways to get in touch with us are below.
industry@rsc.org or if you are an SME part of EnterprisePlus contact us on enterpriseplus@rsc.org
Industry support
- Email:
- Send us an Email
Divisions
Our staff are working with our Division Councils and wider community to ensure continuity of our Division awards, events and grants.
We will provide more information on our plans as soon as we can. See contact block below to get in touch regarding our Divisions.
Divisions
- Email:
- send us an email
Other enquiries
Our mailboxes are monitored Monday to Friday between 8.00 am and 5.00 pm.
As COVID-19 and isolation measures require different ways of working, we will be assessing any changes we need to make to our programmes and activities to continue to provide the support you need.
We will get in touch very soon with updates. In the meantime, do not hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have.