A to Z of specialisms

The specialist areas in which our members work are extremely diverse, as illustrated by the following A-Z. It is by no means comprehensive but gives some idea of the breadth of our membership:

Actuaries, administrators, agricultural officers, agronomists, air accident investigators, air traffic controllers, algologists, alternative energy specialists, animal health officers, arboriculturalists, archaeologists, architects, architectural surveyors/investigators, auditors

Bacteriologists, biochemists, biologists, biotechnologists, botanists, building surveyors

Cartographers, catering managers, chemists, civil engineers, clothing technologists, computer scientists, conservation architects, conservation officers, construction engineers, craftspeople, curators

Deer liaison officers, dentists, design engineers, doctors, draughtspersons

Ecologists, economists, electrical engineers, energy advisers and consultants, entomologists, environmental scientists, estate surveyors

Farm managers, fingerprint officers, fire officers, fishery officers, food safety researchers, forensic scientists, foresters

Gas examiners, geneticists, geochemists, geologists, geophysicists, glaciologists, graphic designers

Health and safety inspectors, horticulturalists, hydrologists

Identification officers, illustrators, industrial chemists, information officers, information technologists, insolvency examiners, instrument designers

Journalists

Landscape architects, lecturers, legal officers, librarians, lithographers

Magistrates clerks, marine biologists, marine engineers, marine geologists, marine surveyors, medical officers, meteorologists, Metropolitan Police civil staff, microbiologists, mineralogists, museum curators, mycologists

Nuclear inspectors, nuclear physicists, nuclear power station advisers, nurses

Occupational health officers, operational researchers

Palaeontologists, parliamentary reporters, patent officers, pharmacists, photographers, planners, planning engineers, planning inspectors, power industry troubleshooters, power station engineers and managers, press officers, prison chaplains, project managers, protozologists, psychologists, public health engineers

Quantity surveyors

Railway inspectors, research officers, restorers, radio technicians, road engineers

Safety engineers, scenes of crime officers, scientists, ship designers, social scientists, social survey interviewers, social work services inspectors, software engineers, solicitors, statisticians, stores officers, structural engineers, surveyors

Teachers, technical authors, technical support staff, telecommunication officers, textile technologists, toxicologists, transmission engineers

Valuation officers, vehicle examiners, veterinarians, virologists

Waste-to-energy engineers, welfare officers

X-ray crystallographers

Youth treatment workers

Zoologists