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A guide to research careers outside academia with case studies from two former PhDs/postdocs in research roles outside academia.

Navigating Careers Beyond Academia offers an evidence-based, step-by-step guide to successful career transition beyond academia. It provides an accessible overview of scholarship in the field of caree...

Chat GPT reaches PhD levels of intelligence!AI threatens to eliminate a hundred million jobs! That’s right people, we’re going there. In this post, we’re biting the fourth-industrial-revolution bullet...

Julie Gould learns of a career-planning framework that can help pinpoint what you love about your current role, and how that can influence future job moves.

‘The key is that you are not selling your subject knowledge, you’re selling your methodology.’ – Pierbruno Ricci, author of From Science to Consulting Whenever I talk to PhD researchers one-on-one abo...

In this in-depth post, Holly Prescott, the PGR Careers Advisor from Careers Network, shares practical advice from the PGR Careers in Academia webinar series earlier this summer, offering strategies…

Careers in Your Ears · Episode

‘Society needs more, not fewer, people […] who can read, critique, and synthesise complex and competing arguments.’ – Katina L. Rogers, Putting the Humanities PhD to Work When I was coming towards the...

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Registration is open for the next Brain Products Academy webinar: Life beyond your PhD: Navigating your next career steps

Registration is open for the next Brain Products Academy webinar: Life beyond your PhD: Navigating your next career steps

I’ve never been much of a fan of romantic comedies. I mean, even before spending 8 years as a humanities student analysing and deconstructing narrative tropes and gender stereotypes (!), I never bough...

‘How many of the criteria do I need to meet to be considered for a job?’ It’s a question that never goes away. It’s a particular bugbear for researchers looking to move into sectors beyond academia, a...

How to identify 'PhD-friendly' employers, and manage conversations with those less likely to understand the value of a PhD.

I remember the day when weekends away with friends would begin by comparing the new outfits we’d each bought for the holiday. Now we’re into our 40s, it seems that comparing new threads has been repla...