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Research Careers Beyond Academia: A Guide for PhDs outside the ‘hard’ sciences
Three years ago, I started co-running an event focused on research careers beyond academia. Now, I’m not talking about research scientists working in labs ‘in industry’… I’m talking about the many humanities and social sciences PhDs/ former postdocs with research-focused roles (think policy research, social research, qualitative and quantitative research) across all kinds of different…
No Crystal Ball: What PhDs Need to Know About AI and Work
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 and talking AI. And frankly, it’s about time. Leaving academia can already feel like a huge decision. ‘What if I hate it? If I do, can I…
From PhD to Consulting: An Insider’s Guide
‘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 about career options (which is, well, a LOT of the time…), I often ask them to tell me if they’ve looked at any options…
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