‘Careers in Your Ears’ is a fantastic careers Podcast for PhD Students and Research Staff made my the specialist researcher careers team at King’s College London. In 2025 I had the honour of being a guest for the show; in my episode (below) we discuss how to tell your story in a way that employers beyond academia will understand what you bring, the challenge of not knowing all the job titles, how to curate your LinkedIn experience to work for you, and a fun metaphor involving an avocado!
Having been a fan of Sarah McClusky’s Research Adjacent podcast for a while, it was great to be featured in an episode in January 2025. In it, I talk to Sarah about why career advice from the perspective of ‘this worked for me, it’ll work for you’ can be problematic, as well as managing disabilities and health conditions at work, and why we need a new vocabulary to describe post-academic career options.
In December 2023 I had the pleasure of speaking to Prof. Dr Eleonore Soei-Winkels for her Postdoc Transformation podcast. The episode shared thoughts on how to address tensions between PhD supervisors and researchers when it comes to careers and professional development, and how being open about the ‘politics’ of PhD student recruitment could help prospective PhDs make more informed decisions:
Find out more about my professional journey from PhD to career guidance practitioner on my ‘Research Careers’ case study profile.
I really enjoyed talking to the PhD Balance team about PhD career transitions beyond academia. Here’s the podcast episode from February 2022:
In the podcast interview below with Dr Nicole Tshierske for Women in STEM, Reimagined in September 2021, I discuss top tips for smoothing your transition from academia to industry:
In the recording below, I feature as a panellist alongside Dr Fawzi Abou-Chahine for ‘PhDone,’ talking about my own post-PhD job hunt and journey, plus tips for transitioning beyond academia:
And here is ‘episode 2’ of ‘PhDone,’ where I appear alongside Dr Fawzi Abou-Chahine and Dr TJ Preston to discuss how to take care of your mental health in the post-PhD job hunt: