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celebrating

Celebrating all the little things

Abbie Jones - April 20, 2020

Celebrating all the little things A PhD is a strange beast. It is a huge amount of work, over a long period of time, and completing this is something to…

CV

Let your CV show your potential

jobs.ac.uk careers - February 27, 2019

When your CV reaches a prospective employer it needs to stand out against the competition to make it through the first round of rejections.  Errors such as spelling mistakes, bad…

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Moving to a New City and Finding a Job: What to Know

Frankie Wallace - October 24, 2018

For anyone, finding a new job can be daunting. But if you’re moving to a new city where you don’t know anyone, it can be even more terrifying. However, you…

alumni

The Art of the Alumni Profile

Adam Greenwood - August 13, 2018

Alumni relations typically involves a wide-range of marketing and communication activities. This often includes networking events, newsletters, annual magazines, fostering online communities, and day-to-day engagement through usual office contact channels.…

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“What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option

Maria Seijo-Richart - May 18, 2018

Around fifteen years ago, I met a girl whose friends deemed her crazy because she decided to study Arab (“What for?”). She ended having the last laugh when an oil…

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How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers

Victoria Sherwood - February 7, 2018

The term ‘transferable skills’ is a bit dry, but essentially it accounts for the things you learn beyond your subject-specific expertise that can be applied to other employment positions. In…

safer jobs

9 tips to follow for a safer job search

Martin Ward - January 15, 2018

Recruitment fraud is a serious crime which often goes unreported by jobseekers. Scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and believable, they come in many guises and affect people in different ways,…

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A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”

Andrew Clappison - January 9, 2018

The strengths offered by PhD graduates can soon turn into weaknesses when entering a non-academic career. In this blog, I spell out what some of these strengths are and aim…

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How photography helped me during my PhD

Luana Chiquetto - October 31, 2017

Everyone knows that to undertake a PhD is stressful. Long hours of work, results, and data that don’t meet your expectations, deadlines and more deadlines, the pressure to publish with…

Directions

Brexit: the multifaceted dimension of its demographic aspect

Guest Blogger - March 14, 2016

In our latest guest blogpost Simon Mercieca writes about a topical issue with links to his research interests. The study of demography is mostly associated with the understanding of economic…

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