Celebrating all the little things
Abbie Jones -
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…
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Let your CV show your potential
jobs.ac.uk careers -
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…
Moving to a New City and Finding a Job: What to Know
Frankie Wallace -
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…
The Art of the Alumni Profile
Adam Greenwood -
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.…
“What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
Maria Seijo-Richart -
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…
How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
Victoria Sherwood -
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…
9 tips to follow for a safer job search
Martin Ward -
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,…
A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
Andrew Clappison -
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…
How photography helped me during my PhD
Luana Chiquetto -
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…
Brexit: the multifaceted dimension of its demographic aspect
Guest Blogger -
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…
