Celebrating Postdoctoral Destinations Research Project
Have you completed a postdoctoral contract at Cambridge since March 2019?
Knowing what former postdoctoral employees do after they leave the University of Cambridge and what motivates them in their careers is valuable for a variety of reasons. Cambridge Careers Service will soon be distributing a 5-10 minute survey whose results may help current postdocs with careers planning, inform decisions by policymakers, and promote recruitment of former postdocs by employers.
A Discussion of Precarity in Early Career Academia for Researchers from AHSS
On the 4th of June, ECRs from AHSS took part in the seminar ‘Precarity: a conversation. Forging career trajectories in arts, humanities and social sciences’. The event was organised by Joshua Fitzgerald and Georgina Wilson, ECRs at Churchill and Jesus Colleges and representatives for the AHSS ECR Assembly, and co-convened by Marie Collier and Katherine Dawson from the Action Research on Research Culture (ARRC) Team.
Find your Future in History: Careers with a History PhD
Three History PhD alumni recently generously came back to the Seeley Library to tell the stories of their lives post their history PhD at Cambridge. Read on to be inspired by their journeys.
Postdoc Appreciation Week 2023
Thank you, Postdocs!
We in the Cambridge Careers Service would like to thank the postdoc community at the University of Cambridge for all that you are, and all that you do. We meet you every day in our appointments and at events across Cambridge, and are constantly impressed by your commitment and inspired by your research.
Read on for more of what we appreciate about you.
The process of making a career transition from research to a non-research role
Anne Forde, Careers Consultant, highlights some of the take-home messages from a guest speaker at our Careers Beyond Research event.
Careers Beyond Research Networking Event
What I learned about radio broadcasting and podcast careers
The biggest growth seems to be ‘behind the scenes’ – producing content”. Anne Forde, Careers Consultant here at the CS, dives into some top tips from a recent panel we held
Making it in Academia: It is all about FIT!
