From fuel cell research to commercialisation: Matt’s journey into Cambridge Enterprise
Dr Matt Wells talks about his journey from materials research to working in commercialisation and how his priorities evolved along the way.
Concrete Solutions: Pioneering Sustainability in Engineering Liz’s Journey from Cambridge PhD to Founder of a Climate-Tech Startup
Dr. Liz Zijing Li shares her journey from academic research at Cambridge to founding Mimicrete, a startup transforming concrete with self-healing technology. She reflects on sustainability, leadership, and innovation in infrastructure.
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Navigating the Transition From Academia Into A Meaningful Career In Healthcare
Eleanor Atkinson, a Senior Analyst at Costello Medical, shares how her academic skills and experiences helped her to transition into a meaningful career in medical consulting. Read more
Top tips from our panel on academic recruitment outside of the UK
We invited four former Cambridge researchers who have been through the process of academic recruitment in other countries to come back to talk about their experience. We heard what helped them to navigate their route internationally. If you haven’t had the chance to listen back to the full panel from last Michaelmas, here are some of their top tips for applications and interviews from their experience in navigating the academic job market internationally. And some of their top tips can be applied more broadly in academic recruitment. Read more
A lot goes on in the academic sector; do you know about it? And do you know why it’s important to your career?
Like any sector in the economy, academia is made up of a diverse set of organisations which are influenced by a range of political, social and economic factors. It’s a highly international sector with a wide range of ways of operating, stakeholders and influences. In this blog, Careers Consultants, Lucy Romijn and Vicki Tipton outline some of the key components of the sector and the influences they have and highlight why it’s important for your career to develop an awareness of what’s going on in academia. Read more
It’s Postdoc Appreciation Week 2024!
To celebrate you this Postdoc Appreciation Week we wanted to remind you of how the careers service supports you getting to all the places you’re aiming to get to. Read more
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
