Academia and the World Beyond

A collection of 53 interviews may be too overwhelming—where should you start? Here I conducted a hierarchical qualitative classification to categorise and characterise potential career paths, from the individual career journeys featured in the two volumes. These results serve as a guide for current and prospective PhD students–and their mentors, emphasising the variety of professional contexts where doctoral training is beneficial.
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This book is a collection of 31 interviews with those who have completed a PhD and are now in a non-academic role. ...In these interviews, two broad non-academic career paths are explored: academic-adjacent careers use research expertise through industry, policy, and publishing; and skill-transfer careers, applying transferable abilities like critical thinking...
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This book is a collection of 22 interviews with those have completed a PhD and then are now in an academic position or another career path... Academic careers share many commonalities with many non-academic careers, with skills learned within academia being valuable in other career paths as well. Nearly all the individuals interviewed here have been on the job market recently and understand today's job climate.
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