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SUMMARY:Pitching your PhD for Non-Academic Jobs
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will explore;\n❏ Top tips for non-academic job applications\, CV writing and interviews\n❏ Pitching your PhD for non-academic jobs – formal and informal methods\n❏ Key skills\, experience\, and attributes needed in different sectors\n❏ Hacking real job applications\n❏ Skills and experience you want to develop during your PhD \nBy the end of the workshop\, you will have;\n❏ A better understanding of the types of jobs available now in different sectors and how to find them\n❏ Heard from professionals about how their PhDs informed their non-academic careers\n❏ Gained practical advice from sector experts on shaping your CV and interviewing\n❏ Practised pitching your PhD skills for non-academic jobs\n❏ Identified your priorities for professional development \nThis workshop will take place on Zoom and be facilitated by Hannah Bird & Dr Ceri Gorton from Bird & Gorton. \n  \nJeanette Bain-Burnett\nExecutive Director for Policy and Integrity\, Sport England  \nJeanette Bain-Burnett is Executive Director for Policy and Integrity at Sport England. She’s a passionate advocate for Equity\, Inclusion and Community Wellbeing. Jeanette’s 20-year leadership career spans dance theatre\, community arts\, cultural strategy\, regional government and social policy. Former roles include Director of Participation at the Trussell Trust and Assistant Director\, Communities and Social Policy at the Greater London Authority. Based in Bristol\, Jeanette is chair of ACTA Community Theatre\, Governor at St. Mary Redcliffe and Temple School\, and leads Dream Camp\, a girls’ empowerment charity \n  \nDr Alice Bell \nHead of Climate & Health Policy\, Wellcome Trust \n  \nDr Alice Bell is Head of Climate and Health Policy at the Wellcome Trust. She manages a team of policy professionals working across climate change\, infectious disease\, mental health and discovery research issues\, including a programme to secure and deliver the first health day at a UN climate conference. Prior to joining Wellcome in July 2022\, Alice co-ran the climate action charity Possible\, working on everything from clean home heating to solar powered railways\, fixing factories and wind powered ice cream. She has also worked as an academic\, writer and in the museum sector. She is the author of Can We Save the Planet? (Thames and Hudson\, 2020) and Our Biggest Experiment: a history of the climate crisis (Bloomsbury\, 2021)\, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation. \n  \nDr Poshendra Satyal \nSenior Policy Manager\, Birdlife International \nWith a background in the natural and social sciences\, Poshendra has several years of experience in interdisciplinary research\, teaching\, consultancy and project management in the environment and development sector. He currently holds the position of Senior Policy Manager at BirdLife International in Cambridge. As part of his role\, he coordinates BirdLife’s Global Policy Department’s work to enhance the BirdLife Partnership’s policy and advocacy capacity and support the delivery of conservation policy processes. Additionally\, he provides expert advice and guidance to the Partnership\, with a specific focus on global policies related to human development\, justice\, and rights. Poshendra also represents BirdLife in the Conservation Initiative on Human Rights (CIHR). \nBeyond his role at BirdLife\, Poshendra serves as a Trustee/Director of the Royal Geographical Society’s Mount Everest Foundation\, and as an Affiliate Senior Research Fellow at the Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (Nepal). \nPoshendra obtained his PhD from the Geography Department of The Open University\, UK (2005-2009)\, and an MPhil in Environment and Development from the University of Cambridge\, UK (2001-2002). Prior to coming to the UK\, he completed a BSc (Honours) in Agriculture from Haryana Agricultural University\, India (1996-2000) and a BSc from Tribhuvan University\, Nepal (1994-1996).
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/pitching-your-phd-for-non-academic-jobs/
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SUMMARY:Open House - UWE
DESCRIPTION:We at the SWDTP love connecting with our community and what better way than to come straight to you! The purpose of this meet-up is for students to have the chance to come and speak directly with the SWDTP team\, it need not be a PhD or academic-related discussion either\, we always love to simply see how our students are doing and help them in any way we can. \nIf you’d like to book a meeting with one of us\, please do drop us an email. You can find our profiles and contact details on the Meet the Team page of our website. And don’t forget\, you don’t have to have a specific request to come along. If you’d like a catch-up and a coffee (on us)\, we’d love to see you!\n\nLocation details to follow.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/open-house-uwe-3/
CATEGORIES:Open House
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