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Transition Q & A: Alison Norman
The latest Q & A is by Alison Norman, a history PhD who moved into a government researcher role where she’s doing important work. “I get to be a historian on a daily basis, and put my knowledge and skills to good use,” she writes. Here’s an excerpt: What most surprises you about your job?…
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Congratulations to us!
I attended the Canadian Online Publishing Awards ceremony last evening in Toronto, with my University Affairs editor Ashleigh VanHouten. The magazine took home 5 gold wins in the blue division (business-to-business), including best blog or column for From PhD to Life! I don’t know exactly what content the magazine shared when it entered my blog…
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Grad school is part of your career
This one was inspired by a group session I had with a few McMaster University engineering PhD students. The interviewed me about my job and career. One question in particular got me thinking. An excerpt: As for those current students, I hope they can do as I didn’t. When I was a student, I spent…
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Transition Q & A: Paul Hartley
Paul’s finishing up his PhD in ethnomusicology. After he returned from fieldwork in Turkey, he started working in the private sector. His work is fascinating! I have to admit that despite this, I had a naïve view of academia and thought that it was simply an extension of grad school. The closer I got, the…
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Transition Q & A: Christine Buske
What’s an extroverted biology PhD to do? Well, for Christine, the current answer is to work as head of outreach for a software company! About a year before finishing my PhD I started working part-time for Papers (the reference manager). It was a great job and I knew I had a good chance of staying…
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My new mission: From PhD to Life, the book!
Oh, this is a bit scary! Yup, I’m working on a book. It’s about the emotional transition part of going “from PhD to life,” whatever that means for each person. More about what I’m planning over at University Affairs.
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Transition Q & A: Pablo Dominguez Andersen
I love this story! Pablo did a history PhD and originally aimed at working as a professor. But as he finished his degree he realized he wanted to stay in Berlin, so his options were limited, academic job-wise. He’s ended up in a marvelous, exciting position, pretty unrelated to his dissertation research. What do you…
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Beyond the Professoriate was a success!
Thank you to all who attended or spoke at the conference! It was a great event. More of my thoughts in my latest blog post for University Affairs.
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Beyond the Professoriate conference preview
Beyond the Professoriate is coming up soon! Maren and I are very excited and thrilled with the group we’ve gathered. Read the full preview here. An excerpt: My conference is coming up fast! Beyond the Professoriate will bring together 25 PhDs from a wide variety of disciplines – engineering to ethnomusicology, genetics to German – who…
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Transition Q & A: Kara Santokie
My friend Kara worked as a professor in Bangladesh for a year after earning her PhD in political science, then returned to Toronto — she did her PhD at U of T — and found a job managing programs for a local nonprofit organization. Since then, she’s been promoted to executive director. Read her story…