Careers
Whether you're interested in an academic career or working in other sectors, Careers and Placements can provide advice, information and guidance to help you explore your options, develop your skills and experience, and support you with job applications and interviews.
Postgraduate researcher career journey
During your PhD you will have a range of opportunities to develop your research and professional skills, but it can sometimes be difficult to find out what’s available, when you could do it, and whether it’s right for you. The postgraduate researcher career journey aims to support you from the point when you start your PhD, through to the later stages of career decision making and applications.
A range of opportunities is included, with a suggested timeline linked to your PhD progression, focused around three key themes: Researching your career options; Academic and professional development; and Applications and recruitment.
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Careers and Placements offer careers advice appointments specifically for postgraduate research students These can be use for careers advice and application/interview support. Find out about these and the other appointments available to you. Appointments can be booked online via Handshake.
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- Careers support for postgraduate researchers
- information about careers support and information resources available to postgraduate researchers at the University of York
- Careers support for online and distance learners
- find out how Careers and Placements offers information and support to students studying online and distance programmes.
Researcher training and development
- Training to support the career and professional development of postgraduate researchers is managed by the Building Research and Innovation Capacity (BRIC) team. Their Researcher Development programme includes workshops on employability and career development career choice led by Careers and Placements staff.
- The BRIC team also manages public engagement opportunities such as Three Minute Thesis and York Talks.
- Resources are available to help you to manage your professional development, including a prompt list of opportunities and a Professional Development Plan.
- Find out more about skills training and explore resources on the BRIC Google site (UoY login required)
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- Building skills and work experience through paid and voluntary work alongside your PhD
- The range of opportunities available to build your skills and work experience; using your Professional Development Plan; challenges and resources to support you.
- Professional development during your PhD
- Developing research and transferable skills that will be valuable in a range of professional contexts - both in and outside of academia.
International Students
The Graduate Visa is an immigration route which allows international students to stay in the UK for three years for work experience, after successfully completing a PhD. Once you have received your results the University’s visa team will notify you when you can make a graduate visa application, which must be done from within the UK.