Post-PhD – FERSA University of Cambridge Blog

Building a Post-PhD Career: Some Practical Early Career-Building Steps

Dr. Sara Clarke-Habibi shares her advice on building a post-PhD career. She addresses aspects such as visibility, networking, taking on small engagements, and getting good recommendations. She also shows how some of the disappointments she experienced during the process turned out to be helpful after all.

Going Alt-Ac After a PhD in Education

I spent most of my PhD worrying about what I was going to do once I finished it. I had an idea of what I wanted to do but I just could not find the place to do it. My research focuses on the intersection of human rights and education and I wanted to keep on working on both aspects of it. This was a nightmare in terms of job hunting. Human Rights Education is quite a new field so there were not many positions available – only one since 2014, to be precise – and positions in education faculties had little or no connections with human rights at all.