Information for Postgraduate Students

As a postgraduate student at the University of Bristol you have access to a full range of services offered by the Careers Service.

• Postgraduate Research Students
• Postgraduate Taught Masters Students
• Careers Advice and Information for International Students
• What do postgraduate students do next?

News and forthcoming events

View all events for research postgraduates and events for taught postgraduates

Lunchtime Careers Seminars

These sessions involve two Bristol PhD alumni or previous research staff talking about their transition to a non-academic job. The focus will be on how they generated ideas for jobs, how they went about finding and applying for jobs, the important skills that they developed during their research and how these transferred into a non-academic environment, plus any other tips that they may have on how to sell yourself outside academia.

The sessions take place on Tuesdays over lunchtime from 12.30 - 1.30pm in the Careers Service. As the speakers are confirmed this page will be updated. You may want to make a note of the dates:

7 February 2012
6 March 2012
3 April 2012
1 May 2012
12 June 2012
3 July 2012
4 September 2012
2 October 2012
6 November 2012
4 December 2012

As spaces are limited you are advised to sign-up. Sign-up will be via the events pages once speakers are confirmed.

You can find details of the careers seminars held in 2009 and 2010 including the presentations and audio recordings, on the Careers Service downloads

Don't miss the Vitae website. It is specifically for researchers, with excellent advice on marketing yourself for academic and non-academic careers. There are also lots of great events for skills development.

The Research Staff pages also have useful information