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One TWO, one TWO … is this thing on? It’s been a long silence, but we’re back, with a great new act about to make her debut on the “Introducing Stage”. Job changes have sadly left me no time to nurture my beloved postgrad blog, but at last we’ve recruited a fantastic new postgraduate careers…
I’m Jordan Paterson and In September I started a Masters in Forensic Psychology & Mental Health at the University of Manchester after graduating from the University of Bolton in 2013 with a 2:1 in Criminological & Forensic Psychology. After completing my degree, I started a fixed-term Graduate Internship at the University of Bolton in the Careers Service. Other…
Read more Why having a terrible interview was the best thing that ever happened to me
I love Pathways, our annual PhD careers options mega-event – and it turns out I’m not the only one. Here’s a great guest post from Chris Manley, Senior Careers Consultant at Warwick University who visited Pathways this year, gratefully reproduced from The Careers Blog at Warwick. Life after the PhD – by Chris Manley The…
In case you missed the reference in the Pathways post, we’re delighted to have Antonieta Podesta Mevius coming to the University this Friday, 6th June, to talk about recruitment into the World Bank Young Professionals Programme. The talk and this programme are aimed at PhDs, and at Masters with at least 3 years relevant experience.…
It’s almost upon us – our annual PhD career options event, Pathways 2014 takes place on Friday 6th June, in the Renold Building (register on C floor concourse). It’s free, and open to all University of Manchester current PhDs and research staff. The event gives you the chance to hear from people who’ve already got…
If someone had asked me at the start of my final year of my undergraduate degree, ‘do you fancy doing a PhD when you finish uni?’ my answer would have been an outright NO! Yet, here I am, now in my second year of my PhD in the role of exercise on cardiovascular disease risk in…
Read more Manchester Made Me – From undergraduate to PhD student
