In this episode Pearl Osirikeshares her story and some of the most important lessons she has learned during her PhD so far. Pearl is a biochemist with an interest in drug discovery and infectious diseases. She holds a first-class degree and a masters degree from the University of Benin, Nigeria, where she also serves as an Assistant Lecturer. Currently, she is a second year PhD student of Molecular and Cell Biology of Infectious Diseases at the West African Centre for Cell Biology and Infectious Pathogens at the University of Ghana.
Pearl is passionate about teaching and research and she is excited to share her story to motivate and inspire others.
To learn more about Pearl’s story, please listen to this episode. If you also have a story to be told or if you know someone, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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For complete show notes and a transcript of the podcast, visit www.phdcareerstories.com.
This is the second episode of Fabian Taube, in which he will share five tips on how to survive outside of academia after an academic career.
In his first podcast Fabian shared his story transforming from academia to a specialist in preventive medicine at the Swedish Armed Forces Center for Defense Medicine. So if you have not listen to his first podcast, don’t hesitate to do so.
Bellow you find the title of these tips:
1-Sort out the pros and cons before accepting a certain position.
2-Let the organization know your big advantage.
3-Make contact and collaborate.
4-Make yourself and your coworkers satisfied.
5- If you aim at becoming a leader you should first question your purpose of wanting to become a leader.
To learn more about Fabian’s tips, please listen to this episode. If you also have a story to be told or if you know someone, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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PhD Career Stories podcast marks its third anniversary!
We can hardly believe it ourselves, but we are extremely proud that for three years we managed to bring you every two weeks a new inspiring story from our speakers and share with you our thoughts about PhD life and - importantly - the life after it.
We are also happy to say that we are not going to stop - our team is continuously growing and new exciting projects and ideas are waiting to be realized. So stay tuned and keep us in your podcast subscriptions!
To celebrate, one lovely summer evening a part of our team sat at the virtual round table to discuss one of the hardest topics in career development - how to stay resilient during the career transition?
Tina Persson offered for this discussion the questions that helped to unfold the concept of "resilience" and brought interesting notions and personal tips from the team members Michele Manzo, Jo Havemann, Subbu Surrendran, and Natalia Stolyarchuk:
1. Why do so many PhDs stress out at the end of their PhD?
2. What is an academic “bubble” and how does it prevent PhDs from looking beyond their thesis?
3. What could help PhDs to be more confident and resilient in the process?
4. How - and why - shall we talk about failures?
5. Why digital platforms such as FB and LinkedIn are still so unpopular among PhDs?
6. Why is it so hard for many PhDs to just stay between jobs?
Listen to the episode to know what came out of it!
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