Careers Beyond Academia: Options and Pathways for Researchers will take place from 24 – 27 March 2025, online and in-person in Oxford.
Run by the Careers Service’s expert careers advisers, Careers Beyond Academia: Options and Pathways for Researchers is a FREE conference that offers Oxford University researchers the chance to join online panel talks with PhD holders and former academic researchers speaking frankly about their daily working lives in a variety of sectors, attend in-person networking events with peers and employers, and take part in interactive workshops to help you identify skills and strategies for optimising your career preparedness.
Whether you are curious about or actively pursuing a career beyond academia, you will benefit from joining the conference.
The 2025 conference will feature information sessions, workshops, and guest speaker talks from Monday 24 March to Wednesday 26 March 2025, and will culminate with an in-person panel event and the Careers Fair for Researchers on Thursday 27 March 2025 at the Mathematical Institute.
For more details please see the conference webpage
The events are open to all current Oxford University DPhil students and research staff and are free to attend.
Oxford University research staff and students who have a CareerConnect account should sign up to all the sessions that they want to attend on the event pages in CareerConnect.
Oxford University research staff who DO NOT have a CareerConnect account can gain access on the CareerConnect registration page. NOTE: Once you have requested a CareerConnect account, it can take a few hours for it to be approved. Once the account is approved, you will receive a confirmation email that you can login to CareerConnect and register for events.
NIHR researchers, and other University research staff who are NOT ELIGIBLE for a CareerConnect account should email hello@careers.ox.ac.uk to register their interest in attending.
For any problems with registration, please contact hello@careers.ox.ac.uk
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