Careers in Your Ears

Careers in Your Ears


Latest Episodes

Series 11: Episode 3: Is an internship a good idea?
November 01, 2024

This week's guest is Pippa Sterk, a postdoctoral teaching fellow at King's who was curious about where their research could take them. Seizing an opportunity, they successfully applied for a place on the King's Parliamentary Research Internship (for docto

Series 11: Episode 2: Return to King's
October 18, 2024

In this episode we meet Dr. Lienkie Diedericks, a King's PhD graduate. After completing her PhD Lienkie worked for the Royal Institute of British Architects on their equality and diversity initiatives. She has now returned to work at King's on research cu

Series 11: Episode 1: From Science PhD to Strategy Consulting
October 04, 2024

We're back with Series 11! We are delighted to be joined by King's PhD alumnus, Adrian Signell, Senior Associate at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Adrian completed a PhD in Biology and Genomics in 2023 and started it 'with the full intention to ride the a

Series 10: Ep. 7: A Humanities Story - PhD research, writing and journalism
May 31, 2024

In this episode we meet Joe Shute, a humanities PhD researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University. Joe is also a journalist and is about to publish his third book. In this podcast he talks about combining his three careers and offers us his insights on

Series 10: Ep6 Narrative CVs Demystified
May 17, 2024

Narrative CVs are an attempt to be able to surface all of the things which academics do in a structured way.We would like to invite all researchers and their supporters, developers and enablers to build their awareness of Narrative CVs (NCV) with this

Series 10: Ep5 UKRI Future Leaders Fellow - the highs and lows of fellowship applications
May 03, 2024

'It's really an art' - join us for an enjoyable and informative conversation with Antonio Forte about the ups and downs of applying for fellowships, the importance of resilience and building a supportive network and the joy of thinking outside

Series 10: Ep.4 - Research Funding from the Leverhulme Trust
April 19, 2024

In this episode, Dr. Sarah Burton, writer and researcher tells us about her career in education and about her experience of gaining funding from the Leverhulme Trust, what that meant to her and gives some tips on making an application. Many thanks to the

Series 10: Ep. 3 - Strategic Thinking in Your Academic Career
April 05, 2024

In this episode we are joined by Dr. Dmitry Kishkinev who is a lecturer in animal behaviour and behavioural neuroscience at Keele University. He tells us all about his career history, moving countries, the need to think strategically about your career and

Series 10: Ep2 Solving problems in academia, then in industry, and back again
March 22, 2024

I wanted to see what it was like in a different environment.For this episode, weve passed the mic to Lingxing Kong, a King's PhD student in his third year of research in Robotics, and an Inclusive Careers Education Ambassador (ICEA).Lingxing is j

Series 10: International Women's Day 2024 Special Episode
March 07, 2024

Were celebrating International Womens Day with a special episode and we're joined by Drs Amal Abuzainab, Lovelin Obi and Rokhshid Ghaziani who are all academic researchers, teachers and involved in many other things alongside their main careers. In