Careers in Your Ears

Careers in Your Ears


Latest Episodes

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

Series 9: Ep5 - From Policy to Professor with Michael Sanders
December 01, 2023

Join us for an inspiring chat with Professor Michael Sanders as he lets us in on his approach for getting things done in academia, the need for code-switching to develop a career in multiple sectors and how to view and use your own privilege to empower ot

Series 9: Ep4 - Researcher Mobility: "There's no experience that's not experience"
November 24, 2023

Can researcher career paths span academia and industry? Is it possible to simultaneously work in both? Dr. Lizzy Moyce, Arup's Research Development Manager and Careers Consultant Laura Johnson explore these oft-asked questions. Lizzy gives us her tips

Series 9: Ep3 - Sex Robots and Research
November 17, 2023

In this episode we meet Chloe Locatelli, a PhD student at King's College London, who is currently close to completing her thesis on sex technology. We speak about the importance of her feminist approach to research, why her research has a 'wow&#39