Careers in Your Ears

Careers in Your Ears


Latest Episodes

Series 2; Episode 5: What to do during your PhD? With Stephanie Arnold
June 28, 2019

Stephanie Arnold, until very recently a King's PhD student, and now Senior Scientist at Astra Zeneca, talks to Careers Consultant, Vicki Tipton about how she worked out what she wanted to do after the doctorate.  She goes on to talk about the value o

Series 2, Episode 4: Remote Careers Support for part-time and remote PhD students
June 21, 2019

Vicki Tipton talks with Craig Dooley, KCL's E-Learning Development Advisor in the Centre for Doctoral Studies. In this edition of Careers in Your Ears, Craig and Vicki focus on part time and remote PhD students. How do they manage their career thinking an

Series 2 Episode 3: Managing your career
June 14, 2019

In this episode Donald Lush talks to Julia Yates and Tristram Hooley, two academics who research career thinking and planning. We discuss the latest research and the practical advice emerging from it as well as considering how the world of work is likely

Series 2; Episode 2: From academia to government: working on the UK's exit from the EU
June 07, 2019

In this episode Kate Murray, Careers Consultant, talks with Dr Alessandro di Bona, an EU Exit Policy Adviser. You'll hear about Alessandro's time as a PhD student and whether it connects to his current role. He has some top tips too, for those aspiring to

Series 2; Episode 1: Moving from Academia to Data Insights in the Pharmaceutical Industry
May 31, 2019

 This edition of Careers in Your Ears, the podcast for researchers at King’s College London, is hosted by Kate Murray, Careers Consultant for Researchers and Deputy Head of King’s Careers & Employability.   Kate was on site at Roche, th

Bonus Episode: International Women's Day with Dr Sarah Barry
March 08, 2019

It's International Women's Day 2019, and the campaign this year is 'Better the Balance, Better the World', so in today's bonus episode we talk to Dr Sarah Barry, a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Biology at King's College London about her career in academia a

Series 1; Episode 5 - Self Employment with Miranda Asher
March 01, 2019

Miranda Asher is PhD student and a part time consultant. In this episode she talks about balancing her workload, the attractions and challenges of self-employment and the issues you should pay attention to when you work for yourself.

Series 1; Episode 4 - Careers in Academia with Dr Nicola Leveringhaus
February 22, 2019

In this episode, we talk with Dr Nicola Leveringhaus, a lecturer in the War Studies department at King's College London.  We discuss her career journey in academia, how to get into good time management habits and how to profile your research interest

Series 1; Episode 2 - Imaging Sciences with Dr Dan Metcalf
February 08, 2019

In this episode, Dr. Dan Metcalf tells us about his PhD research and how it led to a career installing high resolution microscopes at the imaging company Nikon. He also talks about the qualities, skills and experience required to work in his team.