PhD graduate careers stories
Careers case studies can help to illustrate the wide range of career options available to you after graduation.
You may also find that they provide useful advice, and give you insight into day to day life in different job roles.
You can visit our growing bank of PGR Careers case studies from University of Birmingham graduates to find out what former PGRs have gone on to do.
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- Case study from Baljinder Singh Atwal, a Solicitor at West Midlands Police who studied LLB Law in 2015
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- Student story from Ben Rendle, a Technical Analyst & Developer at Broadridge who graduated in 2019 with a a PhD in Physics.
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- Story from Ben Salisbury, a Project Support Officer/Fast Streamer at the Civil Service: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Ben graduated in 2022 with a PhD in Roman History.
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- Story from Bradley West, a Sports Journalist at Sportsbeat who graduated in 2017 and studied BA History with English.
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- Case study from Stephen Bowcott, Global Challenge: British Consulate internship, Chicago, USA, who studied BA History in 2015.
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- Case study from Brittany Moster Bergonzi, English Literature PhD graduate who graduated in 2020, now working as an academic librarian. Advice on how to get into a career in academic librarianship and on finding a job after a PhD.
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- Fiona Burns is a Business Intelligence Analyst at Odgers Berndtson and studied BA Philosophy, Religion and Ethics here at the University of Birmingham.
Video from Tom Rusbridge - PhD History, 2020
Video from Dr Feylyn Lewis - PhD Social Work, 2018.
Harith Jayakody - PhD Mechanical Engineering, 2019
Amandeep Kaur - PhD Immunology & Immunotherapy, 2020
Werther Vecchiato - PhD Cardiovascular Sciences, 2021
Wei-Sheng Lin - PhD Byzantine Studies, 2019
Georgina Fitzgibbon - PhD Medieval History, 2019
Video from Arthur Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick - PhD Management Mathematics, 2021
Carys Howell - PhD Biosciences, 2020
Taron Nijar – MSc by Research - Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, 2021
Matilde Aliffi - PhD Philosophy, 2019
Isabel M. Ornelas - PhD Nanophysics, 2020
James Barnett - MPhil English Literature
Vasilisa Takoeva - PhD Management
Simina Rebegea - PhD Mechanical Engineering
Manu Sasidharan - MSc Civil Engineering and Management, 2014
Lewis Ward - PhD in Immunology
Alessandro Lazdins - PhD in Biosciences
Victoria Schuppert - PhD Classics