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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- Halimah, a student from the School of Pharmacy, used the Work Experience Bursary towards working as a volunteer at the Pharmacy World Congress.
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- Story from Hannah Belcher, a Bioresources Process Scientist at Severn Trent who studied M.Sc Biochemical Engineering and graduated in 2019.
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- Video story from Hannah Mei Grisley, a 2018 Modern Languages with Business Management graduate who participated in Careers Network Mentoring Scheme in 2020. Hannah is now a Law student.
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- Story from Harith Jayakody, a PhD Mechanical Engineer CDP at Air Products. Harith graduated in 2019 with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
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- Case study from Harriet Jordan, Global Challenge: The English Frankfurt Theatre Internship, who studied English with Creative Writing in 2016.
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- Sophie Kelly is Head of Digital Marketing at Hommage International Limited and studied BA English Language at University of Birmingham in 2017.
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- Case study from Helena Potter who graduated with a first in BA History, and is completing a virtual internship with CoachBright.
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- Case study from Henry Walker, Director's Personal Assistant at Department for Transport, who graduated with a BA History and Political Science, 2017.
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- Case study from Holly Hughes who is an Intern at Kids Club Kampala and studied MSc International Development in 2020
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- Student story from Hope Nath, a third year English Literature student who took part in Careers Network Mentoring Scheme.
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