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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- Katie Ellis, a BA Geography student who took part in the Alumni Leadership Mentoring Programme. Mentored by Professor Shahbaz Khan, the Director and UNESCO Representative to the People's Republic of China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia and the Republic of Korea.
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- Story from Katie Whitehouse who works as a Civil Service Fast Streamer at the Department for Education as a Policy Officer who graduated from with a 1st in Psychology in 2020.
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