Career support for doctoral students

Your career aspirations may change during your doctoral studies, so it’s important to engage with the professional development planning (PDP) process as early as you can. Here are some tools and resources to help you:

• Vitae.ac.uk — Researcher Development Framework: explore the knowledge, behaviours and attributes of successful researchers — many of which are transferable outside of academia

• Vitae.ac.uk — PDP for researchers online course: take this free, in-depth course, which covers all stages of the PDP process

• Vitae.ac.uk — researcher careers: get inspiration and advice for pursuing an academic or non-research career. You can register to view additional content and receive updates.

• Jobs.ac.uk: discover e-books and toolkits about career planning and researcher pathways

• Prospects.ac.uk: access career advice and tools for career planning and job matching, to help you transfer your research skills to a variety of sectors

• ResearchGate: boost your research impact and visibility, share your publications, get statistics, find jobs, and connect and collaborate with colleagues

• The Conversation: develop your writing skills by blogging about your work on this website

Manchester Met resources

Whatever your career aspirations, we offer tools to help you develop the skills you need. Here are some ideas:

• Faculty development opportunities: explore what is on offer by contacting your Doctoral Services team

• SkillsForge: view information about careers events for doctoral students

• My Career Hub: find out about careers events, search for jobs, and find ways you can contact the Careers Service

• Career Centre: access a wide range of e-learning resources to support your career and professional development

• CV guide for postgraduate researchers: advice to help you create an academic or non-academic CV

Jobs during your research degree

Jobs4Students

To find out about temporary on-campus job opportunities while you study, visit Jobs4Students.

Teaching

Teaching during your degree can help you develop skills that will benefit you in any career. Here are some useful resources to explore:

• Manchester Met’s University Teaching Academy (UTA) can help you to provide quality learning for your students

• The Brilliant Club places researchers in schools to teach courses based on their research. This helps increase access to universities in less-advantaged schools.

Jobs after you graduate

Visit these websites for job opportunities and advice:

• Jobs.ac.uk: View jobs at universities around the world and career advice

• Times Higher Education: Look for academic and university vacancies on this global job board

• Guardian Education: Browse jobs in higher education

• FindAPostDoc: Search job opportunities for new and recently-qualified PhDs and view career advice

• Euraxess: Discover research jobs, funding opportunities, advice and more on this British Council-managed portal

• Researchers in Schools: Explore this teacher training and development programme for researchers, run by the Brilliant Club