Morning Session – What’s out there? – exploring possibilities and career choices:
09:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:30 Opening & Plenary Session
Conference Committee: Welcome and Open proceedings
Keynote Speech: Prof Pauline Dixon
10:45 – 11:30 Parallel panel sessions
Working in Non Academic Research & Consultancy
Working in Public and Voluntary sectors
Working in the Cultural & Heritage Sector
Creative Practice & the Freelancer
11:30 – 12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 – 12:45 Parallel panel sessions
Working in Academia and Education – research and teaching roles
Working in Academia – professional support roles
Working with Words – Creative Writing, Translation, Writing for the Media
Working in Education sector
12:45 – 2.00 Lunch and Information Central
Including Careers Service, Rise Up Enterprise Support, Piirus – piirus.ac.uk, HEA Fellowship Information, Teach First
Afternoon Session – How to get there?
2.00 – 2.40 Digitising our futures: early career professionalization in the digital sphere
2.40 – 4:30 Presenting your skills as a Researchers, interactive session – Dr Chris Humphrey
4:30 – 5:00 Thank you / close & take home messages – Professor Helen Berry, Dean of Postgraduate Studies
5:00 – 6:00 Drinks reception and Networking