If you’re considering a career in Academia, it’s worth doing your research to make sure that it’s the right path for you. With the Careers Service’s Get Into Academia week taking place the week beginning the 21st November, we thought it’d be useful to highlight some sources of information for you to check prior to the week itself so you can come along armed with questions for the events themselves.
The Graduate Prospects website has a good overview of postgraduate study as a whole. It includes information to help demystify the different types of postgraduate paths, such as the difference between taught and research courses, as well as looking at the pros and cons of postgraduate study, the costs involved and how to choose the institution or course that’s right for you.
Prospects also produce a number of different publications for postgraduates.
Postgrad magazine includes information and articles on all manner of areas and issues faced by postgraduates, including overviews of postgraduate opportunities in different fields and personal account from current students, academics and experts.
The Postgraduate Directory lists all the different postgraduate courses available throughout the UK and Ireland.
The Postgraduate Funding Guide provides information on the different ways of funding postgraduate study to help you work out whether it’s a viable path for you.
There are a limited number of takeaway copies of each publication available for UCL students to collect from the Careers Service but both are also available digitally through the Prospects website.
For those wanting to look a bit further into the future, the resources page of the Careers Service’s Researchers website is well worth a look. It includes information on what postgraduates at UCL and beyond have gone on to do once they have finished their courses, audio files of academics talking about their own career paths, information on how to develop an academic career and links to other academia related resources. There is also information on research and postdoc applications and academic networking, the latter being particularly handy if you’re planning on attending the Getting Into Academia forum on the 24th.
More information on Getting Into Academia week, including a the full program of events, is available on the Get Into… pages of our website.
Booking is essential for all of the events and is done through your My Careers Service account. More information on using My Careers Service, including how to log in, can be found here.
