{"id":494,"date":"2017-03-06T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/doctoralcollege\/?p=494"},"modified":"2017-03-06T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T07:00:12","slug":"what-do-postgraduate-researchers-do-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/doctoralcollege\/2017\/03\/06\/what-do-postgraduate-researchers-do-next\/","title":{"rendered":"What do postgraduate researchers do next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been getting a lot of questions lately on that eponymous question &#8211; <strong>what do postgraduate researchers do next?<\/strong>\u00a0Having a PhD is valued in most sectors, and there&#8217;s lots of information out there about the career paths open to you as a PhD graduate. <strong>This week, we thought we&#8217;d bring some of that information together on the Doctoral College blog.<\/strong> We&#8217;ll start with the broad picture, including the Vitae 2013 research project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitae.ac.uk\/impact-and-evaluation\/what-do-researchers-do\">What do researchers do?<\/a>, and move on to career destinations at Exeter, looking at our postgraduate researcher data from the annual Destinations of Leavers in HE (DLHE) survey. Finally, we&#8217;ll get down to the nitty gritty with some career profiles from Exeter PhD alumni.<\/p>\n<p>To begin our focus on careers, we&#8217;ll leave you with this &#8211; often shared by our careers coach Kate Foster in training sessions &#8211; which represents <strong>the widening horizons about what researchers can &#8216;do&#8217; with a PhD.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/doctoralcollege\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/2017\/02\/Widening-Horizons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-495 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/doctoralcollege\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/2017\/02\/Widening-Horizons.jpg\" alt=\"Widening Horizons\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/doctoralcollege\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/2017\/02\/Widening-Horizons.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/doctoralcollege\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/2017\/02\/Widening-Horizons-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/doctoralcollege\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/2017\/02\/Widening-Horizons-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/doctoralcollege\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/2017\/02\/Widening-Horizons-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been getting a lot of questions lately on that eponymous question &#8211; what do postgraduate researchers do next?\u00a0Having a PhD is valued in most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What do postgraduate researchers do next? 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