Job market: Who’s still hiring researchers?

This session with Dr Will Grant will help you make strategic decisions about where to focus your job search efforts.

We will cover:

• Where PhD students usually go after graduation,
• The size and extent of non-academic job opportunities for graduates in ‘business as usual’ times,
• The effect of COVID-19 on the non-academic and academic job markets.

Dr Will Grant is Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at ANU. Awarded for his public policy and outreach work, Will has authored or co-authored dozens of works in various scholarly outlets (including Public Understanding of Science, Environmental Communication, Computers in Human Behaviour, Scientometrics and Higher Education Policy), and written commissioned and pitched articles and opinion pieces in high impact public facing outlets (including The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Conversation, Times Higher Education, The Canberra Times, The Brisbane Times, Crikey, The Drum, Climate Spectator and ABC Environment), focusing mostly on the interaction of science, politics and technology.

He is co-founder of the researcher employment service PostAc.