Featuring Presentations from:

Dr Nick Peters – Post-PhD: Life as a Coventry University FAH Sonic Arts Alumnus

Nick’s presentation will explore life post-PhD as a FAH alumnus. Topics covered include: hunting for academic jobs in the arts, gaining additional qualifications, portfolio-building, collaborating with artists from other disciplines (including one of the world’s leading animators), and setting up a sound therapy business.

Nick’s PhD thesis is available to read from our Pure Portal at: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/golden-sunset-blue-rain

Dr Beena Manoj – PhD to Postdoc: Career Planning (Presentation starts at 30:18)

This presentation describes the critical areas PGRs need to focus on to plan for their future career: 1) Identifying suitable career opportunities and establishing career goals 2) Developing personal skills and networking capabilities 3) Defining a roadmap for career success

Dr Darren Stevens – I’ve got a PhD! Now what? (Presentation starts at 1:05:00)

Darren describes his two year journey from graduate to business owner.

Darren’s PhD thesis is available to read from our Pure Portal at: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/does-constructed-development-exist-as-a-conceptual-measure-of-sel

Darren’s personal website is available at: http://darrenstevens.co.uk/

This themed Research Café event was held as part of the 2022 Research Hootenanny series of events organised by the Doctoral College. For a listing of the other events which the Research & Scholarly Publications team organised, please see our Blog Post from the beginning of the year.