Careers and professional development
Careers advice and support
You’re entitled to use the wide range of services offered by the University’s Careers Service, which provides a range of help and advice to assist you in planning your career and making well-informed decisions along the way.
Our employability team also organises an annual STEM Careers Fair, which gives you the opportunity to meet more than 100 graduate recruiters, gain insight into graduate jobs, and explore work experience and internship opportunities. Recruiters have included:
- Unilever
- Bentley
- Jaguar Land Rover
- BAE Systems
- GSK
- Mars Incorporated
- BP
The range of careers open to you upon completion of your PhD is broad and not limited to academia, some of which are listed here:
- GlaxoSmithKline – Process Chemist
- Unilever – Mathematical Modeller
- Coastline Surveys Ltd – Geotechnical Engineer
- Glaxo Smith Kline – Research Chemist
- LG Display – Chief Research Engineer
- Home Office – Scientific Officer
- King's College London – Research Associate
- Government Statistical Service – Higher Statistical Officer
- Yale University – Post-Doctoral Associate
- Rolls-Royce – Thermofluids Engineer
- British Sugar – Laboratory Services Manager
- F2 Chemicals Ltd – Research Chemist
- Dotmatics – Senior Application Scientist
- IBM – Data Specialist
- BT (British Telecommunications PLC) – Researcher
- AstraZeneca – Research & Development
- ST Ericsson – GPS Software Modeller
- University of Nottingham – Lecturer