Profile: Joanne
Key facts
PhD discipline: History
Area(s) of work: Publishing
Year of graduation: 2002
Date of Interview: 18/06/2008
Year of graduation: 2002
Date of Interview: 18/06/2008
Timeline
How can careers advisers help me to market my PhD successfully?The group discusses the rise in the number of...
How can the value of the PhD be translated for non-academic employers?The careers advisers discuss how employers may...
Joanne - adviceJoanne offers advice for someone leaving academia in pursuit of a career in publishing.
Joanne - background to the PhDJoanne provides some background details to her life before and during the PhD.
Joanne - career building during the PhDJoanne recalls her attitude to career planning during her PhD and considers how she might have done things differently.
Joanne - commissioning editorJoanne describes her current role as a commissioning editor for an academic press and goes into detail about her work environment and culture and what a typical day might involve.
Joanne - connections between your Phd and your current roleJoanne explores the connections between her PhD and her current job. She reflects on the attitudes of her employer, colleagues and clients to her PhD and identifies what it is about the PhD that equips her for her job.
Joanne - do you have any regrets about leaving academia?Joanne explains why she chose not to pursue a career in academia and reflects on why this was the right decision for her. She offers some advice to those about to embark on a PhD.
Joanne - expectations of where the PhD might leadJoanne contemplates where she expected her PhD to lead.
Joanne - finishing up and moving onJoanne recounts finishing her PhD, reconsidering the possibility of pursuing an academic career path and then deciding that a job in academic publishing was ultimately more appealing than academia itself.
Joanne - paid work and teaching during the PhDJoanne explains how she funded her PhD with a temporary job.
Joanne - preparing for an academic careerJoanne overviews the academic career building activities she engaged in during her PhD.