Career opportunities
As part of the CDT programme you will be given the opportunity to attend a set of career enhancing workshops, designed to develop your skills and readiness for entering the world of work. These include:
- It's never too early to start thinking about your career
- Setting yourself up for success
- Developing a research profile
- Commercialisation of research
- Excursions to industry
- University careers service with a dedicated PGR emphasis
- Bespoke 1-2-1 careers advice
- Engagement with an active CDT alumni
The CDT actively promotes student participation in placements/secondments/internships that will both broaden your skills and experiences and widen your network of colleagues.
Working closely with our business engagement partners and the GEIC we support students looking for opportunities to engage with industry and academic colleagues throughout the world.
Graphene NOWNANO PhD students have gone on to develop careers within academia, industry and the UK government office for science working as; research associates, biomedical scientists, entrepreneurs, software developers, engineers, materials scientists, computational mathematicians and many more.