Dr. Paula Chambers, the founder of Versatile PhD,  will meet with a handful of graduate students for an industry careers roundtable discussion. There is limited room for this event. After registering, you will be notified if you have been selected. This event will NOT be live streamed.

Sponsored by the Professional Development Initiative, this presentation offers faculty and staff a three-point plan for how to improve mentoring in the area of non-academic careers. Based on her book "Subject Matter Plus: Mentoring for Non-Academic Careers," Dr. Paul Chambers will provide concrete, doable steps that do not require a major time investment. This event […]

After briefly telling her own post-PhD story, Dr. Chambers reveals what the PhD career pipeline really looks like (it is a branchingpipeline) and contrasts academic and non-academic understandings “results.” Then she leads attendees through a well-organized sequence of hands-on activities in which they will identify their own most results-rich accomplishments from this new non-academic perspective […]