Career Opportunities after the PhD

3rd Year VITRIMAT Workshop on Transversal Skills

This workshop was organised by SIRIS academics as part of the VITRIMAT Consortium to offer support in the design and development of the VITRIMAT Training on Transversal-skills. Nowadays, it is well accepted that PhD studies are an asset to the economy, while the expectations from PhD students have also grown (both regarding their PhD experience and the added value to their personal and professional development).

On top of conducting original research, it is expected that PhD students develop a wide set of skills that reach far beyond scientific expertise, and that can be transferred to their next career opportunity. Therefore, this 3rd Year Transversal Skills training programme has been designed to support the students in this transitional career phase through: formal training sessions onspecific transversal-skills relevant to this transition phase, and providing a space for self-assessment and reflection on their “PhD journey” and on future steps.

Doctoral INPhINIT La Caixa Fellows Annual Gathering

Careers Paths Outside of Academia

This workshop is tailored for the doctoral INPhINIT Fellowship 3d Year Annual Gathering Doctoral INPhINIT Fellowship

Not all PhD students remain in academia after graduation. In this interactive coaching workshop, we will explore alternative careers opportunities where many PhD graduates are able to thrive because of the skills gained throughout their degree. The objective is to raise more awareness over the broad range of jobs that participants may be able to do and identify some field or areas that can be relevant for them.

A Q&A session will take place with some invited speaker guests from different sectors as an opportunity for the participants to ask them questions and find out more about alternative careers. They will share their experience and provide tips for anyone hoping to make the job market transition.

We will also dedicate time for self-reflection to gain clarity and to identify hidden strengths and aspirations to support participants to build their careers with engagement.

ISGlobal Post-Doctoral Retreat

Post-Doc symposium workshop on facing uncertainties in academia

We will be examining how to deal with uncertainty in academia and reflect on the next career steps in a tailored coaching workshop for post-doctoral researchers.

This workshop is tailored for the post-doctoral community of the ISGlobal Institute to manage the uncertainties of the future and make a decision about our career choices that stops us from moving forward.

IRB PhD Retreat

Group Coaching Workshop for the IRB PhD Retreat

Do you find that you are mainly focusing on producing scientific results and getting your work published? Do you have very little time to reflect on your strengths and limitations and explore your long-term careers objectives?

This workshop is tailored for the PhD community of the IRB Barcelona and is focusing on future steps, challenges and strategic thinking to achieve your professional goals for their 4th IRB Barcelona PhD student's retreat

The goal of such workshops is to examine and identify the factors that could contribute to your professional development and career progression.

Group coaching Workshop

Group Coaching Workshops for Entrepreneurs and Freelancers

To offer a stimulating and supportive working environment, PAU coworking has offered to its members the opportunity to participate in tailored coaching workshops.

The goal of such workshops is to examine and identify the factors that could contribute to your professional development and career progression.

Through a process of guided self-reflection, participants will develop essential skills and tools to navigate barriers surrounding career advancement.

Group coaching Workshop

Serendipity mentoring program

Within the Serendipity mentoring program based in Peru, this coaching workshop for Peruvian STEM students will examine and identify the factors that could contribute to their achievement and career progression.

We will dedicate time for self-reflection to identify hidden strengths and aspirations. The intention of the workshop is to develop strategic thinking abilities to support participants at all levels to grow and build their careers with engagement.

Group coaching Workshop

Open Science and entrepreneurship

What could be the new metrics to evaluate researchers through the lens of Open Science and entrepreneurial practises?

Researchers are primarily assessed according to traditional standards (use of impact factor, nb of publications..).

Interesting discussions from different careers advisors from Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), Radboud University, and Københavns Universitet was evaluating where are the current gaps for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in their professional career development.

In this new tailored workshop, we are focusing on how OpenScience practises could be rewarded to evaluate researchers skills and competences!

Group coaching Workshop

BIST Career Week

To offer stimulating and supportive working environment, a tailored coaching workshop for the Barcelona Institutes of Science and technology (BIST) researchers is offered as part of the BIST Career Week. This workshop aims to dedicate time for self-reflection and to identify hidden strengths and aspirations and explore strategies that can support researchers to achieve their professional goals.

The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology is a leading institution of multidisciplinary research encompassing seven Catalan research centres of excellence:

• Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
• Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
• Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)
• Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ)
• Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2)
• Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE)
• Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)

In this Kintsugi interactive coaching session, we will dedicate time for self- reflection to identify hidden strengths and aspirations and explore strategies that can support researchers to achieve their professional goals.

Group coaching Workshop

Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology

To support the researchers from Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology (CABD) the CABD Gender Equality Commission is offering group career coaching workshops.

The intention of this workshop is to examine how participants can use what they have under control to help gain confidence and develop strategic thinking abilities to provide solutions focusing on their career advancement.

At the end of the session, participants will have the opportunity to create a career action plan that can support them to keep moving forward in their career and achieve your goals.

Group coaching Workshop

Mujeres por Africa Leadership Program

To support the African researchers from Mujeres Por Africa selected for the project F.U.E.R.T.E.S. (Femmes Unies Ensemble dans la Recherche, la Technologie, l´Environment et la Science), the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) offers a leadership program with a group coaching workshop entitled "Celebrate your strengths and explore strategies to achieve your profesional goals".

In this interactive coaching workshop, we will dedicate time to identify and celebrate strengths and explore strategies like the SWAT analysis to achieve your professional goals, such as improving leadership skills or developing an entrepreneurial project.

At the end of the session, participants will have the opportunity to take initiatives as leaders by creating a career action plan. The objective is to help them gain confidence with goal settings to keep moving forward in their career and achieve their professional goals.

Group coaching Workshop

IRB Coaching Workshop

We dedicated time to examine PhD student's aspirations, identify and celebrate their strengths and explore strategies that can support them to achieve theirs professional goals. Key objectives:

Raising awareness on your achievements

Beliefs, thoughts and their impact

Restorative Strategies

Catalyst for Change Strategies

Career Action plan

Growth Mindset and SWAT analysis

Emotional responses and transitions

Measures of success and faith

During the session, you reflected on experiences and challenges and explore their impact on your career progression.This workshop was organised for the Institute Recerca Biomedica (IRB) PhDs students community.

Group coaching workshop

PRBB Career Day

This interactive coaching workshop is for the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) community with eight of Spain’s leading institutes in their field:

• Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
• National Centre of Genomic Analysis (CNAG)
• Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM)
• Department of Experimental and Health Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University (DCEXS-UPF)
• Barcelona Insitute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
• Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
• Institute of Applied Radiopharmacy of Barcelona (IRAB)

dedicated to research in the field of life sciences, human health and biomedicine and promoting excellence in research at both the national and international level.

This coaching workshop is designed to identify current challenges you are facing in your academic career and explore their impact on their career progression.

Through a process of guided self-reflection, participants will learn restorative strategies to embrace challenges and change in their professional career. At the end of the session, they will have the opportunity to create a career action plan that can support them to continue in your career.

More details about the event can be found here: Group Career Coaching Workshops with PRBB

Lab retreat

Lab Retreat Group Coaching Workshop

During this workshop, the lab team from the PeterMac Cancer Centre reflected on their experiences and challenges and explore their impact on their career progression.

Key objectives included

1. Raising awareness on your achievements
2. Measures of success and faith
3. Beliefs, thoughts and their impact
4. Identifying aspirations and values
5. Growth Mindset and SWAT analysis
6. Career Action Plan

Some of the feedbacks from participants:

"Very valuable doing coaching with a research scientist who gets all of our issues!"

"Marie tailored the workshop to what we wanted to focus on and being a researcher herself has experienced the challenges we face"

"Highly recommend for career coaching, especially for research scientists"

"New insights into others in the lab"

"Great to do self-reflection and thinking about career goals"

Award

Covid Heroe Award

Very grateful to have been recognised by winning this Covid Heroe Award for offering Kintsugi Coaching services to support several communities during the pandemic. I delivered workshops on navigating uncertainty, transitions through change restoring wellbeing, growth mindset and action plan to develop essential skills to navigate barriers surrounding career advancement and job uncertainty.

Feedbacks included

"Very useful"

"Reassuring to share concerns and discuss strategies on how to cope"

"Structured reflection that lead to action"

It was awarded by the Walter and Eliza Hall Research Institute of Medical Science postdocs community.

Group coaching workshop

Group Career Coaching Workshops,

WiSPP

This interactive coaching workshop is for the Women in Science Parkville Precinct (WiSPP) community with five of Australia’s largest medical research institutes:

• Walter and Eliza Hall Research Institute of Medical Science
• Doherty Institute
• PeterMac Cancer Centre
• The Florey
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute

which work together to advance research and translation by providing an environment that allows more women in science to lead and excel.

Navigating a career in academia is challenging and complex at the best of times; throw a global pandemic into the mix and these challenges are amplified.

These coaching workshops are designed to help you to uncover and celebrate your strengths, and to identify and better understand your challenges. Through a process of guided self-reflection you will develop essential skills and tools to navigate barriers surrounding career advancement at this challenging time.

More details about the event can be found here: Group Career Coaching Workshops with WiSPP

Group coaching workshop

Coaching workshop for Post-docs,

CNAG-CRG

This is an interactive joined coaching workshop for the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the National Centre of Genomic Analysis (CNAG) ranked 5 worldwide excellence journal rate research institutes.

Do you find that you are mainly focusing on producing scientific results and getting your work published? Most of you are facing uncertainty due to failures of experiments and disappointments due to rejection of articles or funding proposal. Your success and career progression are impacted by the level of confidence in your own skills and your beliefs.Do you have very little time to reflect on your strengths and limitations and explore your long-term careers objectives?

In this interactive coaching session, we will examine how you can use what you have under control to help yourself gain confidence and develop strategic thinking abilities to provide solutions focusing on your career advancement.

More details about the event can be found here: Group coaching workshop with CRG-CNAG

Conference Poster

Gender Roles and their Impact in Academia,

EMBL

This EMBL conference Gender Roles and their Impact in Academia focus on exploring our understanding of how gender roles may be shaped by biology and by social structures. Another objective is to assess how the progression of men and women in academic and related careers is influenced by the linkages between biology, society, and gender roles.

At present not only are workplace gender action plans being put in place to address the under-representation of women in research by supporting and advancing women’s careers through positive working environments and conditions, also initiatives exposing of women as role models are helping by significantly reducing the prevalence of stereotypes associated with jobs in science, for both women and men. While acknowledging the importance of these factors, we have been examining how to promote gender equality by identifying other individual factors that could contribute to women’s participation, achievement and progression.

As part of the Accelerated Leadership Program (WALPP MEL183) organised by Women & Leadership Australia, I conducted an international survey that I presented in a poster that reveals how academics are affected by theirs and others’ beliefs about their own confidence in their skills and abilities. Identifying such beliefs could contribute to academic success and career progression across all gender.

Group coaching workshop

Coaching workshop for international expatriates,

WiSPP

This interactive coaching workshop is for the Women in Science Parkville Precinct (WiSPP) community with five of Australia’s largest medical research institutes:

• Walter and Eliza Hall Research Institute of Medical Science
• Doherty Institute
• PeterMac Cancer Centre
• The Florey
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute

which work together to advance research and translation by providing an environment that allows more women in science to lead and excel.

Over the past three months, we have all faced unprecedented times of uncertainty but there are many unique challenges for international expatriates in our community. Being far from loved ones right now has been particularly challenging and some of you may also be concerned about the impacts on their short-term and long-term professional career.

This online workshop is designed to support international expatriates in our academic community and will enable you to identify strategies and resources to overcome the challenges during COVID-19. In this interactive coaching session, we will explore the professional and personal impacts that are occurring for you due to the pandemic, reflect on your own challenges and identify the resources you can use to manage those challenges and keep moving forward.

More details about the event can be found here: Group coaching workshop with WiSPP

Group coaching workshop

Strategies and resources to overcome the profesional challenges of COVID-19,

Gals Australia

In this interactive coaching workshop with the amazing community of Gals Australia we will explore how you can identify the professional implications that are occurring for you due to the pandemic and examine how you can help yourself to balance your priorities in these challenging times, to keep moving forward step by step.

More details about the event can be found here: Group coaching workshop with Gals Australia

Selected to participate in the

Impactful Innovator Entrepreneurship program,

Bright Arena

Thrilled to have been selected to participate in the Impactful Innovator Program for my Kintsugi Coaching business in a project supported by Bright Arena team and the Business Development team of the Walter and Eliza Hall Research Institute of Medical Sciencedesigned to help entrepreneurs develop the skills and strategies required to build towards impact!! So excited to participated in this wonderful program 🤓