Navigating biomedical and healthcare science careers (webinar)
A panel discussion hosted by the University of Cambridge, featuring academic and industry experts discussing career pathways, challenges, and opportunities in biomedical and healthcare science.
In this session we will invite academic and industry experts to discuss their career paths and answer questions from participants about navigating key challenges in a biomedical or healthcare science career.
Learning outcomes:
-How to find opportunities in a competitive landscape where funding is scarce
-How to ensure your input is adequately credited in a competitive ecosystem
-How to manage rejection with applications for grants and professional roles
-How to cope with the precarity of fixed term contracts
-Managing clinical and academic commitments (for clinically qualified researchers)
-For those with teaching commitments, how to protect time for research
-Career flexibility with family commitments/caring responsibilities
-Preventing “burnout” with heavy workloads/submission deadlines etc
-What more experienced/advanced researchers can do to better support early career researchers
-Which skills are most relevant for industry opportunities
-How you can translate skills in academic research/healthcare to roles in industry
-What is the process for founding a company? How do you set one up? How do you find funding opportunities? How do you build a team?
-What more can academics do to forge more productive collaboration with industry?
Target audience:
– Undergraduate, Master’s and PhD students in biomedical and healthcare disciplines
– Early career researchers (research assistants/postdocs)
– Healthcare professionals in undergraduate or postgraduate training
– Supervisors of students and postgraduate researchers/clinical trainees
However, this list is not exhaustive or exclusive – whether you are a first year undergraduate or emeritus professor, ALL are welcome!
Register online.
