From PhD to Professional: Moving into the Workforce

12/08/22 • 39 min

This episode features a chorus of BU graduate school alumni who share how they leverage skills from graduate school to find success in their post-graduate careers. Guests represent sectors ranging from consulting to public history and from arts administration to science writing. They bring varied experience levels, ranging from newly-minted PhDs who recently entered the workforce to mid-career and recently retired professionals. In a culmination of our season’s focus on management and leadership, they touch on management skills, transitions, and the qualities of good leadership.

Guests include: Bridget Muckian, Marty Blatt, Chenguang Peng, Rebekah Beaulieu,

Kelsey Gustin, Deboki Chakravarti

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Guests include: Bridget Muckian, Marty Blatt, Chenguang Peng, Rebekah Beaulieu,

Kelsey Gustin, Deboki Chakravarti

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In this episode, the hosts talk with Dr. Joyce Wong about an approach to leadership, which foregrounds collaboration, power, critical self awareness, and relationships. How does identity intersect with approaches to leadership? Especially for minoritized groups such as women and BIPOC working in STEM? And, how is the pandemic affecting leadership in those spaces?

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Introducing Your New Hosts for Season 9 - Tachira and Grace

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In this episode, we will be meeting our new hosts for Season 9 of Vitamin PhD, Tachira Pichardo and Grace McGowan. They will be speaking with Aly and Emma, the season 8 hosts, about what their season about self awareness entails and who they will be speaking with. They also discuss their own PhD experiences in regards to how it pertains to self-awareness, along with management and leadership.