Anne Cameron
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Anne CameronOctober 11, 2021
How I got to Careers: Anne Cameron
As we talk to a lot of students who are concerned about making the wrong decision or not getting into their 'dream job' immediately after graduating, we wanted to share some of our own careers stories from inside the Careers...
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Anne CameronOctober 4, 2021
Managing your career in the second year of your doctorate
Managing your career in the second year of your doctorateUsually at this time of year I write a blog post on how to get started with planning your career in the first year of your PhD. This year I thought...
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Anne CameronAugust 13, 2021
Academic job interviews - quick tips
As I’m spending quite a bit of time at the moment helping our research staff to prepare for lectureship interviews, I thought I’d share a few of the things I’m saying most often about how to prepare and how to...
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Anne CameronJuly 30, 2021
Applying for academic jobs - what to ask a contact for informal enquiries
The inspiration for this post came from a session I participated in yesterday as part of Bath’s Academic Career Academy, which focussed on academic job applications and interviews. One of the topics we discussed was whether to contact a recruiting...
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Anne CameronMay 4, 2021
Selling your experience in academic job applications - research
This post was written jointly with Dr Amy Birch, Researcher Development Manager at the University of Bath. The next instalment of our mini-series on selling your experience in academic job applications. Selling your research experience, potential and future plans effectively...
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Anne CameronApril 13, 2021
Selling your teaching experience in academic job applications
As the ‘peak’ season for applying for jobs in academia is fast approaching, we thought the time was ripe for a little mini-series on selling your experience in academic job applications. We’re starting today with selling your teaching experience; upcoming...
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Anne CameronDecember 17, 2020
Student perspective: Doing a PhD internship in quantitative finance
Anna Senkevich, a doctoral graduate from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistical Applied Mathematics (SAMBa), talks about her experience of doing a quantitative finance internship and how it was similar and different to doctoral research Two years ago, I...
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Anne CameronDecember 4, 2020
What to do when you don't know what to do
'I don't know what I want to do' is possibly one of the most frequent things careers advisers hear, and it's been in my mind for a while to write a blog post addressing this. The first step towards moving...
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Anne CameronOctober 7, 2020
Welcome to new doctoral students
If you're currently starting out on a doctoral programme, you've probably got lots of things to think about: possibly getting used to a new environment, meeting supervisors and research groups, narrowing down research questions etc. But at the start of...
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Anne CameronSeptember 24, 2020
Postdoc Appreciation Week: Look for potential, rather than looking for track record
As part of our blog series celebrating Postdoc Appreciation Week, Dr Amy Birch, Researcher Development Manager at the University of Bath, has written a guest blog post with her reflections on Vitae Connections Week 2020 A key theme in researcher...