Resources for PhD researchers

There are many websites that PhD researchers may find useful.

General

• Prospects - A comprehensive website for UK graduates that includes a specific section for PhD researchers
• Vitae - A professional development site for doctoral researchers with detailed careers advice, including publications with career profiles and destinations of PhD students
• Shinton Consulting - Specialist information for research students and academic researchers from a careers adviser and former contract researcher, including advice and comprehensive resources

Academic vacancies

• PhD Jobs - A commercial website that caters for recently qualified PhD researchers. Candidates can apply online for jobs inside and outside academia and/or register for notification of relevant vacancies
• Next wave - Advice, articles and vacancies for researchers in the sciences. Based in the US, but with a growing UK focus
• Social Research Association - A forum for people working in social research. Includes sections on careers in research and situations vacant
• Beyond the PhD - A useful career resource for arts and humanities PhD researchers, containing relevant audio and video material

Academic-related vacancies

• jobs.ac.uk - Advertises academic and non-academic vacancies in universities, colleges, research institutions, the commercial and public sectors, schools and charities
• The Times Higher Education Supplement -Includes articles about higher education, and also lists job vacancies in the HE sector
• The Chronicle of Higher Education - The US version of the Times Higher Education Supplement. In addition to US academic job vacancies there are also sections on job search skills.