Post- Postgraduate Research Journey Panel

Post- Postgraduate Research Journey Panel

An inter-disciplinary alumni panel to share advice on what to do after your PhD!!

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About this event

Are you wondering what to do after a PhD?!?
Of course, you are!!
After two successful events last semester, the much awaited Post PGR Journey Panel is here!!

Research Bow brings to you yet another interactive event, and this time we are addressing your questions about what to do after a PhD. We have invited prolific alumni from the School of Health in Social Science, who successfully finished an arduous PhD journey, and are working within different sectors. They represent different departments of the school, and are willing to share their experiences to the wider student body within the school.

This event will be held online on the 22nd of November, 2021 between 3:00pm-4:30pm (GMT-UK Time), and caters to all matriculated masters and PhD students at the School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh. This event will be both synchronous and asynchronous. You will also be given an opportunity to post questions for the panel before the event, through a Padlet link which will be sent to you via the confirmation email on signing up. And of course, you can ask questions live!

Our panellists with give a small introduction about themselves, their PhD highs and lows, and where they currently are!

Panellists:

• Dr. Erifili Efthymiadou (She/Her)- Erifili is currently a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton, London, where she lectures on areas of mental health, developmental psychology, and research methods and statistics. In addition to teaching, she supervises undergraduate and postgraduate research projects, and is a member of the ethics review committee for the Department of Psychology at the University of Roehampton. She completed her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, in September 2019. As a PhD student, she held various positions like postgraduate tutor, research assistant, and was also a Postgraduate Student Representative. She was also a Data Protection Assistant-Intern at the Information Services, L&UC, Library Research Support at the University. You can connect with her on Twitter: @EErifili.
• Dr. Divya Sivaramakrishnan (She/Her)- Divya is a Chancellor's Fellow with the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy. She is a mixed methods researcher with experience in intervention development. Her research interests include development and evaluation of public health interventions, healthy ageing, and physical activity and sedentary behaviour across varied populations. Divya was also a postdoctoral researcher on the 'Stand Up for Health' project, which aimed to reduce sedentary behaviour in contact centres. She has completed her PhD at the Physical Activity for Health Centre, University of Edinburgh on developing a yoga intervention for older adults. She has held various responsibilities like Research Impact Tracking Intern, Impact Communications Intern, and Research Assistant for SHaRE, along with teaching several courses in different departments at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a yoga teacher. Her Twitter handle is @DivyaSivaramak.
• Dr. Gearóid Brennan (He/Him)- Gearóid is a clinical academic mental health nurse. He works part-time as lecturer at the University of Stirling, and part-time as a nurse specialist in NHS Lothian. He undertook a qualitative PhD focussing on the role of mental health nurses in physical healthcare for people with serious mental health illness. You can follow him on Twitter at @gearoidbrennan.

A few words about Research Bow:

Research Bow was launched in 2019 with the vision to create a platform to share advice, experiences and news with our community of postgraduate research students in the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. Since then, Research Bow has experienced steady growth, publishing a new blog each week with the help of a core editorial PGR team and lots of engaging contributors across the School. We are always looking for more contributors to get involved, so if you would like to learn more about it or brainstorm ideas with our editorial team you are more than welcome to contact us at:

[email protected]

This project is part of an interactive workshop series supported by alumni and friends of the University of Edinburgh through the Student Experience Grants scheme.