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Dr Rocco Coppejans:
Personal experiences of leaving academia & what R&IS can do for you
Wednesday 29th May at 12:30-14:00 (lunch available from 12:15) MOAC Seminar Room, Senate House
Given that there are only about 1 faculty positions for every 10 PhDs awarded, most PhDs will have to leave the field. In the first part of the talk I will recount my personal experience with getting a PhD, switching academic fields, leaving academia, the two body problem and living in 4 countries. I will try to give some practical and useful advice on how to negotiate this process. In the second part I will discuss what Warwick Research & Impact Services can do for you. I will specially focus on the to support we offer for you to choose postdoc funding and grants that you can apply for, costing, preparing and submitting said applications. I will also discuss our work drafting and negotiating research contracts including contracts for industry partners to part or fully fund postdoc and PhD positions, material exchange, secondments etc.
Biography:
Rocco got his BSc Physics and MSc Astrophysics and Space Science in South Africa before moving to do his PhD in Astrophysics in the Netherlands. After that he was a postdoc for 5 years in the USA working on instrumentation and serving as a project manager. Rocco moved to the UK at the end of 2021 where first work as a Contracts Officer at the University of Oxford before starting his current role as a Research Support Officer in Research & Impact Service at Warwick 6 months ago.
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