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MEDIA RELEASE: CAPA welcomes PhD career pathways survey

9 Apr 18

MEDIA RELEASE: CAPA welcomes PhD career pathways survey

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) is pleased to hear of the announcement of the ‘Understanding PhD Career Pathways’ project to be conducted by the Group of Eight (Go8) universities.

The Go8’s project intends to chart PhD career outcomes by surveying those who are three, five, and fifteen years out from PhD completion.

Doctoral students are a diverse group, with different expectations and reasons for undertaking the PhD. We are hopeful that the Go8 project will reflect this diversity and illuminate the long-term outcomes of completing doctoral study.

We look forward to the existence of rich data on PhD career outcomes, which may be useful to prospective students, as well as to current students considering career paths to choose post-graduation.

“Students who finish a PhD project have demonstrated high-level transferable skills in critical thinking, project management, communication, problem solving, and self-discipline,” says CAPA National President Natasha Abrahams. “We are very interested to see how the Australian PhD experience maps on to career outcomes.”

For further comment:
CAPA National President
Natasha Abrahams
E: president@capa.edu.au
P: 0430 076 993