For all current students
Careers advice
Free careers advice, guidance and information is offered to all current ICR students by The Careers Group, which is the University of London's higher education careers service. ICR students are also permitted to continue to receive advice for up to one year after they finish their studies.
The Careers Group professional careers consultants provide a range of services to students, including onsite workshops and webinars on CV preparation, interview skills, and employment search techniques including the use of LinkedIn. They also offer a special email advice service for ICR students, as well as Skype consultations with advisors.
The careers sessions are often co-delivered by ICR faculty and members of the Learning and Development Team, and the consultants themselves have backgrounds in scientific research. This ensures the support provided is highly relevant and of maximum benefit. Individual, confidential appointments with a careers adviser are also available.
The ICR acknowledges the challenge involved in successfully navigating an academic career path and aims to support this area as effectively as possible. Sessions on obtaining fellowship funding, finding the right post-doc position, preparing for academic interviews and writing research for publication are popular sessions run on a regular basis.
Careers events
Careers events are also provided. The annual student conference is arranged for students by students and normally includes a variety of workshops and a career speed networking session with the opportunity to meet with a wide range of science career professionals both inside and outside academia.
In addition, a biennial research careers conference is provided for third and fouth year students and post-doctoral researchers, featuring speakers with a range of career backgrounds.
Collaborating with industry
The ICR has close links and collaborations with industry through our teams in the Drug Development Unit, and many of our Faculty have backgrounds in industry themselves.
Learning and Development, together with the ICR’s highly experienced Enterprise Unit, provides a workshop on identifying and managing research collaborations, with input from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Individual research sections also invite speakers from industry to talk about possible career paths.