New year, new career? Options for academics post PhD

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Shedding light on the variety of career opportunities available to PhD students and early career researchers interested in ageing. 


This event, hosted by the <a href="https://www.britishgerontology.org/emerging-researchers-in-ageing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">British Society of Gerontology</a> and <a href="https://www.zinc.vc/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Zinc</a>, will shed light on the variety of career opportunities available to PhD students and early career researchers interested in ageing. This is an exciting opportunity to learn more about the career paths of a dynamic panel of speakers, working in diverse areas from government and think tanks to charity and start-up incubators.If you’re mid-PhD, finished your PhD, an early career researcher or just looking for your next opportunity, come along and find the answers to your career related questions.ChairThe panel discussion will be chaired by<a href="https://www.britishgerontology.org/emerging-researchers-in-ageing/era-committee" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Dr Matthew Lariviere</a>, Chair of Emerging Researchers in Ageing Group (ERA). Matthew is a social anthropologist who explores pasts, presents and futures of ageing and care with a particular emphasis on how digital technology mediates our experiences and imaginaries of these phenomena. He is Chair of the British Society of Gerontology’s Emerging Researchers in Ageing. From January 2021, he will join the University of Bristol as a Lecturer in Social Policy.Panelists<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-benzimra-687a10111/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alison Benzimra</a>, Foundation Manager at The Whiteley Foundation for Ageing Well. Alison&#x27;s career started as a social entrepreneur in healthy ageing. She has extensive experience in physical, social and financial well-being issues in later life and currently manages the Whiteley Foundation for Ageing Well. <a href="https://ilcuk.org.uk/our-people/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Brian Beach</a>, Senior Research Fellow at the International Longevity Centre, joined ILC in June 2013. In this role, he has conducted research on a range of topics related to population ageing, with his main expertise on employment in later life. He has worked on this subject and the changing nature of retirement for over 14 years in a career that has featured giving evidence to the UK Parliament, organising dialogues in Europe, Asia, and North America, and collaborating with the United Nations Programme on Ageing.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-shakespeare/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tim Shakespeare</a>, Research &amp; Innovation Design Manager at Zinc, completed a PhD and then post-doctoral fellowship on cognition and neuroimaging in a rare form of dementia. During this time he created &#x27;The Many Faces of Dementia&#x27; online course, reaching thousands of learners. He worked at Alzheimer’s Society, first in science communication and then in innovation, co-designing new products and services for people affected by dementia. Most recently he produced Alzheimer’s Society’s hard-hitting report on the impact of COVID-19, before joining Zinc In November 2020.<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadine-thomas-5b714382/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nadine Thomas</a>, Research Officer at the Scottish Government, joined the Government Social Research profession after finishing her PhD in 2019 at the University of Stirling on unpaid carers’ preferences to support. She currently works in the &#x27;covid analytical hub&#x27; monitoring public attitudes to the Coronavirus pandemic, and the impacts of Covid-19 on wellbeing.

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