Careers of STFC-funded PhD students

It is important for us to understand the impact of the postgraduate training that we fund in terms of the careers followed by our former students and the skills they developed during their PhDs. Information on the careers followed by previous PhD graduates is also useful to current students when planning the next step after their PhD.

In 2009 we commissioned DTZ to find out about the career paths of students whose funding ended 6 to 9 years earlier and how useful their PhD training had been. Case study material was also collected from former students who were then 12 to 14 years into their post-PhD careers.

|Delivering World Class Skills: Impact of STFC-funded Postgraduate Training (PDF-223KB) (link opens in a new window) (Summary report - 2009)
|Early career profiles of STFC PhD students (PDF-254KB) (link opens in a new window) (2009)
|Fourteen years after: Career profiles of STFC PhD students (PDF-405KB) (link opens in a new window) (2009)
|A Study of the Career Paths of PPARC/STFC Funded PhD Students (PDF-2.2MB) (PDF - link opens in a new window) (Full report - 2009)
2003 Career Path survey (link opens in a new window) (2003)