Imagining life beyond the PhD: Careers Workshop for PhD Candidates

Join us for a lively lunchtime panel and Q and A featuring four presenters who’ve worked in academia, government, not-for-profits, policy, and cultural and museum sectors. Hear real life stories and practical tips about diverse career pathways—spanning climate, energy, digital cities and communities, and urban farming and local food systems—and discover strategies to shape your future beyond the PhD. 

This session is catered.

Facilitators

Kelly Donati is a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at RMIT University and co-founder of Sustain: The Australian Food Network. Her research focused on community food infrastructure.

Kat Lucas-Healey has a PhD in Architectural Science and has worked in energy and sustainability for 20 years spanning advocacy, research, policy and practice.

Sarah Barns is Senior Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow based at the Centre for Urban Research. Sarah’s career has operated at the intersection of digital innovation, placemaking and urban design for over 20 years. She is co-founder of the public space media platform Storybox.co, a Founder of experience design practice Studio ESEM and leading researcher in the field of platform urbanism.

Victor Albert is trained as an ethnographer and has a PhD from La Trobe University in Political Anthropology. Victor has conducted policy-related research in Australia, Brazil and Russia, and has worked in academia and local and federal government.