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There is a major demand for people with scientific training in a wide range of professions based on and maintaining relations with science. However, there is a lack of good first-hand information about alternative career paths to research. From entrepreneurship, industry and the media to government, public relations, activism and teaching, this is a readable guide to science based skills, lifestyles and career paths. The ever-narrowing pyramid of opportunities within an academic career structure, or the prospect of a life in the laboratory losing its attraction, mean that many who trained in science and engineering now look for alternative careers. Thirty role models who began by studying many different disciplines give personal guidance for graduates, postgraduates and early-career scientists in the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering. This book is an entertaining resource for ideas about, and directions into, the many fields which they may not be aware of or may not have considered.

Table of Contents:

• What type of scientist are you? / Nalayini Thambar and Clare Jones
• Researching my career: from science to career education / Lori Conlan
• Career enlightenment for the 21st century / Stephen Isherwood
• Doctoral graduates in policy and advocacy / Adam Wright
• Opportunities for entrepreneurial scientists and engineers in the post-genomic era / Darrin M. Disley
• From monkeys to medicines and beyond: navigating careers in industry and academia / Jackie Hunter
• Lessons from evolution on how to build a business / Jonathan Milner
• Entrepreneurship, management, public relations and consulting / Nick Scott-Ram
• From science to engineering and business: the converging stories of three friends / Ermeena Malik
• From lab bench to boardroom: the patent attorney's tale / Robert Stephen
• From molecular biology to GMO regulation and policy / Delphine Carron
• Rebel with a cause? From physics to activism / Philip Webber
• Science public relations: it needs to be in your genes / Richard Hayhurst
• From rock pools to whitehall / Miles Parker
• Science for global good: a polymath's approach / Jasdeep Dandhu
• Skills, networks and luck / David Cleevely
• Politics and policy / Julian Huppert
• The wonderful world of reporting, or the marsupial mole revisited / Tim Radford
• Reflections of a thinking pinball: the surprises, challenges and rewards of a career in radio / Peter Evans
• From science to storytelling / Madhumita Murgia

• Propelled by science / Vivienne Parry
• A career in science radio and podcasting / Chris Smith and Kat Arney
• What to do when you don't know what you're doing: or, my first twenty-five years in science communication / John Durant
• A butterfly career in science and beyond to public engagement / Nicola Buckley
• A lifetime's fun and interest with teaching and allied matters / Ian Harvey
• In search of the ethical path / Stuart Parkinson
• Environmental policy, politics and science: not always an easy ride / Julie Hill.

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Contributors:

Bennett, David J. , editor

Jennings, Richard C. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Successful careers beyond the lab (Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017 — ISBN 9781107161054; LCCN 2016042159; OCLC Number 959667376)

Subjects:

Science — Vocational guidance

Science — Vocational guidance — Great Britain

Science

Great Britain

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 345 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

Q147 .B455 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781316676103 (electronic bk.)
1316676102 (electronic bk.)
9781107161054 (hardback, alk. paper) [Invalid]
1107161053 (hardback, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9781316613795 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

990033515