As we were building the UP Doctoral Careers resource centre, we felt that an important part of the puzzle was missing: the connection between U.Porto’s PhD candidates, recent PhD holders and other important stakeholders. With this aim, emerges this Doctoral Careers Community specially planned to (re)connect you and your peers that can be located in different professional contexts, cities or perhaps countries.
Have you thought about what other PhD candidates are doing in their research work? And what about where is that PhD holder that you haven’t seen around your faculty? Wonder what she/he might be working on?
This group might be the place to (re)connect and talk about the next steps of your career, or even to satisfy the curiosity to see where in the world are U.Porto’s PhD candidates and PhD holders.
JOINT THIS COMMUNITY!
Meet your peers through this network and be updated about the latest PhD and career related topics!
Introducing the "PhD Listening Tour: Get Together and Share" sessions, designed specifically to address your thoughts, ideas, aspirations and doubts on your career development. These sessions provide a platform for open dialogue about the challenges, achievements, and needs encountered throughout your PhD journey and career path.
With a focus on promoting career development and fostering a stronger sense of belonging within the doctoral community, these informal, small-group conversations are an opportunity to talk to U.Porto’s PhD holders that can provide valuable insights into the experiences and challenges faced when they started their careers.
Every new session is promoted throughout our social media, but also by email, so stay tuned. Check out the video below and the news we have about the PhD Listening Tour.
Read here the news about the sharing meetings between doctoral students promoted by U.Porto.
The University of Porto offers access to an innovative platform for connecting with the U.Porto community - Connecting U.Porto, which aims to create a wide network of information and contacts between U.Porto graduates, students, Professors and technicians. But that is not all! Within Connecting, we have created a Career Community Group - UP Doctoral Career Community -, where you can reach out to your peers, get in touch for spontaneous mentorships, promote events and access exclusive career opportunities (jobs, traineeships, visits to companies and meetings with employers, open days opportunities, collaborations with employers and other organisations, and son on). Register here and find out more about these career opportunities here.
UP Doctoral Careers is an initiative stemming from the PhD Career Design project, initiated in 2021. It involved a technical team comprising members from various units within the University of Porto, including the Talent and Career Centre, Work Psychology Consulting Service, FEUPs Talent Unit, ICBAS Student Support, Employability and Alumni Office, I3S, and the Teaching and Learning Laboratory. Additionally, it was supported by the Portuguese funding "Skills for a Next Generation U.Porto" (Upskilling U.Porto) under POCH-I2-2022-01 Post Covid Competition - Skills for the Future in Higher Education”. Now, it is run by contributions from representatives of U.Porto's Organic Units, Research Centers, PhD candidates, holders, advisors, course directors, companies, and institutions. Furthermore, it is supported by the EUGLOH network and the DocTalent4EU project.
