20 min
So, what's next after you graduate?: A talk with Dr. Ashley White SciPol Connect
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- Governo
Grad students in hard sciences are often made to believe that their career options post-graduation are limited to research positions in academia, industry, or national labs. However, the skills one develops during a PhD program are transferable to more job types and settings than expected. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Ashley White, who currently works at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as both the Director of Communications for the Advanced Light Source and the Head of Strategic Development for the Energy Sciences Area. She discusses her non-traditional career path, difficult decisions she has had to make, and how the skills she has learned along the way make her uniquely qualified in her current job. We'll talk about the importance of her role at a national lab and a little bit about what kind of research actually goes on at LBNL.
Guest: Ashley White; Host: Claire Rodman; Reporter: Angela Cleri: Produced by: Angela Cleri and Jeremy Sutherland; Music: Smartphone Zombie by Platinum Butterfly (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license.
Grad students in hard sciences are often made to believe that their career options post-graduation are limited to research positions in academia, industry, or national labs. However, the skills one develops during a PhD program are transferable to more job types and settings than expected. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Ashley White, who currently works at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as both the Director of Communications for the Advanced Light Source and the Head of Strategic Development for the Energy Sciences Area. She discusses her non-traditional career path, difficult decisions she has had to make, and how the skills she has learned along the way make her uniquely qualified in her current job. We'll talk about the importance of her role at a national lab and a little bit about what kind of research actually goes on at LBNL.
Guest: Ashley White; Host: Claire Rodman; Reporter: Angela Cleri: Produced by: Angela Cleri and Jeremy Sutherland; Music: Smartphone Zombie by Platinum Butterfly (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license.
20 min