Danielle White
Founder and Director at Periscope Programmes LtdThe PhD is a hidden superpower, not a ball and chain.
The PhD is a hidden superpower, not a ball and chain.
Every post/job I have completed has been a learning curve. Without the experiences gained from the different positions, I would not be where I am today
The skills you have are highly valued, but a positive can-do attitude is just as important.
If you want to make the transition, do a lot of soul searching to figure out which skills you have that are marketable and if they are sufficient to reach your goal
I wish I had known how many other people leave academia and are happy with their decision.
I felt it offered a perfect way to combine my skills – science and writing. Translating complex topics into clear, compelling storytelling really appealed to me as it had been how I approached writing my thesis.
I had heard that industrial science can be quite restrictive, that you don’t have the freedom to follow interesting science as you do in academia. It may be that I have been lucky in my role, but I have had quite a lot of freedom to investigate what I believe may be interesting biology.