Careers Month

During June 2026, the Institute for Academic Development Research Staff Career Consultants provide dedicated careers support each week.

Our careers workshops are open to Research staff on fixed term contracts (research assistants and associates, post-docs, and research fellows) and academic teaching staff on fixed term contracts (teaching assistants and teaching fellows). We also support academic staff on open ended contracts with review dates (OERD), this does not include academic staff on open-ended lecturing contracts.

Careers month was set up to complement our core careers programme, by providing dedicated careers support on popular topics. The month included weekly briefing sessions, quick career 1:1 queries and blog posts. 

*PhD Horizons Conference, Wednesday 17th June 2026 - 12:30-18:00 -  PhD Horizons is the annual Careers Service event which focuses on careers for PhD holders - it's not just for PhD students!  Panel sessions have ranged from Policy to Heritage and Life Sciences to Tech and Data.  This one day conference will help you think broadly about career options beyond academia.  Find out more about this year's programme on the PhD Horizons page - which also has links to previous years' recordings of panel sessions.

• Book onto a briefing session, the PhD Horizons Conference or book a quick queries consultation
• We will be blogging each week from blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4researchers. Subscribe to our blog to ensure you are notified of news and kept up to date
• Follow us on LinkedIn, to be kept up to date with news: University of Edinburgh Research Staff Careers Support

• IAD Research Staff Careers Support
• Career Development Consultations
• 10 Days Professional Development
• Career Blogs
• Diverse Career Path Blogs
• Narrative CVs
• CMVM Careers Beyond Academia Series

This activity has been developed by The Institute for Academic Development to improve the University of Edinburgh research cultures as part of the University's research cultures action plan.