{"id":1303,"date":"2022-12-12T16:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2022-12-12T16:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T16:22:33","slug":"what-do-researchers-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/2022\/12\/12\/what-do-researchers-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What do researchers do ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vitae recently published the latest edition in the &#8216;What do Researchers do ?&#8217; series, exploring the destinations and career paths of doctoral graduates. These latest finding have been analysed from the HESA &#8216;Graduate Outcomes&#8217; data from 2018-19 doctoral graduates. You can read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitae.ac.uk\/events\/vitae-international-researcher-development-conference-2022\/vitae-zone-2022\/wdrd-2022-report.pdf\">summary slides on the Vitae website<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitae.ac.uk\/events\/what-do-researchers-do-2022\">watch recordings of a recent event<\/a> presenting the data and a panel Q&amp;A  (University login required).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information available includes employment type by discipline, earnings, perceived value of the doctorate and analysis of outcomes for different groups. Some interesting findings include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>About half of international doctoral graduates in full-time work remained in the UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>50% of social sciences doctoral graduates were employed in HE teaching, compared with 28% of arts and humanities graduates and 8% of physical science and engineering graduates. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>37% of biological science graduates were employed in HE research positions, compared to 18% of social scientists and 17% of arts and humanities graduates. Biological science graduates were also the most likely to be working in research outside HE (20%).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>70% of all doctoral graduates reported using research skills in their role and over 60% either conducted or interpreted \/evaluated research. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to explore your career options inside and outside of academia, why not take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/research\/graduate-school\/careers\/\">careers section<\/a> of the York Graduate Research School website ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitae recently published the latest edition in the &#8216;What do Researchers do ?&#8217; series, exploring the destinations and career paths of doctoral graduates. These latest finding have been analysed from the HESA &#8216;Graduate Outcomes&#8217; data from 2018-19 doctoral graduates. You can read summary slides on the Vitae website and\/or watch recordings of a recent event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/2022\/12\/12\/what-do-researchers-do\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What do researchers do ?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[457,456,454,455,453],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-career-paths-of-doctoral-graduates","tag-careers-with-a-phd","tag-phd-destinations","tag-researcher-destinations","tag-what-do-researchers-do"],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","custom_fields":{"_jetpack_related_posts_cache":["a:1:{s:32:\"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb\";a:2:{s:7:\"expires\";i:1791719059;s:7:\"payload\";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:417;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:669;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:\"id\";i:884;}}}}"],"_edit_lock":["1670862888:173"],"_last_editor_used_jetpack":["block-editor"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/research-student-community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}