The UNIque Guide for women.
Are you ready to confidently embrace your career in research and beyond?
If you are a woman in research and have ever wondered what’s next in your career, then this book is for you! Whether you are certain that you want to stay in academia, or ready to leave, or somewhere between these two points, the UNIque Guide for Women gives you amazing practical bite-sized advice that will help you excel in your own unique way. I guarantee that this is a book you will return to again and again throughout your career!
The early career research stage is tough. Interesting, intellectually challenging, pushing back frontiers of knowledge, working with talented people from around the world – all fantastic things.
But have you ever …
- Wondered what on earth the next career step is going to be?
- Felt surrounded by researchers who are brighter and more together than you?
- Felt overwhelmed by the sheer volume of ‘stuff’ you are supposed to do as a researcher?
- Looked at those ‘high ups’ in your institution and wondered where the women are?
- Tried to explain to your parents that postdocs seldom get Nobel prizes? (just me then?)
Time to embrace the UNIque you and
- Step back to understand your career options in and out of the university sector
- Explore what is important to you so decisions are based on your values
- Get clear no-nonsense advice to help you get that next position
- Learn tools to help you set goals and realise them
Dr Emma Williams is on a mission to enable researchers to take the next career step positively and proactively. She has been there worn the lab coat and scrubs as a physics ugrad, PhD student and MRI postdoc.
Harnessing her 30+ years in and around Higher Education – from physicist to training business owner – she speaks, writes and trains on all things researcher development.
Her favourite soapboxes include women’s development in Universities and encouraging researchers to investigate all things enterprising.
Her third book Leaving Academia: Ditch the Blanket, Take the Skills will be out in May 2024 following on from What Every Postdoc Needs to Know (2017) and The UNIque Guide for Women: Confidently Embracing Your Career in Research And Beyond (2023).
She brings creativity, empathy and usually a large coffee to her work.
As a final year PhD student with several career changes already under my belt, this book was a blessing! Emma’s wisdom and encouragement leap off the page thanks to her humour plus it is brilliantly informative and practical. I am working my way through it so I can chart my next steps and already know some postdocs I will send it to. I can hear Emma cheering us all on!
This book has been a long time coming and, for many, has arrived just in time. Emma’s groundbreaking and powerful UNIque programme set the stage for women researchers career development, and this book allows the ideas to go further and – rightly – reach more people. If you are a woman researcher (and even if you’re not) navigating the early career phase of your professional life, this book is written with you – yes, YOU – in mind.
As a researcher, you are knee-deep in experience, expertise, and strengths. The UNIque Guide for Women shows you a myriad of ways you can bend down and pick it up. You have more choices, more power, and more autonomy than you may realise
Wake up and smell Emma’s coffee! This down to earth book with touches of humour will inspire you. Emma always said when she was little “I’ll do it by my own”. She has. You can too! You only regret the things you didn’t do
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