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Career Sessions podcast aims to get to the crux of careers, from those people who are already in them. Dr Champion and Dr Agnew host a friendly and fun chat with successful Australians who reflect on their path to their current role, reporting on the valuable lessons they have learned through work and study and how much of an influence their study has had on their current role.
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Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
"I think I've always been attracted to learning. I think that's one thing I have learned about myself is that I just enjoy learning and I think, if you stop learning, that is the end of growth. Even if you are stationary because of what you know, you are going backwards because the world is progressing. You have got to at least learn enough to keep up. And so, I think I would always be learning. I don’t know what that would be. I don’t know if science necessarily would attract me back to it, that was my only thing. But I certainly feel like science or music? Those were the two things. So, if I didn't do science, I reckon I'd be a happy but struggling musician...."
In this Career Session, Dr Andy Stapleton talks to us about why he decided to undertake his PhD in Australia (hint, it was much easier than applying for any other visas); why it took so long for him to quit academia and set up as his own boss; and the importance of science communicating, and how universities can do better at promoting the research going on in their institutions.
What is the title of your PhD: Nanoparticle Based Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Where did you complete your PhD: Newcastle University, NSW
What year did you graduate: 2011
What undergraduate degree/s have you completed: MChem
What is your job title, today: Founder of verbalize.science
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-j-stapleton/
TedXFlinders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXj8qHxS0A0
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