Our 1st Career Development Day of 2011 will be held on Monday 28 February. Speakers included: Professor  Sir Robin Murray, who will focus on careers in academia; Professor Richard Brown, who will talk about PhD programmes at the IoP; Dr Georgina Hosang a postdoc from the SGDP- Phd Programme will tell students about the PhD experience and Karen Langridge is discussing the practicalities of PhD applications. Mr Terry Jones a KcL career advisor will discuss  PhD applications and interviews. 

On 9th June we are delighted to have a speaker who came to the IoP as an overseas MSc Student and is now doing her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry. She will talk to students about her move from the MSc to a PhD and also offer advice to students interesting in pursing a similar career path.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Graham Thornicroft will be giving a lunchtime talk to the students from the MSc in Psychiatric Research and Mental Health Services and Population as part of our Careers Development Programme on Thursday 17th March in Seminar Room 4 at the IoP. Professor Thornicroft is Head of  the Health Services and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry will be focusing on clinical and academic career pathways within mental health services.

On 9th June we will have an Assistant Psychologist AP) from South London and Maudsley NHS Trust speak to students about her job as an AP.

In the second semester our career development programme will run as a series of lunchtime lectures and focus on clinical psychology and clinical training. We have invited a range of people who are invovled in clinical training. The first lecture will be given by Mishael Soremekun, alumna from our MSc course and will speak to students on 28th March about her journey from MSc in Psychiatric Research to clinical training. The second lecture will be given by Dr Gabriella Samson, a clinical psychologist involved in IAPT. Dr Samson will talk to students on 11th April about careers in IAPT (high and low intensity training) . A third lecture is to be given by Louisa Rhodes, a former Research Assitant at the Institute of Psychiatry, who made a particularly inspirational journey to her clinical training (date TBA). 

There will also be an event on 9th June we will have two speakers focusing on clinical psychology training. One has been recently accepted to the clinical training programme at the Institute of Psychiatry and the other is an Assistant Psychologist in the process of applying to the clniical training programme. Both will give their insights and offer advice to students interested in pursuing this career path.