Careers in Publishing - free online panel, Oct 19-23

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Forwarded from MIT's Global Education and Career Development Office:

*Online panel discussion: Careers in Publishing (10/19-10/23)*

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Humanities and Social Science Graduate Students and Postdocs:*

Versatile PhD will host a free web-based asynchronous panel discussion 
on Careers in Publishing, October 19-23. All panelists are PhDs from 
Humanities or Social Science fields:

- A Humanities PhD who has served in several roles at an academic 
digital press and is currently its Director of Strategic Initiatives

- A Historian who is now Editorial Director at a major academic press, 
and formerly the executive director of a small scholarly press

- A Political Scientist who is Manager of Content at a digital service 
and app distributing global newspaper content, and formerly Digital 
Content Strategist at an educational publisher

- A Philosopher who is currently Senior Acquisitions Editor at an 
academic press, and formerly Associate Editor at an independent 
trade/academic publishing house

More information here: http://vphd.info/1jzr9Ic

You can interact with panelists throughout the week on the site, or 
follow the discussion via email. All questions welcome, from the most 
general to the very specific.

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*Other upcoming Versatile PhD – non-academic career path discussions:*

Nov. 16-20: “University Administration for STEM” in the STEM forum

Jan. 25-29: “Careers in Business” in the Humanities/Social Science forum

Feb. 22-26: “Careers in Software Engineering” in the STEM forum

Mar. 14-18: “Careers in Technical Writing” in the Humanities/Social 
Science forum

Mark your calendars for the topics that interest you and plan to visit 
the site a lot those weeks!

*MIT subscribes to the Versatile PhD, the largest online community 
dedicated to non-academic and non-faculty careers for PhDs in 
humanities, social science and STEM. To access the Versatile PhD: 
https://gecd.mit.edu/resources/mit-only-resources***

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