{"id":11,"date":"2022-06-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/?p=11"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T14:51:20","slug":"alt-ac-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/2022\/06\/08\/alt-ac-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt-Ac Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchyourway.com\/\">Dr Naomi Tyrrell <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alt-Ac (alternative academic) careers offer researchers many great opportunities to utilise their knowledge, skills, and interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Naomi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2022\/05\/naomi-loc-icon-2_orig.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2022\/05\/naomi-loc-icon-2_orig.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2022\/05\/naomi-loc-icon-2_orig-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2022\/05\/naomi-loc-icon-2_orig-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Naomi Tyrrell is a Social Research Consultant at her company <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchyourway.com\/\">Research Your Way<\/a><\/em> and is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the <em>School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences <\/em>at the <em>University of Plymouth<\/em>. She completed her PhD in 2006, worked in commercial research initially and then moved back into academia to hold research and lecturing positions at <em>University College Cork<\/em> and <em>University of Plymouth<\/em>. In 2019, transitioned out of academia once again, establishing her own research consultancy. She delivers engaging workshops, training and coaching to universities and DTPs across the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>About this blog<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naomi has created this series of articles, videos and resources to help researchers consider their career development needs and planning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2022\/05\/nt-round-av.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2022\/05\/nt-round-av.png 170w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2022\/05\/nt-round-av-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-twitter  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ResearchSkills1\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M22.23,5.924c-0.736,0.326-1.527,0.547-2.357,0.646c0.847-0.508,1.498-1.312,1.804-2.27 c-0.793,0.47-1.671,0.812-2.606,0.996C18.324,4.498,17.257,4,16.077,4c-2.266,0-4.103,1.837-4.103,4.103 c0,0.322,0.036,0.635,0.106,0.935C8.67,8.867,5.647,7.234,3.623,4.751C3.27,5.357,3.067,6.062,3.067,6.814 c0,1.424,0.724,2.679,1.825,3.415c-0.673-0.021-1.305-0.206-1.859-0.513c0,0.017,0,0.034,0,0.052c0,1.988,1.414,3.647,3.292,4.023 c-0.344,0.094-0.707,0.144-1.081,0.144c-0.264,0-0.521-0.026-0.772-0.074c0.522,1.63,2.038,2.816,3.833,2.85 c-1.404,1.1-3.174,1.756-5.096,1.756c-0.331,0-0.658-0.019-0.979-0.057c1.816,1.164,3.973,1.843,6.29,1.843 c7.547,0,11.675-6.252,11.675-11.675c0-0.178-0.004-0.355-0.012-0.531C20.985,7.47,21.68,6.747,22.23,5.924z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr Naomi Tyrrell Alt-Ac (alternative academic) careers offer researchers many great opportunities to utilise their knowledge, skills, and interests. About Naomi Dr Naomi Tyrrell is a Social Research Consultant at her company Research Your Way and is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/2022\/06\/08\/alt-ac-careers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alt-Ac Careers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/altaccareersforresearchers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}