Publishing: roles for doctoral graduates

Data from ‘What Do Researchers Do?' shows that three and a half years after graduation, around 10.4% of doctoral graduates were known to be working in finance, business and IT, the grouping that contains the publishing industry, and that the proportion was up slightly from the 9.4% seen six months after graduation.

As this is a rather specialist industry, doctoral graduates in the sector are very concentrated in editorial and IT jobs, but many others are available and there may be potential for increased involvement of doctoral graduates.

Doctoral graduates from recent years are known to have worked in the following profiled roles:

• Editors
• IT systems developers
• Marketing executives
• Social and market researchers
• Software designers, programmers and engineers
• Technical authors