About the Careers series
Across five key themes, explore directions for those starting out, transitioning, or developing an established career, with practical guidance to support your next steps.
Careers series
Discover the breadth of career possibilities with psychology through our Careers series.
Choose your episode
Your Career in the Psychological Professions
Explore careers within the psychological professions, including practitioner psychologists and roles across the wider psychological workforce where a psychology qualification is valuable.
Each episode helps you understand how to progress, specialise, and grow, supporting development and informed choices throughout your professional journey.
- Building Your Career as a Psychological Practitioner – a guide to roles in the wider psychological workforce
- Clinical Psychology: Application and Interview Tips for DClinPsy training
- Health Psychology: From training to practice - A personal journey from student to Health Psychologist
- Occupational Psychology: From training to practice – How Occupational Psychologists Shape Fair and Effective Selection & Assessment
- Forensic Psychology: A day in the life of an extremism spoc in a high secure estate. The highs and lows of working with terrorist offenders
- Becoming an Educational Psychologist: Pathways, Practice and Purpose
- A Week in the life of a Clinical Psychologist in private practice
- Mental Health Support Teams and the Role of the Education Mental Health Practitioner
- Coaching Psychology, a dynamic exploration of pathways and future careers
Using Psychology in your Career
Discover how psychology applies beyond traditional roles and how to recognise opportunities and apply psychology skills across diverse professional settings.
Episodes showcase careers across business, education, health, marketing, policy, the third sector and more, where psychological knowledge and transferable skills are highly valued.
- Careers for Psychology Graduates
- AI and technology in psychological research
- An introduction to behaviour change: How to change your career and change the world
- Acting Around Change: How Psychology and Drama Transform Lives in Youth Justice
- Becoming a Psychology Teacher: The 14–19 PGCE Explained
- Political Psychology Explained
- Why all Psychology Graduates Should Consider Working in a Higher Education Third Space Position
- Birdsong, Biodiversity, and Wellbeing. Cutting-Edge Environmental Psychology for People and Planet
- My journey from graduate to trainee CBT therapist
Skills, Employability & Development
Learn how to identify, develop, and articulate skills gained through psychology study, professional practice, and work‑based experience.
Episodes explore how transferable skills are applied, support professional development, and build confidence and adaptability across varied roles, career stages, organisational settings, and sectors.
- Going from Telesales to Trauma: How to Make Any Role Psychology
- Seeing the Bigger Picture: Taking the Time to Reflect on Your Professional Skills in Psychology
- Working in Individual Placement and Support: Developing Professional Skills That Make a Real Difference
- Assistant Psychologist: Tips for Applications for an AP working with Older Adults in Neuropsychology
- Reflection in psychology
Community and Connection
Explore how building relationships and networks supports your academic and professional journey across different career stages and pathways.
Episodes highlight connections with peers, professionals, and the wider psychology community, fostering belonging, collaboration, shared learning, and engagement through diverse experiences and perspectives.
Inclusivity, Belonging, Wellbeing & Support
Engage with inclusive conversations that recognise diverse experiences, identities, and pathways in education and work.
Episodes focus on wellbeing, support, and inclusive practice, encouraging open discussion around challenge, balance, and self‑care, while promoting belonging, resilience, and sustainable development through signposted resources.