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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.

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Spotlight session

Careers in Environmental Psychology – Bridging Disciplines for Conservation

Featuring presentations from Andrea Rizzardi Orlandi and Lora Denkovic-Kraljev.

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

  1. Turning Theory into Practice- Developing Skills and Confidence as a Psychology Undergraduate
  2. Clinical Psychology – connect with Aspiring Clinical Psychologists in the BPS Pre Qualification Group
  3. Tips for international students coming to the UK - opportunities and challenges