Episode 1: Looking but Lost

On the inaugural episode of PostDoctoral, we tackle the question "How do I make the most of my graduate school's resources and career services offerings?" We turned to Dr. Susan Carvalho to learn more about how graduate schools are evolving their career services offerings to adapt to the changing PhD landscape.

A little about our guest:
Susan Carvalho serves as Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at The University of Alabama, where she oversees recruitment, admissions, financial support, new program proposals, professional development (including Career Center partnerships), and academic policy related to the University’s master’s and doctoral programs. She also serves on the Council of Graduate Schools’ Humanities Coalition, an ongoing initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation that seeks to understand and support the careers of PhD’s in the humanities. In addition to her UA role, Dean Carvalho serves as a senior advisor to the American Council on Education’s Internationalization Laboratory, which has guided the work of over 150 universities in strategic planning for international activities. In this role she has mentored universities from Colombia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and the US.