Hayley Shaw is a Knowledge Exchange Manager in the Institute of Environment, Health, Risks and Futures at Cranfield University. In this Careers After Biological Sciences presentation, Hayley describes some of the work of a Knowledge Exchange Manager, and outlines how she moved from an initial intention to be a lollypop lady, via a degree in Physiology and Pharmacology at Leicester, and as a Graduate Recruitment Consultant, to reach her current role.

1. Hayley Shaw
Knowledge Exchange Manager
Institute for Environment, Health, Risks and Futures
Talking about the future:
Your career and mine

2. What I want to get across
1)
Your University of Leicester
Degree is AWESOME.
2)
Know your skills and know
what you love.
3)
Believe in yourself. You WILL
find a job that’s right for you.

3. But first, a shout out…

4. Me?

5. Me?

6. Lollipop lady
Teacher?
Midwife?
Alan Sugar’s
next
apprentice?
CEO of my own
company…
Surely?
Biologist?
Professional
fighter?
Physiology and Pharmacology
Cure AIDS?
Clinical trials?
“I was lonely in the lab. You like
to talk. You’re sick of being poor
and want loads of money.
SALES!
Neuroscientist?

7. SALES!
Pharmaceutical sales?
Graduate recruitment consultant
(selling grads into scientific and
other jobs!)
How did my Leicester
Biosciences Degree get
me here?
?!
KTP Manager?
Knowledge Exchange
Manager (Env. Risk)
Knowledge Exchange
Manager (Env. Risk & Futures)
Knowledge Exchange Manager
(Env. Risk & Futures & Farming & Nutrient Recovery & Ecosystem Services &…..

8. What does a
Knowledge Exchange
Manager do?

9. Plug in to the research
that’s happening
at the
university

10. Help to share
scientific knowledge
with people who
need it
Or even better, coGather knowledge
design the research so
from stakeholders to
you KNOW it meets
feeduser needs
back into the
research

11. This is where I sit

13. It’s no longer about just
communicating what we
know and expecting others
to listen

14. Crowdsourcing and citizen
science initiatives have
shown us that often, the
public know a lot more than
we think!

15. What does a
FUTURIST do?

16. What I want to get across
1)
Your University of Leicester
Degree is AWESOME.
2)
Know your skills and know
what you love.
3)
Believe in yourself. You WILL
find a job that’s right for you.