Jobs, Transformations & Impact — RelSciCom Workshop Series 2026

What is the point of your PhD? What is the point of being an expert? How can you demon­strate your knowl­edge to poten­tial employ­ers both inside and out­side acad­e­mia? This series of work­shops will help you to artic­u­late the impor­tance of well-researched social sci­en­tif­ic infor­ma­tion and direct­ly con­tribute to knowl­edge cre­ation, includ­ing through social media and data­bas­es.

This is the fourth work­shop in the series and address­es the urgent need for effec­tive sci­ence com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the study of reli­gions. This work­shop will dis­cuss how Reli­gious Stud­ies stu­dents can have a pub­lic impact with their research, con­tribut­ing to social trans­for­ma­tion. The prac­ti­cal ses­sion will be split into the Ger­man and UK con­texts, where stu­dents will hear from experts in both acad­e­mia and beyond on careers after the study of reli­gion.