Event Report

This is a record of the 2025 Advanced COLA, a step-up career development program for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, held on August 5, 2025.
Please see here for details of the conference and the program.

Lecture Recording

Date

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 13:00-17:00
[Networking with the instructor] 17:15-18:00

Lecturer

Mr. Kim Shin-woo

• Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
• Graduated from the Graduate School of Global Studies, Sophia University, Doctoral course in Area Studies

Mr. Kenji Yamauchi

• Sports Nippon Newspaper Co., Ltd.
• Doctoral Doctoral course Hokkaido University University Graduate School of Letters (Human Sciences)

Mr. Sho Suegami

• Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
• Sophia University Graduate School of Human Sciences, Doctoral course in Psychology (Psychology)

Participant comments

• I was able to hear specific details about the processes the speakers went through to reach their current careers, which sparked my interest in areas I had not been aware of before.
• It was great to hear from someone who is currently walking the path between being a researcher and working in a non-research field. This motivated me to continue my job search, as it made me want to do research on companies like this.
• He had been considering a career other than research in the future, but I had never really heard him talk about why he chose a career other than research after getting a doctorate, or what kind of work he ended up doing, so I was glad to have the opportunity to hear about it this time.
• I got a good idea of what it's like to be a psychologist working in a company, and I learned about the appeal of corporate research. I also found the career path of "achieving success in corporate research and then returning to academia" very informative.

Number of participants

• DC: 10 people
• MC: 4 people
• undergraduate　(BC): 2
  Total: 16 people

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