Open Post Academics

OPA is an organization that was created to encourage folks with a PhD to share their knowledge and skills more openly with the world.

We share resources, network and offer informal peer-support to one another as we seek to engage in projects and do work outside of academia.

Our website is currently down (sorry, we’re working on it).

In the meantime, feel free to peruse some of our excellent resources.

Leaving the Academy (2023) - An open participatory research project that addresses what advice folks have for people considering leaving academia.
Toolkit for Cross Disciplinary Workshops (2022) - Open problem workshop series where we asked how real world problems could call for the expertise of PhDs from all fields.

What I Wish I Had Known (2018) - Advice from women who have left academia about what they wish they had known.