Life After IDS at Trent

Trent IDS graduates go on to a wide variety of careers that require and/or benefit from a deep understanding of development issues in a global context. These careers include the fields of teaching, journalism, law, local and international activism, and development work at home and abroad. We have alumni working in many parts of the world in development agencies, nongovernmental organizations, schools, universities, research organizations, government agencies, international institutions, and small businesses. Whatever career paths students choose, IDS prepares them to understand and appreciate diversity as well as world events and issues.

“In only a few short months since completing my IDS degree at Trent University, I have secured a paid internship in Tanzania doing HIV/AIDS education with the Woman Advancement Trust. The NGO was very impressed with the exposure I had had to an indigenous development agency while working in Ghana. Moreover, I feel that they were more comfortable giving me the position knowing that I had already lived in a different cultural setting for an extended period of time.”

~ Rachel Logel, IDS Graduate and Trent-in-Ghana Participant

So what can I do with an IDS degree anyway?

You could:

• Found an undergraduate IDS journal, like Sam Grey and Geoffrey Cameron
• Become the executive director of World University Services of Canada (WUSC), like Paul Davidson
• Win the Ontario Council for International Cooperation (OCIC)'s Youth Acting UP! award, like Sara Korosi
• Go on to become a Political Science professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, like Derek Hall
• Manage WWF-Canada's climate change campaign, like Keith Stewart
• Intern with CBC, like Chris Rompre