Career Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers: Surviving your first five years 25 th Annual ANZAM Conference December 8, 2011 Professor Nigel Healey, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College of Business, Law and Social Sciences Nottingham Trent University
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Career development workshop for early career researchers
This workshop is designed for young researchers in the first five years or so of academic employment. It provides advice and discussion on key aspects of building an academic career, such as balancing teaching and research, developing a strong publication track record, how to build research grant activity and success, etc. The first part of the workshop features a presentation by Prof. Nigel Healey, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences Nottingham Trent University, UK discussing milestones for the first promotion including topics like balancing research and teaching or the value of services to the academic society.
The second part of the workshop focuses on finding research grants and writing grant proposals. Prof. Ross Chapman, Head, Deakin Graduate School of Business, Deakin University will an overview of the various categories of research grants and provides tips and hints from his experiences.
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Career Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers: Surviving your first five years
25th Annual ANZAM ConferenceDecember 8, 2011
Professor Nigel Healey, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College of Business, Law and Social Sciences
Nottingham Trent University
Overview?
• Why become an academic? (lit. review)
• What to expect in your first academic post (methodology)
• Surviving your first five years (field work)
• How to get promoted (analysis)
• Conclusions (conclusions)
Why become an academic?
1. Because you sleepwalk – from talented, perpetual student to junior academic
2. Because you choose to be an academic– Excitement of curiosity-driven research (“academic freedom”)– Vocational call of teaching– Opportunity to work in a diverse intellectual milieu– Chance to join a global community of scholars (academic vs
• How can I manage? – Email / computer needs – Office, keys, telephone – Day to day information – Course / unit materials – Teaching policies, including assessment and support materials – Printing and photocopying – Disposing of confidential material – Online & off campus teaching – Equipment in teaching rooms – Resources in my office – Readings for my course – Research activities – Employment related matters
• A-Z index for staff • Acronyms • Deakin computer and broadband sc
hemes for staff
• Deakin Studies Online help guides • Key dates • Principles of teaching and learning • Staff benefits information • Research supervisor training progra
m
• Supporting students • Teaching and Learning plans • Teaching tips
• Academic probation - procedure • Academic promotions • Career development • Faculty academic mentoring progra
m
• Graduate Certificate of Higher Education
• Induction and Orientation • Managing units • Mentoring Partnership Program • Online teaching environment (Deaki
• Research– Your goal (dream) is to convert your doctoral research into A*
journal articles– Your five year mission is to build a sustainable research agenda
and make publishing a habit– Find a work pattern that works for you – everyone is different– Protect your designated research time (a new challenge after life
• Administration (aka service)– Many universities use a 40:40:20 model (R:T:A)– Some use teaching remission to make admin more enticing– Avoid taking on heavy admin roles in your early years
• “ I’d love to, but I have all this prep and three papers from my PhD under revise and resubmit”
• “I think this is a role I’d love to do when I am up for promotion to Associate Prof., like Sean and Becky are”
– Resist diversion from your research and teaching priorities while making everyone think you are really collegial (make up on the social side)
• Key tips– Find a supportive peer group of other boot campers at your
university – you have more in common with a new psych lecturer than a management professor
– Find a mentor– Take up running or weights – addictive and obsessive and offsets
hours slumped over a PC– If you have any friends left from before grad school, nurture them– Think carefully before picking another academic as your life
partner – Note: it gets harder not to as you get older
• Most promotion schemes reflect 40:40:20 model– Need demonstrable evidence of research output – ie, that you have
converted your PhD into a sustainable and productive research agenda
– Need to show evidence of teaching capability (eg, student survey results, peer review)
– Need to show evidence of willingness to gradually build up your university service – Warning: being a “good egg” in the service area will not compensate for weakness in research and teaching