Target Audience

Late stage postgraduate research students

Early career researchers

Process

This course is a participative small group workshop delivered over one full day.

Description

This one day workshop (0930 to 1630 hours) is for people who are considering a career as an academic researcher before possibly moving into a research and teaching career. The course is built around a series of short talks, small group discussions and practical exercises to guide you in your choices and what you need to put in place if you are to ‘make it’ as an academic researcher. The course CANNOT be tailored to individual careers advice because participants will come from a variety of very different backgrounds and disciplines. BUT by taking part in the various tasks by the end of it you should be in a position to realistically appraise your own position and how this will affect your choice of future career.

Related courses in the Research Training Programme

• Introduction to writing successful fellowship applications
• Nature of the PhD and supervision process
• Presentation skills for researchers
• Further presentation skills for researchers
• Review your presentation skills (postgraduate students only)

What do you need to do in order to maximise your chances of continuing in an academic career? What plans do you need to make, how can you develop effective collaborative networks, how many publications do you need and how do you get published? How can you use your post-doctoral experience? This one-day course is delivered by Dr Kaye Haw, who will use her personal experience as an academic to challenge you to start answering some of these questions. By the end of the course you will have a clear understanding of what it takes to be an academic.

Aims 

• To consider your current position and how the decisions that you have made have consequences for your future career path.

• To prepare a realistic three to five year plan based on your current aspirations.

• To understand how to build up your own profile and portfolio to help with your career objectives
  

Objectives

• To provide PRACTICAL advice based on the experiences of practicing researchers and careers advisor for those thinking about a career in academia.

• To make informed choices through learning about the choices and experiences of others.

 Feedback from Students

“Got a really good idea of what it might be like to be an academic researcher.” 23/05/08

"Good interactive session.” 23/05/08

“…best Researcher Academy course I have ever done!” 23/05/08

“I found it very inspirational.” 30/04/08

“…wealth of good advice.” 30/04/08

“Brilliant.” 30/04/08

“It was great” 30/04/08

“Cleared my mind in deciding what I am going to do in the future (3-5 years from now).” 12/03/08

“The exercises were very helpful” 12/03/08