#Altac careers have been described as off the tenure track, but within the academic orbit. These positions are serviced by “hybrid humanities scholars” who work in a diverse range of institutions including universities, cultural heritage bodies, libraries, museums, academic publishing, and the public sector. Roles often include a combination of administration, project management, teaching and research work.
Workshop outline:
This free, 3-hour workshop will explore strategies and tools to help PhD candidates and early career researchers imagine and build alternative academic careers. It will include a panel session with several practicing “alt-academics”, hands-on activities and plenty of lively discussion and debate.
We’ll be asking questions such as:
- How can PhD students better locate their research and work in an employable context?
- How can PhD students prepare for alternative academic careers during and after their candidature?
- What are the main opportunities and challenges associated with alternative academic careers?
Date: Tuesday 18 March, 2014
Time: 9:00 – 12:00
Location: CLT, Ground Floor Physics Building, UWA Crawley Campus
Who should attend this workshop?
Postgraduate students and early career researchers.
Prerequisites:
No prior knowledge is required. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop or a tablet.
About the presenters:
The workshop will be facilitated by Jo Hawkins (PhD Candidate, University of Western Australia) and Dr Jason Ensor Research & Technical Development Manager, Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney).
The #Altac Track: Strategies to imagine and build alternative academic careersJo Hawkins
Tuesday, 18 March 2014 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (AWST)
Digital Humanities Australasia
#Altac careers have been described as off the tenure track, but within the academic orbit. These positions are serviced by “hybrid humanities scholars” who work in a diverse range of institutions including universities, cultural heritage bodies, libraries, museums, academic publishing, and the public sector. Roles often include a combination of administration, project management, teaching and research work.
This free, 3-hour workshop explored strategies and tools to help PhD candidates and early career researchers imagine and build alternative academic careers. It included a panel session with several practicing “alt-academics”, hands-on activities and plenty of lively discussion and debate.
The workshop was facilitated by Jo Hawkins (PhD Candidate, University of Western Australia) and Dr Jason Ensor (Research & Technical Development Manager, Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney).
Panel members included:
Sarah McQuade
Director - Community, Learning & Discovery
State Library of WA
@sarah_mcquade
Ingrid Mason
eResearch Analyst, Intersect Australia
Data specialist, Australian National Data Service
@1n9r1d
Daniel Powell
PhD candidate, Digital Humanities
University of Victoria, Canada
@djp2025
http://djp2025.com/
Jonathon Hutchinson
Researcher and Lecturer, Online Media
University of Sydney
@dhutchman
http://jonathonhutchinson.com/
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The #Altac Track: Strategies to imagine and build alternative academic careersJo Hawkins
Tuesday, 18 March 2014 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (AWST)
Digital Humanities Australasia
#Altac careers have been described as off the tenure track, but within the academic orbit. These positions are serviced by “hybrid humanities scholars” who work in a diverse range of institutions including universities, cultural heritage bodies, libraries, museums, academic publishing, and the public sector. Roles often include a combination of administration, project management, teaching and research work.
This free, 3-hour workshop explored strategies and tools to help PhD candidates and early career researchers imagine and build alternative academic careers. It included a panel session with several practicing “alt-academics”, hands-on activities and plenty of lively discussion and debate.
The workshop was facilitated by Jo Hawkins (PhD Candidate, University of Western Australia) and Dr Jason Ensor (Research & Technical Development Manager, Digital Humanities, University of Western Sydney).
Panel members included:
Sarah McQuade
Director - Community, Learning & Discovery
State Library of WA
@sarah_mcquade
Ingrid Mason
eResearch Analyst, Intersect Australia
Data specialist, Australian National Data Service
@1n9r1d
Daniel Powell
PhD candidate, Digital Humanities
University of Victoria, Canada
@djp2025
http://djp2025.com/
Jonathon Hutchinson
Researcher and Lecturer, Online Media
University of Sydney
@dhutchman
http://jonathonhutchinson.com/
Mass Edu Data Challenge - Kick-off & Data Divecscranto
The Mass EduData Challenge - a six week “data challenge” - has launched! The event focuses on elementary and secondary school education - a top priority in Massachusetts. Schools in the Commonwealth’s 351 towns and cities annually generate over 75,000 new graduates, providing crucial skills for young people, and driving a fundamental investment in the Commonwealth’s 21st century workforce and economy.
This, the first-ever data challenge from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) seeks to improve understandings of DESE’s historical data and identify new and valuable patterns and insights to help inform education policy and increase public engagement with the Commonwealth’s education data. Participants are encouraged to (i) generate analyses and visualizations to better illustrate identified patterns, and (ii) to develop their own unique “lens” through which to analyze the data by choosing to focus on new relationships between data sets or by bringing in external data for comparison.
The six-week data challenge launched on May 28th and will close on July 8th with an awards ceremony event at hack/reduce in Cambridge, MA.. There are four prize categories: Best Use of Data [prize: $1,500 & a Google Nexus Tablet], Most Visually Compelling [$1,500 & a Google Nexus Tablet], Crowd Favorite [$1,000 & a Google Nexus Tablet] and Collaborative Data Contribution [$500].
This data challenge is driven through the Governor’s Mass Big Data Initiative and is organized in partnership with DESE, the Office of the Government Innovation Officer of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and hack/reduce. Industry sponsors include HubSpot, Socrata and LearnLaunch.
Participants can register for the Mass EduData Challenge as a team or as an individual by visiting https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/mass-edudata-challenge and anyone can view the submissions as they come in and cast their vote for the data challenge winners.
Whether you’re competing in the challenge or watching the developers’ progress, it’s sure to be an exciting six weeks!
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The #altac track: Strategies to imagine and build alternative academic careers.
1. The #altac track
Strategies to imagine & build
alternative academic careers
Jason Ensor
Research & Technical Development Manager
Digital Humanities Research Group
University of Western Sydney
@JasonEnsor @AustLiterature
Digital Humanities Australasia, March 2014
Perth, Western Australia
Jo Hawkins
PhD Candidate
History
University of Western Australia
@History_Punk
2. What is #altac?
• Alternative academic careers have been described as
off the tenure track but within the academic orbit.
• #Altac positions are serviced by ‘hybrid’ humanities
scholars who work in a diverse range of institutions
including:
• Universities
• Cultural heritage bodies
• Libraries
• Museums
• Academic publishing
• The public sector
• Roles often include a combination of administration,
project management, teaching and research work.
#dha2014 #altac
3. The traditional purpose of a PhD was
to provide the training necessary to
start on an academic career. This is no
longer the case and in some countries
as few as five percent of PhD
graduates find permanent academic
positions.
The Changing PhD: Discussion Paper, Group of Eight, March 2013,
p.5 <http://www.go8.edu.au/__documents/go8-policy-
analysis/2013/the-changing-phd_final.pdf>
#dha2014 #altac
4. ‘While the disconnect between the
availability of tenure-track jobs and
the single-minded focus with which
graduate programs prepare students
for that specific career path is not at
all new, the problem is becoming ever
more urgent due to the increasing
casualization of academic
labor…menial salaries, no benefits,
and no job security…’
Katina Rogers, Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and
Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track, University of Virginia Library,
August 2013 <http://libra.virginia.edu/catalog/libra-oa:3480>
‘
#dha2014 #altac
5. The young people we select to
undertake PhD training are by
definition amongst the best and
brightest we have in terms of their
intellectual capabilities. We might
expect them to become our future
leaders and to contribute in many
ways to the development of a
prosperous, healthy and happy world
– and hope they do so.
The Changing PhD: Discussion Paper, Group of Eight, March 2013,
p.6 <http://www.go8.edu.au/__documents/go8-policy-
analysis/2013/the-changing-phd_final.pdf>
#dha2014 #altac
7. Sarah McQuade
Director - Community, Learning &
Discovery
State Library of WA
@sarah_mcquade
Jonathon Hutchinson,
Researcher & Lecturer, Online Media
University of Sydney
@dhutchman
#altac #firesidechat
Ingrid Mason
eResearch Analyst at Intersect Australia
Data specialist at Australian National Data
Service
@1n9r1d
Daniel Powell
PhD candidate, Digital Humanities
University of Victoria, Canada
@djp2025
9. 1. Think individually about how you could ‘pitch’ yourself
to a potential employer. Refer to the worksheet. (5
minutes)
2. Get in groups of 3-4 people to share your ideas. Panel
members will work with groups during this time. (10
minutes)
3. We’ll ask volunteers to deliver a 2-minute pitch to the
Panel (25 minutes)
#dha2014 #altac
12. What others say about youWhat you say about yourself
Blogs
Twitter
Academia.edu
LinkedIn
YouTube
Google Scholar
Your digital shadowYour digital footprint
13. What is altmetrics?
• ‘Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics
based on the Social Web for analyzing and informing
scholarship.’ (Source: http://altmetrics.org/manifesto)
• Why do we need new ways to measure research impact?
• What tools should you use to measure and record
altmetrics?
• Do altmetrics reflect research impact - or just empty
buzz?
14. Altmetrics show & tell
1. Work individually to identify some of your own altmetrics
using your laptop/tablet. (5 minutes)
• Tweets (retweets, replies, reach)
• Blog posts (views, comments)
• Video/ slideshare / Prezi views
• Downloads/ visits to academia.edu.au
• Other ie: Conversation.edu articles
2. Share results in groups of 3-4 (5 minutes)
3. Please share and discuss your findings with the entire
group. (10 minutes)
#dha2014 #altac
16. Making connections
• What kind of attitudes do our panel members share?
• What technical skills-sets do they possess?
• How important was networking?
• What skills did they learn ‘on the job’ and what skills did they develop
before or during their candidature?
• Has building a digital footprint (blogs, social media) helped our
panelists in their careers?
• How flexible are they within the employment market?
• What challenges have they faced?
• To what extent did panel members plan their careers? Did they have a
clear idea of their direction or did they make sense of it as they go?
#dha2014 #altac
Check your blog analytics
http://scholar.google.com.au
http://impactstory.org/
Twitter analytics ie
Hootsuite
http://tweetreach.com/ (measures impact of specific hashtags – great for conferences)