A major aim of today is to examine how you can progress to the top of the ladder, and to think about how long this may take. Rungs = the different positons, from prob, to prof. The sides of ladder are some of the roles that have to be performed to progress up the ladder One very important factor that affects how you progress up the ladder is the role of the ‘Research Assessment Exercise’ And how this affects your employability;
Lectureships – universities and colleges Post-Doc teaching fellowship – funding for research but also includes substantial portion of teaching responsibility Temp or part-time lectureship – would suit you if you are not sure you want to go into academia and want to try out a teaching career. Usually cover sabbaticals, but obviously very little job stability or long term prospects Research fellowships – fixed term funding either for an existing project which you join, or to fund you to develop your own research further – usually a university department or university research centre Research Assistant – for non-university research centres Research Officer - can include more administration or presentation to an outside audience, often more integrated into other research organisations; a term used a lot in engineering or health than in humanities and social science
CALUM Two other skills that are imperative for a successful career are networking and managerial skills. Although networking has sycophantic connotations, it will ultimately prove useful. If you talk to others you will be able to get a lot of information you might not otherwise have, eg when that prime job is to be adverstised, what is the best time to submit that grant/paper eg everyone tries to get their paper accepted by the end of the year so there is more competition in December, what your competitors are doing. If you leave a good impression, people will remember you when it comes to thinking of potential seminar speakers (more exposure), lab to which they send their good PhD students as postdocs (good staff), potential collaborator (more papers). Suggest – start networking at UCL – fill in details on page will pass around so can network & support each other from today To have a successful lab you need to be a successful manager, getting the best out of your staff so that they generate good papers for you and spread the word that yours is a good lab to work in. You’ll be managing a variety of people at several different levels, which will detract from you doing your own benchwork. BUT, you are your own best resource at the beginning, so you need to be able to continue researching without ignoring your staff! Coffee
Hope you found that exercise useful Near end, just sumarise what we have covered today.
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