This presentation focuses on transitions on academic career from a PhD researcher to a post-doc. It discusses the promises, reality and dilemmas of a post-PhD phase and how to plan for the future and overcome the barriers that prevent us from moving on.
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The promise, reality and dilemmas of a post-PhD phase [OR In the need for optimism in academic tenure]
1. CALRG Seminar Series
Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University
17 March 2016
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The promise, reality and dilemmas of
a post-PhD phase [OR In the need
for optimism in academic tenure]
Koula Charitonos
Disruptive Media Learning Lab,
Coventry University
koula.charitonos@coventry.ac.uk
@ch_koula
2.
3. Overview
⢠Who am I?
⢠Why did I choose this pathway?
⢠How do I do it?
⢠Where do I want to be next?
⢠How can I make this happen?
⢠What do I know now that I didnât know before?
4. ⢠PhD: An investigation into the
use of a microblogging
technology in school trips to
museums
⢠MRes in Educational
Technology
⢠MA in Museum and Gallery
Management
⢠BA in Educational Sciences
⢠Research Assistant, DMLL
Coventry University
⢠Primary School Teacher,
Cyprus
⢠Language Teacher,
Suppl. Schools (London)
⢠Community Partnerships
Coordinator, The British
Museum (London)
⢠Intern, Tate Britain (London)
⢠Volunteer, Science Museum
Background
7. ⢠Profile
⢠celebrate multidisciplinary background
⢠highlight experience in professional settings
⢠develop an online presence (e.g. Twitter,
LinkedIn, ResearchGate, academia.edu, Google
Scholar)
How do I do it?
10. ⢠Pounds
⢠CREET, Open University (MRes, PhD studies) (2008)
⢠A.G. Leventis Foundation (PhD studies) (2009)
⢠Santander Universities UK Network (2015)
⢠British Academy Schools Language Awards 2015
⢠University of Oslo (2013)
⢠BA Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014 - not successful)
⢠ESRC (IET - Project Grant) (2014 - not successful)
How do I do it?
11. ⢠Peer Esteem
⢠Invited Talks (x 6)
⢠Support organisation of events
⢠Awards
⢠Collaborations
⢠Visiting Research Fellow in IET
How do I do it?
16. ⢠Publications
⢠Pounds (Projects)
⢠PhD students
⢠Profile
⢠Peer esteem
⢠Proteges
⢠Professional Engagement
(Source: I. Marshall (nd) âSo you want to be a Reader or Professorâ. Presentation, Coventry University
(internal document))
7 Ps
19. ⢠Not a 9-5 job
⢠Insecurity and uncertainty
⢠Independent (and collaborative) work
⢠Initiative and leadership skills
⢠Driven by intrinsic motives
⢠Blend of work and personal life
⢠âbusiness of self presentationâ (Thomson, 2015)
- emphasis on excellence
23. Koula Charitonos
Disruptive Media Learning Lab,
Coventry University
koula.charitonos@coventry.ac.uk
@ch_koula
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Koula_Charitonos
Hinweis der Redaktion
The more I look back and reflect on how I ended up being in UK and doing what Iâm doing the more I realise that things are never happening in a linear way. Maybe a few years back - being younger and naive - I was thinking that Iâd take a pathway in which there is always progression and ascending upwards - like in the grey line if looking right to left - or one pathway where one experience will lead nicely and smoothly to another - like in the red line - but the reality is not this one. Indeed, over the years I experienced situations where I felt that I was making circles around the same point without any apparent progression (like when I was teaching in schools while doing PhD) - like if we are stuck in the yellow line - or thereâs even a downhill - if we are on the black line top to bottom. Even in those situations there is always something to take on to the next step. The way we are moving on and developing and essentially learn is always hidden in the intersections and crossovers and decisions of pathways we take in life. Transitions are not easy and this was the case for me in moving from a phd student to a researcher - from a very small example. OU is so close to my heart so even to express the new affiliation is a tricky part.