14.–16.05.2024 / 09:00–13:00 / Strategic & confident positioning in science: Engaging with hierarchies of power and nurturing partnerships
DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS, EARLY-PHASE POSTDOCS
This workshop is intended to provide participants with some unconsciously intransparent or even consciously hidden information about a career in science and rules of the underlying game, giving additional relevant insights into the scientific system. The aim of the event is to appropriately encourage and empower scientists who are aiming for a career in academia to find their place in the hierarchical and competition-driven scientific community in a self-effective and proactive manner using customized approaches. A well-balanced combination of trainer input and interactive hands-on activities will allow participants to reflect on their own experiences with hierarchies and competition. Workshops goals are to recognize available resources and opportunities that may help them to overcome personal challenges and boundaries.
This workshop will cover:
- The different career pathways towards Academic Independence: A systemic overview of the German academic system and its typical challenges and opportunities.
- Confusing entanglements and contradictions: Traditional power principles with both corresponding privileges and related cultural and structural hurdles.
- Science-specific gender & intercultural issues
- The relevance of visibility, networks and micropolitics in terms of individual career success
Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, participants will...
– have more transparency about the possible trajectories towards academic independence or a permanent position in the science sector in Germany
– have more clarity about how they have been personally affected by culture, structures, implicit rules and biases of the German academic system (i.e., privileges and marginalization, transparent and intransparent rules, experienced injustice, bias, discrimination, competition, lone wolf mentality, exclusion)
– have more specific ideas how to develop more awareness for gender and intercultural aspects on an individual and collective level and have learnt how to integrate these insights into their personal way of behaviour and communication
– have gained new perspectives on self-presentation and networking activities and have received suggestions how to realize that in their day-to-day life as a researcher
Requirements
B2 level of proficiency in English. Participants will be forwarded a questionnaire related to the topics of the workshop two weeks before the workshop. After the reflection and a week prior to the workshop, they send their responses back to the trainer. This is a prerequisite for attending the workshop.
ORGANISER Münster Centre for Emerging Researchers (CERes)
FACILITATOR Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi
VENUE Zoom
AVAILABLE PLACES 12
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