Agency in Academia:

Self‑Efficacy Strategies for Early Career Researchers
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Target group: tba

In the 2023 DZHW Science Survey, 57% of the 11,356 respondents across disciplines and career stages reported that they had seriously considered leaving academia in the past two years. In particular, sSystem-related factors such as the WissZeitVG (Act on Fixed-Term Employment in German Academia), high workloads, and work-life balance issues weighing particularly heavily on early -career researchers. 
This interactive workshop acknowledges these structural challenges while focusing on how researchers can still experience a sense of  agency in their everyday work. Drawing on Albert Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, we explore how beliefs about our own capabilities shape both our chances of success and our responses to institutional pressures – not as a route to self-optimisation, but as a way of coping with feelings of powerlessness and , impostor phenomenon etc. Using tools for self-reflection and peer exchange, participants will identify drivers and obstacles of self-efficacy and develop concise, context-sensitive measures to strengthen individual and collective self-efficacy within their research environments.

Objectives:

  • Understand core mechanisms of individual and collective self efficacy within the German academic system
  • Reflect on personal engagement patterns as situated within this system
  • Develop concise, context-sensitive interventions to strengthen self efficacy in one’s research environment

Facilitator: tba

Diese Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt. // This event will be held in English.

Anmeldung

If you would like to participate in this event and it is already marked as fully booked, you are welcome to join the waiting list. It often happens that registered participants cancel their attendance, which creates available spots. Free spots are allocated in the order of waiting list registrations. If spots become available within 72 hours before the event starts, we will notify several registrants simultaneously. These spots will then be allocated on a 'first come, first served' basis.