career development & grantsmanship
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Career Development & Grantsmanship. Academic Careers: Key Issues. To PhD or not to PhD: I wish I knew If no… what’s next? If yes… Where? How? Who? When?. I wish I knew…. Any money in this game? http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure/2006/univer06.html - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Career Development & Grantsmanship
Academic Careers: Key Issues
• To PhD or not to PhD:
• I wish I knew• If no… what’s next?• If yes…
a. Where?
b. How?
c. Who?
d. When?
I wish I knew…
• Any money in this game?
• http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/english/publications/salarydisclosure/2006/univer06.html
• What do professors do?• Research• Teaching• Service• Flexibility: Any 70 hours a
week
If not a PhD… then What?
• MSc as focused expertise
• Specialist vs. MBA generalist
• Put together with experience base
• The DBA as a PhD alternative
If not PhD’s, where are they?
• Red Crow College• Financial Analyst• Investment Counselor• Research Consultant• Family business• Homemaker• Consulting• Alberta Gov’t Analyst
• Research Consultant• Lecturer: UNB• Homemaker• Lecturer: UofL• Marketing Research• Commodity Pricing
Analyst• FedEx China Real
Estate Specialist
If PhD… Where?
• Not where you want to end up unless more than one school in town
• Trickle down of graduates
• http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html
• AACSB
Where have people gone?
• PhD USM (Malaysia)• PhD U Victoria• PhD Western Ontario• PhD U of Alberta• PhD Queens
• PhD Monash• PhD U of Calgary• PhD Concordia• PhD UBC• PhD Texas A&M
If PhD… How?
• Coursework Model – North American – Residential – Coursework + Comps + Diss
• Non-coursework Model – Europe & Australia – Nonresidential is possible – Proposal + Diss
If PhD… Who?
• By your supervisor shall ye be known…
• All faculty are risky but junior faculty are particularly risky
• Supervisor interruptus is survivable
• Look for depth in area vs. single star
If Phd… when?
• “Daddy, will I be still going to school when I’m as old as you?”
• Many come late to academia – esp in business
• Work/family balance• Pension / mandatory
retirement
OK, I’m ABD… now what?
• DON’T LEAVE!!!!• Teaching experience• Presentations / Pubs• Go on the market• Your supervisor should
contact his/her network• Go to your area’s recruiting
conference• http://www.aomonline.org/
Successful Grantsmanship
Turning Words into Dollars
Standard Research Grants
• Programmatic research
• Detailed (do-able) method
• Budget that is heavy on grad student salaries and light on course buy-outs, travel and toys
Standard Grants: Multi-disciplinary
• Dynamic and evolutionary models of urban and regional systems
• Principal Investigator: Roger White (Geography, Memorial University)
• Status: Co-investigator• Location: Memorial University;
Research Institute for Knowledge Systems - Maastricht, The Netherlands; Los Alamos National Laboratories - New Mexico, USA
• Awarded budget: $128,000.00
• New SSHRC Core Value: Interactive Engagement
• Few and far between• Meaningful, intensive
and connected:• Networking• Shared infrastructure• Global presence
Strategic Themes
• Challenges and Opportunities in the Knowledge Based Economy
• Principal Investigator: Wade Locke (Economics, Memorial University)
• Status: Co-investigator• Location: Memorial University
(Arts & Science and Business Administration) and Dept. of Development & Rural Renewal, Government of Newfoundland & Labrador
• Awarded budget: $495,000.00
• New SSHRC Core Value: Maximum Knowledge Impact
• What good is it?• Political agenda• Targeted programs• Initiative on the New
Economy• Community-University
Research Alliances• Identify and work with
knowledge ‘users’
Human Subjects Approval
• “Ethics” approval of proposed research
• Submitted to MSc Mgt Program Committee for review prior to commencing research
• http://www.uleth.ca/rch/funding/forms/Application_for_Ethical_Review_of_Human_Subject_Research.doc
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