Secondments - PowerPoint Presentation

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Secondments in PhDEducation

Corina Balaban coba@edu.au.dkJie Gao jiga@edu.au.dkSue Wright suwr@dpu.dkUniversities in the Knowledge Economy UNIKE@au.dk DPU (Aarhus University) Slide2

UNIKE – Universities in the Knowledge EconomyMarie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Project, 2013-17

Research Question:How are processes of creating regional and global knowledge economies (ecologies?) redefining the nature and scope of universities in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Rim?First aim:A networked group of expertly trained, mobile and independent

researchers, able to work in a range of sectors and take new, critical and inter-disciplinary approaches to universities in global knowledge economies in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Rim.

Second aim

:

To create a cohort of current and future researcher leaders committed and able to develop doctoral education in their own institutions and

internationally.Slide3
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Project Composition6 European Partners (7 professors)12 PhD and 3 Post Doc Fellows – from 15

different countries(plus 4 Associated Fellows from China, Denmark, Austria)21 Associated Partners in Europe and Asia-Pacific– hosting fellows’ secondments and research visitsSlide5

Fellow-led Work Groups Prepare for Training workshopsWriting and editing support groups

UNIKE Mentors Meet at each workshopAnnual review of ‘Research, Training and Career Plan’ Contacts for career development, networking, dissemination etc

Research, Training and Career Plan Template, 6 month deadline, annual update

Secondments

Data

collection

for

own

research

Daily

work in organisation and networking in the sectorAdditional skills Task for /giving-back to the organisation

UNIKE 6 Workshopsand 2 InternationalConferences

Insitutional Training courses (each partner has different ECTS requirements)Own institution‘s PhD trainingPartners’ PhD Training Courses available to UNIKE Fellows (on a specifictopic or in English)

Supervision and Training

Supervisor

Supervise

research

project

Integrate

into

institution’s

research

milieu

University

regulations

(

upgrades

,

periodic

reviews

,

exam

procedure)

Advocate

,

mediator

within

the

u

niversity

(

e.g.administration

of

expenses

claims

)Slide6

SecondmentsSlide7

Secondments

(cont’d)Slide8

PhDs including SecondmentsEU aim – train knowledge workers

for industry, not academiaUNIKE aim – capable of moving between academia and other sectors (industry and ‘socio-economic actors’)Site for fieldwork – Learn how to conduct academic research in organisations

Experience of how the organisation/sector worksReciprocate – feedback something useful to the organisation

Develop

abilities

/

skills

beyond

PhD

training and useful for employment inside or outside academiaSlide9

Corina BalabanDoctoral education in Europe and USCIRGE, University of Washington, USAMarch-June 2015How did I use my

secondmentSite for fieldworkHow the centre/US university workedDeveloping skillsGiving backSlide10

Jie GaoJoint Campuses in Mainland ChinaSino-Danish Centre, Beijing, ChinaMarch-June 2014 and 2015Operation of SDCVantage point for researchSkills

acquiredFeedback to SDCSlide11

Lessons from Anthropology of OrganisationsLocation in a site to

gain insight into a fieldWhere is this organisation within the knowledge ecology? Strengths/vulnerabilities?Organisations not discrete – relations and boundaries being made, reinforced, changed

Insider/outsider position in organisationlocated in day to day work but protecting academic freedom

Reflexive

analysis

of

positionality

among

reflexive

employees – constant negotiation and adjustment – serendipityEthics – fit in but mark that you are researching all the time,

confidentiality among colleagues, avoid becoming a

resource in their politicsOwnership of material, their right to comment, gve feed back orally to secondment supervisor before giving it to them in writing – avoid surprising

them.Slide12

Thank youTak for jeres opmærksomhedSlide13

Secondment AgreementBetween Student, Head of Department, Secondment SupervisorARTICLE 1 Dates of SecondmentARTICLE 2 Detailed programme of the training period

ARTICLE 3 Description of Secondment taskARTICLE4 Training provided by Secondment Organisation ARTICLE 5 Research - how the secondment helps the thesis research  ARTICLE 6 Work arrangementsARTICLE 7 Coordination arrangements between UNIKE Fellow, university supervisor and secondment supervisorARTICLE 8 Confidentiality and other restrictionsARTICLE 9 Rights over research materialARTICLE 10 Employment (by the university not the secondment organisation)

ARTICLE 11 Financial supportARTICLE 12 InsuranceARTICLE 13 VisaARTICLE 14 Feedback and EvaluationARTICLE 15 LiabilityARTICLE

16 Dispute resolution

ARTICLE

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TerminationSlide14

Fellows (Started Aug/Sept 2013)

InstituteFellowCountry of originDoctoral / PostdoctoralAU, DenmarkMiguel Lim Corina BalabanFreya (Jie Gao) Jana Bacevic

PhilippinesRomaniaChina

Serbia

Doc

Doc

Doc

Postdoc

UB, UK

Janja Komljenovic

Que Anh Dang

Chris Muellerleile

SloveniaVietnamUSADocDoc

PostdocRU, UKKatja Jonsas

Catherine ButcherFinlandSaint Lucia, West IndiesDocDocLU, SloveniaKassaye Alemu SintayehuSina Westa

EthiopiaGermany

DocDocPorto, Portugal

Benedikte Custers

Vanja Ivosevic

Belgium

Croatia

Doc

Doc

ENS, France

Tatyana Bajenova

Uzbekistan

DocSlide15

WP 1 Concepts and theoriesQue Anh Dang: ASEM meetings and HE ‘policy travel’ from Europe to Asia. Bristol University, (Roger Dale)Kassaye

Alemu Sintayehu: Internationalisation of higher education in centres and peripheries. Ljubljana University, (Pavel Zgaga)Jie Gao: Conjunction of Chinese and Danish partners in the design and teaching of the Sino-Danish Centre. Aarhus University, (Sue Wright)Sina Westa: Academic values between globalisation and globalism. Ljubljana University, (Pavel Zgaga

)Corina Balaban: Comparing European and US flagship programmes for doctoral education. Aarhus University, (Sue Wright)Slide16

WP 2 Trends and developments)Janja Komljenovic: Mapping the field of higher education industries, and

choosing case studies. Bristol University (Susan Robertson)Miguel Lim: Audit culture and the industries of ranking. Aarhus University (Sue Wright)Tatyana Bajenova: Think Tanks and Academic Entrepreneurs in the Production of Knowledge. ENS de Lyon (Cecile Robert)Chris Muellerleille: New landscapes of publishing and knowledge dissemination. Bristol University (Susan Robertson)Jana Bacevic: Academic entrepreneurialism, civil society and democracy. Aarhus University (Sue Wright)

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WP 3 Policies and practices Vanja Ivosevic: Governance through autonomy – A context-rich

comparative study. University of Porto, (António M. Magalhães)Catherine Butcher: Alternative ownership, finance and organisation of universities. Roehampton University (Rebecca Boden)Katja Jonsas: Management and gender. Roehampton University (Rebecca Boden)Benedikte Custers: Impact of governance changes on the educational categories and internal life of universities. University of Porto (António M. Magalhães)

Rebecca Lund: The conditions and characteristics of academic work. Aarhus University (Sue Wright)Slide18

UNIKE Workshops and Summer SchoolsEventScientific Training

Complementary skillsAspects of Doctoral EducationCopenhagen, Oct 2013Global processes and regional spacesInternational networking and collaboration

History of policy debates about doctoral education in Europe and USABristol, Feb 2014 Ranking and governance

Publishing in different genres

Working/ researching in

organisations

Ljubljana, July 2014

Policy travel

Entrepreneurship and grants

Partners’ own practices

Roehampton,

Sept 2014

Management technologies

International conferences Academic Freedom Waiheke, NZ

Jan 2015

Research methodologies

Reviewing

articles

and

commenting

Student-led writing

groups

Porto,

July

2015

Figures on the HE landscape

W

riting abstracts for scientific papers

Governance narratives

Tba

,

Oct 2015

Mapping knowledge

economies

Genres of research writing

Social

science doctorates