Career Planning:

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• Career Planning
• Professor Graeme Turner

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What do you want to achieve in the next five
years?

• To be established in your field of specialisation
• Strong publication record with at least one major
  project behind you
• Competitive for external grants
• A major project just ahead

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Obstacles in your path

• Teaching loads
• Uncompetitive track record
• Limited sources of external funds
• Crowded research specialisation
• Lack of mentoring/support
• Unfashionability of research specialisation

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Ways of overcoming them teaching loads

• Dovetailing teaching and research
• Using internal grants to reduce aspects of
  teaching load
• Negotiate your teaching load
• Manage your diary

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Uncompetitive Track Record

• Plan publications activity location and quality
• Pursue collaborations
• Explore Linkage as an entry to ARC funding
• Raise profile conferences (national and
  international), reviews, newspaper op-eds.

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Limited sources of external funds

• Search the SPIN base
• Routinely apply for support, and seek assistance
  in preparing a quality application. Use the
  internal grants system as a means of seed funding
  projects
• Expect to apply 2 or 3 times
• Seek collaboration.

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Crowded research specialisation

• Go where the opportunities are
• Exploit competitive edge
• Expect to change specialisations a number of
  times over your career
• Think strategically and pragmatically

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And then?

• Be visibleconferences, networking opportunities
• Be strategic about topics, publishing outlets and
  who you ask to read your work
• If planning a book, talk to publishers first
• Be prepared to take advice, revise etc.
• Plan your projects and their funding