Making UU attractive to researchers: A seminar and panel debate on career paths for junior researchers
- Date: –15:30
- Location: Humanistiska teatern
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- Organiser: Junior Faculty
- Contact person: Laia Caja
- Seminarium
Making UU attractive to researchers: A seminar and panel debate on career paths for junior researchers
Academic career paths are not always a straight line to tenure track. In this seminar and panel debate we will discuss how academic career paths can be more attractive from a Swedish point of view an taking into consideration an international perspective.
Date: 11th October (13.00-15:30)
Place: Humanistiska teatern
Agenda
13:00-13:15 – Event presentation
· Presentation of Junior Faculty (JF) by Lisa Börjesson (JF Vice-Chair)
· Presentation of Uppsala University Postdoc association (UUPA) by Aikeremu Ahemaiti (UUPA Chair)
· Career paths at UU – forms of employment and examples by Theodora Kunovac Kallak (JF Chair).
13:15-13:30 –Anders Hagfeldt (UU Vice-chancellor).
13:30-13:45 – “Stress, uncertainty, and research opportunity for Early Career Researchers: is it getting better or worse over time?” by Grant Kemp (National Junior Faculty presentation Chair).
13:45-14:00 – Break
14:00-14:20 – "Developing career and research assessment - metrics or narrative?”
by Marika Edoff (Professor in Solid State Electronics, UU; and member of the Guild).
14:20-14:40 – “What makes for attractive career paths – international evidence”
by Jürgen Janger (Senior Economist at WIFO).
14:40-15:20 Panel debate “Career paths – potentials for development and future prospects” moderated by Ingrid Berg (Project Coordinator at CIRCUS) with:
- Prof. Anders Hagfeldt (UU Vice-chancellor)
- Prof. Coco Norén (UU Deputy Vice-Chancellor)
- Eliane Forsse (UU HR director)
- Erika Dabhilkar (UU head of the Division for Internationalization)
- Prof. Marika Edoff (Professor in Solid State Electronics, UU; and member of the Guild)
- Grant Kemp (NJF Chair, Researcher SU)
- Jürgen Janger (Senior Economist at WIFO)
- Theodora Kunovac Kallak (Associate senior Lecturer, UU-JF Chair)
15:20-15:30 Concluding remarks
To register: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/62057