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Bueno, si alguno de los que van a UK a hacer una visita le apetece, aqui lo tiene:

>>>> Erich Kofmel <e.kofmel@SUSSEX.AC.UK> 21/05/2007 11:51 >>>
> Dear all
>
> The "Career Development" workgroup of the European council of doctoral
> candidates and young researchers (Eurodoc) is organising a Eurodoc
> workshop on "European Doctoral Careers: Global, Transsectoral,
> Interdisciplinary" on 14 June 2007 at the University of Sussex at
> Brighton.
>
> We would like to invite some doctoral candidates and/or young
> researchers from other European countries to attend this workshop. We
> are particularly interested in people who study in the UK, but are
> also very familiar with the doctoral education system in their home
> countries; doctoral candidates who are visiting students or similar in
> the UK; or young researchers who finished a doctorate in a European
> country and now work in the UK.
>
> Please circulate this invitation on mailing lists that you think would
> reach such people.
>
> There may be some funding available to cover participants' expenses.
>
> Participants are of course also more than welcome if they can get
> funding for the trip from some other source.
>
> People who would like to participate should please e-mail a short
> outline of their professional and/or doctoral experience (when, where,
> full/part time, what work experience inside or outside the university,
> etc.) to: e.kofmel en sussex.ac.uk
> Thanks.
>
> The workshop title is: "European Doctoral Careers: Global,
> Transsectoral, Interdisciplinary"
>
> Based on previous workshops/roundtables in Strasbourg (2005), Nice
> (2006) and London (2007), as well as the responses to a questionnaire
> that was sent out prior to Nice, we came up with the following agenda
> for the Sussex workshop:
>
> 9.00 Coffee and welcome
>
> 9.30 Keynote speeches (15 minutes each)
>
> - Prof Chris Park, Director of the Graduate School at Lancaster
> University and Senior Associate of the UK Higher Education Academy,
> author of "Redefining the Doctorate": on the importance of the three
> dimensions of mobility - geographic, sectoral, and disciplinary - for
> doctoral candidates and young researchers today
> - Koen van Dam, President of Eurodoc (tbc): summary of Strasbourg,
> Nice and London workshop/roundtable outcomes - getting workshop
> participants up to speed on relevant Eurodoc policy/discussions
>
> 10.00 - 12.00 Session 1: Careers in social sciences and humanities -
> what is different?
>
> Speaker: Linda Buckham, Director of the Career Development and
> Employment Centre at the University of Sussex (tbc) (15 minutes):
> statement of the current "state of the art" in career
> development/transferable skills in the UK
>
> Outline of discussion: We need to resist the danger of romanticising
> "transferable skills/generic skills" and/or the "PhD/doctorate".
> Rather than on ideal career paths or structures we should focus on
> messy real-life careers. Many doctoral candidates bring transferable
> skills from previous work experience/careers INTO their doctorates.
> While Eurodoc stresses the need to treat doctoral candidates as
> professional researchers, many doctoral candidates in social sciences
> and humanities follow more "patchwork" careers. I feel that these
> aspects have not been addressed sufficiently in the Strasbourg, Nice
> and London workshops/roundtables. As the European University
> Association (EUA)'s "Doc-Careers" project (in which Eurodoc
> participates) will have one focus on "economic and social sciences",
> it is warranted to discuss a number of issues in more depth:
> (a) many (if not most) doctoral candidates in the social sciences and
> humanities (and certainly in many other disciplines) do not progress
> unintermittently from the first to the second to the third cycle and
> then into a postdoc or non-academic career - many/most doctoral
> students work all along (often outside of academia)
> ("work-study-work-study-work-study-work" model or "work-and-study"
> model);
> (b) many doctoral candidates in the social sciences and humanities do
> doctorates for "lifestyle" reasons, or out of personal interest, or
> part-time while remaining in their established careers (that they may
> hope to help progress further with a doctorate) - i.e. as part of
> lifelong learning - and most of them will be self-funding;
> (c) the "professional researcher" model does not adequately describe
> the real-life situation of many doctoral candidates in many European
> countries;
> (d) many doctoral candidates in the social sciences and humanities
> (e.g. self-funded, part-time) are not part of a research group (or
> even integrated in a department) and, working in such (perceived)
> isolation, priority must be given to enabling them to acquire
> "researcher" skills (so as to be able to finish their doctorates) as
> over against transferable skills (that they may already possess).
>
> 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break
>
> 13.00 - 15.00 Session 2: What to do after graduating (or dropping out
> of doctoral study)?
>
> Speaker: John Bothwell, Chair of the UK National Research Staff
> Association (postdocs) (tbc) (15 minutes): presentation on
> postdoctoral careers, statistics, and personal experiences
>
> Outline of discussion: Following on from the previous session and
> discussions over lunch, we now need to look at prospects for doctors,
> particularly in the social sciences and humanities, after graduation:
> (e) prospects for doctoral graduates in the social sciences and
> humanities to continue their research outside academia are very
> limited (unlike for doctoral graduates in the natural and life
> sciences and technology);
> (f) at the same time very few non-research jobs (i.e. in the private
> or public sectors or NGOs) demand of applicants that they have done a
> doctorate (outside of academia, there may be no advantage for social
> sciences and humanities doctoral graduates in holding a doctorate
> i.e. starting position/pay isn't higher than if they had only a
> bachelor or masters degree);
> (g) if the number of doctoral candidates in the social sciences and
> humanities is to be increased (as is being spoken of frequently), this
> must go together with clear career prospects for doctoral graduates in
> such disciplines;
> (h) what about the many doctoral candidates who drop out of their
> degree? What careers do they end up in? what should be done to stop
> them from dropping out?
> (i) impact of student debt from undergraduate to doctoral level in
> those European countries where higher education is not free? What
> impact does crippling student debt have on European/global mobility?
> What impact does it have on doctoral graduates' decision to remain in
> or leave academia?
>
> 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
>
> 15.30 - 17.30 Session 3: Skills to be acquired in the doctoral cycle
>
> Speaker: Francis Vella, former President of Eurodoc (15 minutes)
>
> Outline of discussion: Based on the report of the first EUA
> "Doc-Careers" workshop the following issues arose:
> (j) rather than listing a set of transferable skills that doctoral
> graduates are supposed to have acquired (and that are not much
> different from those expected of bachelor graduates), the question
> should be: what skills will doctoral graduates have in addition to
> those that bachelor and masters graduates are also expected to have?
> (k) the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that bachelor students
> in Germany are now less mobile (geographically) than they were before
> the German degrees were broken up into bachelor/masters because
> students feel that they can't afford the time to go abroad during
> their bachelor degrees. Is that something that higher degrees
> (masters, doctoral) should aim for - add an international
> perspective?;
> (l) are doctoral programmes today encouraging inter-/multidisciplinary
> thinking as much as they should? - personally, I don't think so;
> (m) are they sufficiently encouraging doctoral candidates to think of
> different possible careers in academia or outside of it and how to
> plan/prepare for these careers?;
> (n) what impact do current differences between European countries
> have? e. g. where do doctoral programmes provide the most suitable
> transferable skills (by training or otherwise)? Which
> countries/universities are examples of best practice? Do private and
> public sector employers have preferences with regard to
> countries/universities/any of the various European PhD-acquiring
> systems (student, employee, mixed, funded, self-funding, full-time,
> part-time i.e. working in private/public sector to earn the money to
> do a PhD?).
>
> 17.30 - 18.00 Summing up and closure
>
> 18.00 Drinks in the IDS bar (open end)
>
> Please get in touch as soon as possible if you would like to come to
> the workshop so we can sort out travel arrangements and accommodation
> (if necessary): e.kofmel en sussex.ac.uk
>
> I look forward to hearing from you.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Erich Kofmel
> Acting Coordinator, "Career Development" workgroup, Eurodoc