Career Development & Grantsmanship

1. Career Development & Grantsmanship

2. 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?

3. 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 

4. 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

5. 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 not PhD’s, where are they?

6. 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

7. 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 Where have people gone?

8. If PhD… How? • Coursework Model – North American – Residential – Coursework + Comps + Diss • Non-coursework Model – Europe & Australia – Nonresidential is possible – Proposal + Diss

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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/

12. Successful Grantsmanship Turning Words into Dollars

13. 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

14. 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 Standard Grants: Multi-disciplinary

15. 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’ Strategic Themes

16. 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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