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Career Development & Grantsmanship

This guide explores key questions surrounding academic careers, including whether to pursue a PhD. It addresses considerations such as potential salary outcomes, necessary qualifications, and alternative career paths if a PhD is not pursued. Insights into grantsmanship, research roles, and networking opportunities are also covered, highlighting the balance between research, teaching, and service in academia. Whether you’re just starting or already ABD, this resource offers vital information on maximizing your academic career and understanding funding processes essential for research success.

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Career Development & Grantsmanship

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  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

  17. More Questions ???

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