Developing your Academic Identity as a Mid-Career Researcher

• Maximum numbers of participants: 35 
• This event is for social science mid-career researchers (usually people on Grades 8 or 9)

Being a mid-career researcher has been described as ‘the muddle in the middle’ and a turbulent period characterised as a perfect storm of increased work responsibilities and autonomy and reduced structured support. A key pressure often felt is the need to develop a distinct academic/research identity, which can inform future career decisions. This can be both exciting and a challenge.

This participatory workshop will use creative methods (e.g., mapping, future-self work) and small group discussion to provide a useful and stimulating space in which to consider and reflect on: your career to date and your evolving academic/research identity; the challenges and how to create opportunities to shape your academic/research identity; how to balance becoming focused on specific research areas and methods with being flexible in your research career to enhance grant capture/employability; and your future academic-self.   

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• This workshop has been convened. and will be led by, Pavel Bukowski and Zsofia Demjen (CSSD Mid-Career Researchers Coordinating Group) and Carey Jewitt (Chair of UCL Collaborative Social Science Domain)
   
•  This workshop has been made possible with funding from UCL’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account