- Title
- Preparing for a career as a researcher
- Creator
- Bourke, Sid; Holbrook, Allyson
- Relation
- An Academic Life: A Handbook for New Academics p. 110-119
- Relation
- https://shop.acer.edu.au/acer-shop/product/A5136BK
- Publisher
- ACER Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- As a new researcher you may have a recent PhD degree but little other research experience. In these circumstances you probably at least have selected a general area as your major research interest. Your task now is to identify the specifics of your continuing research program. Of course, this will not always be the case and you may wish to branch out into a new field within the range of your expertise. In this case you have a larger task - deciding your general research course and then the specifics of where you wish to begin. Alternatively you may be doing a research degree now or in the near future. This puts you in the same position as the PhD graduate who wishes to move into a new field - you first need to select a general area and then the specifics of your intended research program. In either case, how do you go about this? Be an active seeker of information about your area: what research groups or centres are operating at your university and how well are they doing; what is their potential for sustainability, growth and impact; what external networks are available? And make sure there is room in your chosen area for a research program of, say, at least five years for you to establish an ongoing program for yourself.
- Subject
- researchers; research planning; information seeking; academic careers
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932721
- Identifier
- uon:11442
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780864319081
- Language
- eng
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