Career Development & Grantsmanship

Academic Careers: Key Issues

• To PhD or not to PhD:

• I wish I knew• If no… what’s next?• If yes…

a. Where?

b. How?

c. Who?

d. When?

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

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

If not PhD’s, where are they?

• 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 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

Where have people gone?

• 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

If PhD… How?

• Coursework Model – North American – Residential – Coursework + Comps + Diss

• Non-coursework Model – Europe & Australia – Nonresidential is possible – Proposal + Diss

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

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

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/

Successful Grantsmanship

Turning Words into Dollars

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

Standard Grants: Multi-disciplinary

• 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

Strategic Themes

• 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’

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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