3rd Academic Development Workshop: Workshop on Academic Career Development

Friday 6 - Friday 6 December 2019 Room C42 – Dearing Building, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham University

The workshop will be held from 9.00am to 5.00pm at the Nottingham University Business School on Friday 6 December 2019. The workshop is held in the spirit of friendly sharing of experiences and insights, and so overnight interactions, discussions and sharing of ideas and experiences will be encouraged and expected.

The BAFA Special Interest Group on Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies (AFEE) in collaboration with the Accounting Division at Nottingham University Business School is organising its third academic development workshop. Pursuing an academic career can be satisfying, but also a complex and challenging life experience/journey. In particular, the development and/or transition from a research student (e.g., DBA, PhD and MPhil, etc) to early career (e.g., Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Post-Doctoral Academic, Research Fellow, Teaching Fellow, Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, etc), mid-career (e.g., Associate Professor, Reader, Principal Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, etc) and full senior (e.g., Professor and Professorial Fellow, etc) academic that often involves the need to strike a fair balance among education (e.g., maintaining high quality teaching scores and student satisfaction, supervising a large number of postgraduate and undergraduate students, etc), research & enterprise (e.g., publishing high 3*/4* outputs, supervising PhD/research students and securing large external research grants or enterprise income, etc) and service/citizenship (e.g., taking on administrative/leadership/management/pastoral roles, etc) commitments can be challenging.

Therefore and knowing that an academic career is often peppered with unique challenges and opportunities, this workshop will focus on offering participants insights into, and experiences of, how they may navigate this complex journey more smoothly and successfully. The workshop will include three distinct, but closely linked sessions that that will focus progressively on the transitions to the three main stages (early, mid and senior) academic career development journey. The sessions will be in the form of presentations, discussions and sharing of experiences. The discussions will focus on range of issues, ranging from completing the PhD, preparing a job-market paper/publications, CV/cover letter, attending interviews, completing probation to taking on a major leadership roles, amongst others. Specifically, discussions will centre around the three main roles that academics generally perform: (i) Research and enterprise; (ii) Education – teaching and learning; and (iii) Citizenship/Service – administration, leadership and management.

The list of issues and topics that will be covered include, but not limited to:

Session 1: Transitioning from Research Student to Early Career Academic (e.g., Lecturer, Assistant Lecturer, Post-Doctoral Academic, Research Assistant or Fellow, Teaching Fellow)

Managing student-supervisor relationship and completing the PhD
Gaining teaching experience
Preparing job market paper/publication
Preparing CV/Cover letter and applying for jobs
Preparing and attending interviews
Higher education fellowship applications?
Mentoring, collaborations and co-authors

Session 2: Transitioning from Junior Academic to Mid-Career Academic (e.g., Principal/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, etc)

Teaching and learning issues – handling student feedback, teaching quality, module design
Research – outputs, research grants and enterprise activities
Administration, leadership and management issues
Time management and balancing commitments
Mentoring, collaborations and co-authors
Supervising research students
Continuous professional development, etc

Session 3: Transitioning from a Mid-Career Academic to a Senior Academic (e.g., Professor/Professorial Fellow, etc)

Teaching and learning issues – curriculum design, pedagogy, programme design
Research – outputs, research grants, enterprise activities
Administration, leadership and management issues – taking on leadership roles (e.g., head of department, school roles, etc)
External roles – external examining, journal etc
Academic community and association roles
National and international collaborations
Supervising research students and mentoring junior colleagues
Time management and balancing commitments, etc

The workshop will be delivered by three experienced academics:

Professor Jo Danbolt – University of Edinburgh
Professor Teerooven Soobaroyen – University of Essex
Professor Emmanuel Adegbite – University of Nottingham

Together, they have considerable experience in research (e.g., publishing, reviewing and editing papers in top-tier journals), education/teaching & learning (e.g., undergraduate and postgraduate) and service/citizenship – administration, leadership and management (e.g., department, college/faculty and university level) roles, as well as successfully mentoring a large number of doctoral students and early career academics and researchers, who have gone on to become established academics in their own right.

Target Audience:

The workshop is designed to offer insights and support for all types of academics, especially those in accounting and finance departments in Business and Management Schools. The workshop is, therefore, open to research students, especially those close to completion (e.g., DBA, PhD, MPhil, etc) early career (e.g., Lecturers, Assistant Lecturers, Post-Doctoral Academic, Teaching Fellows, etc) and mid-career academics (e.g., Associate Professors, Principal/Senior Lecturers and Senior Teaching Fellows, etc).

Guest Speakers

On this occasion, we would be welcoming three distinguished guest speakers:

Professor Jo Danbolt, University of Edinburgh Business School
Professor Teerooven Soobaroyen, University of Essex Business School
Professor Emmanuel Adegbite, Nottingham University Business School

Please read the Workshop Flyer for more information on our Guest Speakers.

HOW TO REGISTER

Registration opens: 15 October 2019
Registration closes: 30 November 2019 (midnight)

Fee: £50
Research Students (DBA, MPhil and PhD students): £30

The fee includes lunch and refreshments on 6 December 2019. If you have any specific dietary requirement (e.g., vegetarian, allergies), please specify this during the registration process.

Buying a workshop ticket registers you for this event. Tickets to BAFA conferences are only available to members. To purchase a ticket, log in to your account on the BAFA Membership Portal (https://members.bafa.ac.uk/) and click the 'Purchase Tickets' button. Select the appropriate ticket for the event you want to attend, and follow instructions.

If you are not already a member of BAFA, please sign up for membership at https://members.bafa.ac.uk/signup. Further information on how to register for BAFA events can be found here: http://www.bafa.ac.uk/assets/uploads/conference-workshop-registration.pdf.

BAFA Annual Membership rates: Academic Staff: £30
Unsalaried PhD/MPhil Student or Retired Academic: £15

Participants will also need to cover for the cost of their own travel and accommodation and pay the BAFA membership fees. The event is sponsored by the BAFA AFEE Special Interest Group and the Accounting Division, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham.

Please note that we are unable take payment on the day.

Venue

The workshop will be held in room C42 – Dearing Building, Nottingham University, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1BB.

Transport/Travelling:

Car (Road) - Nottingham can be accessed via different road routes, including the M1, M42 and M69 depending on where you are travelling from.

Train – Nottingham train station is accessible from all major towns and cities across the country (please visit here: https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/).

Bus – Bus Numbers 34, 36 can take you to the Jubilee Campus from the trains station and also From City centre (Old square market, lace market)

Tram: Tram stop is just outside of the train station. Tram (direction to Toton Lane) can take you to the Jubilee campus from the train station. You should get off at QMC (Queen Medical Centre) and walk about 10 minutes to Jubilee campus.

National Express can be taken to Nottingham from all major cities to UK (please visit here: https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/destinations/nottingham)

Accommodation

Hotel accommodation can be booked at the following:

Jubilee Conference Centre (Jubilee Campus, Triumph Road, Nottingham, England, NG7 2TU, United Kingdom). Located inside the campus and very closed to the seminar room.
Orchard Hotel (located in University Park campus, there is free-charge shuttle bus between University Park campus and Jubilee campus)
Attendees can consider the many other hotels in centre of Nottingham City

Have questions or need further information?

If so, then, please direct any enquiries that you may have to:

Dr Karim Sorour
Workshop Organiser
Associate Professor of Accounting
Head of Accounting Subject- Accounting and Financial Management Department
Newcastle Business School
Northumbria University, Newcastle, City Campus
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST

E-mail: afee-sig@bafa.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)191 2274376

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