Career Development Workshop 4.-6.5.2009
The Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies organizes a career development workshop at Christina Institute, University of Helsinki on May 4-6, 2009.
Course is titled:
To become a Gender Studies/feminist professional? Career exploratory workshop and professional outlets of Gender Studies
Deadline for application:
March 16, 2009
The workshop will explore what it means to become a professional in Women’s/Gender/Feminist Studies (shorthand: Gender Studies) and pursue a career with this field as background. The point of departure is the development of Gender Studies into a recognized academic field. Gender Studies can, today, in many countries, be studied as part of an academic degree, and in some countries such as ao Sweden and Finland, it is for example also possible to get a PhD degree in Gender Studies. Against the background of this development, the workshop will put focus on issues of professionalization, qualifications, employability and career expectations.
It will present results of recent EU-funded research on employment of Gender Studies candidates, and it will discuss questions such as: What is a career? How do you pursue a career? What is a career path? How do you get “in”? What do you do when you are “in”? A combination of lectures, panels, Forum Theatre/role play sessions will give input to broad discussions of possible careers in a range of different settings both inside and outside of Academia and in both public and private sector jobs. Ways to navigate in-between different academic, public and private sector career paths will also be discussed, as well as the issue of expectations, values and visions of Gender Studies candidates.
The workshop is open both to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, interested in the question of professional outlets of Gender Studies.
(Max 20 participants.)
Venue:
Christina Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland
Teachers:
Professor Gabriele Griffin, University of York
Professor Nina Lykke, Linköping University
Doctoral Student Mia Liinason, University of Lund
Doctoral Student Maija Urponen, Helsinki University
Julkaistu 11.02.09