Speaker: Professor Lynn McAlpine (https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/person/lynn-mcalpine/)

Lynn McAlpine is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and Development. She is internationally recognized for her research, conducted in the UK, Europe and Canada, into PhD and post-PhD career trajectories both in and outside the academy.

Lynn receives frequent international invitations to do workshops and keynotes that explore the implications of the research both from pedagogical and policy perspectives.       

Agenda

In today’s world, we need a reframing of academic careers given the emerging evidence. As in other organizations globally, careers are no longer constituted in a series of institutionally based stages, but rather through an ongoing process of self-authoring as individuals negotiate life and work goals within the many shifting and sometimes turbulent structural forces at play in higher education. In this session, Lynn will present some of the evidence for this argument as well as explore the practical implications for academics in advancing their careers. The…