Special Session - It’s A Jungle Safari Out There: An Allegory for Learning to Navigate Academia
One of the key challenges at the beginning of an academic career is learning to live in the university working environment. Interactions between academics can be significantly different to those found in industry; and whilst many of the drivers for the organisation are similar, there are also some a...
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| author | Lindsay, Euan Paterson, K. |
| author2 | Larry Richards |
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| description | One of the key challenges at the beginning of an academic career is learning to live in the university working environment. Interactions between academics can be significantly different to those found in industry; and whilst many of the drivers for the organisation are similar, there are also some aspects that are unique to a university. Being able to successfully navigate through the office politics is exceptionally valuable to academic staff, both new and established. In order to do this, it is essential to understand what motivates both yourself and your colleagues. This workshop will use an African Safari as a metaphor for the academic working environment, allocating animals to represent some of the archetypes that are present within an Engineering department. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-438032017-01-30T15:10:13Z Special Session - It’s A Jungle Safari Out There: An Allegory for Learning to Navigate Academia Lindsay, Euan Paterson, K. Larry Richards New Faculty Departmental dynamics Faculty Development One of the key challenges at the beginning of an academic career is learning to live in the university working environment. Interactions between academics can be significantly different to those found in industry; and whilst many of the drivers for the organisation are similar, there are also some aspects that are unique to a university. Being able to successfully navigate through the office politics is exceptionally valuable to academic staff, both new and established. In order to do this, it is essential to understand what motivates both yourself and your colleagues. This workshop will use an African Safari as a metaphor for the academic working environment, allocating animals to represent some of the archetypes that are present within an Engineering department. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43803 IEEE fulltext |
| spellingShingle | New Faculty Departmental dynamics Faculty Development Lindsay, Euan Paterson, K. Special Session - It’s A Jungle Safari Out There: An Allegory for Learning to Navigate Academia |
| title | Special Session - It’s A Jungle Safari Out There: An Allegory for Learning to Navigate Academia |
| title_full | Special Session - It’s A Jungle Safari Out There: An Allegory for Learning to Navigate Academia |
| title_fullStr | Special Session - It’s A Jungle Safari Out There: An Allegory for Learning to Navigate Academia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Special Session - It’s A Jungle Safari Out There: An Allegory for Learning to Navigate Academia |
| title_short | Special Session - It’s A Jungle Safari Out There: An Allegory for Learning to Navigate Academia |
| title_sort | special session - it’s a jungle safari out there: an allegory for learning to navigate academia |
| topic | New Faculty Departmental dynamics Faculty Development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43803 |