Mentoring and Developing the Next Generation of Researchers

 

Target Group: Postgraduate students, Postdoctoral fellows and Early to Mid-career Academic staff

 

Background: This online presentation will focus on what it means to be a scholar of global standing in the future South African academy. After the presentation the participants will be able to map a longer (5-8 year) intellectual strategy for their scholarly careers.

 

The presentation will address the following:

• What does it mean to be a scholar irrespective of discipline?
• Differentiating between academic time and institutional time
• Thinking about the hierarchies of promotion and academic work .
• Mapping a 5-8 year intellectual project and the role of funding, conferences, sabbaticals and successful postgraduate supervision in formulating the project
• Publishing one's thesis/first book/first academic article
• Scholarly teaching
• Thinking about mentorship, collaborators, co-authors and research teams
• The role of the NRF rating process and/or other external markers of scholarly progress in the life of a scholar

 

 

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