Career Trajectories to Creative Leadership

For young people, the end of secondary school represents a critical transition point. This article aims at understanding how schools support a particular group of disadvantaged students to transition into education, training, or employment. Drawing on a life-course perspective and with refugee-background African students as an empirical focus, this qualitative case study documents career support practices in nine government schools in the State of Victoria. The findings show that schools provide transition opportunities that support African students to envision their post-school educational and career trajectories. The arrangements include career planning, alternative pathways, and employment of community engagement officers. However, there are persisting challenges that impede this group of students from fully benefiting from these arrangements. The main barriers identified here are academic disengagement, doxic aspirations, misconceptions about qualifications, and low self-efficacy. The article also argues that the persistence of these challenges is attributable at least in part to such overlooked factors of engagement as institutional practices, student agency, and home environment.

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Accelerating learning healthcare system development through embedded research: Career trajectories, training needs, and strategies for managing and supporting embedded researchers

Healthcare ◽

10.1016/j.hjdsi.2020.100479 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

pp. 100479

Author(s):

Elizabeth M. Yano ◽

Adam Resnick ◽

Michael Gluck ◽

Harry Kwon ◽

Kamila B. Mistry

Keyword(s):

Healthcare System ◽

System Development ◽

Training Needs ◽

Research Career ◽

Career Trajectories ◽

Learning Healthcare System

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Pioneers in International Administration: A Prosopography of the Directors of the League of Nations Secretariat

New Global Studies ◽

10.1515/ngs-2018-0039 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 190-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Torsten Kahlert

Keyword(s):

International Organizations ◽

Large Scale ◽

Second World War ◽

League Of Nations ◽

World War ◽

Clear Trend ◽

Organizational Contexts ◽

Career Trajectories ◽

Second World ◽

Over Time

AbstractThis article investigates interwar internationalism from the perspective of the highest personnel of the first large-scale international administration, the League of Nations Secretariat. It applies a prosopographical approach in order to map out the development of the composition of the group of the section directors of the Secretariat over time in terms of its social and cultural characteristics and career trajectories. The analysis of gender, age, nationality, as well as educational and professional backgrounds and careers after their service for the League’s Secretariat gives insight on how this group changed over time and what it tells us about interwar internationalism. I have three key findings to offer in this article: First, the Secretariat was far from being a static organization. On the contrary, the Secretariat’s directors developed in three generations each with distinct characteristics. Second, my analysis demonstrates a clear trend towards professionalization and growing maturity of the administration over time. Third, the careers of the directors show a clear pattern of continuity across the Second World War and beyond. Even though the careers continued in different organizational contexts, the majority of the directors remained closely connected to the world of internationalism of the League, the UN world and its surrounding organizations. On a methodological level, the article offers an example of how prosopographical analysis can be used to study international organizations.

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The Effects of Professor Gender on the Postgraduation Outcomes of Female Students

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/0019793921994832 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 001979392199483

Author(s):

Hani Mansour ◽

Daniel I. Rees ◽

Bryson M. Rintala ◽

Nathan N. Wozny

Keyword(s):

Air Force ◽

Gender Gap ◽

United States Air Force ◽

Postgraduate Education ◽

Female Students ◽

Air Force Academy ◽

Career Trajectories ◽

Bachelor's Degrees ◽

Scientists And Engineers ◽

Potential Determinant

Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) bachelor’s degrees, more than 70% of scientists and engineers are men. The authors explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected data on the career trajectories of United States Air Force Academy students. Specifically, they examine the effects of being assigned female math and science professors on occupation choice and postgraduate education. The results indicate that, among high-ability female students, being assigned a female professor leads to substantial increases in the probability of working in a STEM occupation and the probability of receiving a STEM master’s degree.

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