Teaching, Research, and Service Activities and Preferences in the Work Lives of New Zealand Early Career Academics

2017 ◽  
pp. 59-93
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
Teaching Research

WORKSHOP FOR EARLY CAREER GEOSCIENCE FACULTY: TEACHING, RESEARCH, AND MANAGING ONE’S CAREER

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel J. Beane ◽  
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R. Heather Macdonald ◽  
Richelle M. Allen-King ◽  
Tessa M. Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
Teaching Research

scholarly journals Coping with emotion in New Zealand Business schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alice Scahill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Specific Level ◽  
Systemic Factors ◽  
Emotional Demands ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Using Data

<p>Emotion is an integral aspect of organisational life and this thesis examines the emotional demands that academics experience in their workplace and the consequences this has for them. At a more specific level, the thesis examines the strategies that academics use to cope with these emotional demands, and how these strategies develop and change over the duration of their career. Using data collected from interviews with academics from business schools across the New Zealand tertiary education sector, findings are presented which demonstrate how academics develop coping strategies and how the organisation provides support. The implications from these findings could have significant effects for organisational practice. Firstly, these findings illustrate that academics experiences emotion in relation to personal, interpersonal, and systemic factors. Secondly, academics adopt a wide array of coping strategies, which have been personally developed by each individual over time. They are not given any organisational training or support for their development of these strategies. In addition, academics use coping strategies both in the workplace and at home in order to attempt to mitigate the negative impacts of the emotional demands of their roles. Finally, academics in their early career lack adequate coping strategies, and appear to have the lowest levels of organisational commitment.</p>

scholarly journals First person – Natalí Delorme and Leonardo Zamora

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Early Career ◽  
New Method ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Natalí Delorme and Leonardo Zamora are co-first authors on ‘ A new method to localise and quantify oxidative stress in live juvenile mussels’, published in BiO. They are both researchers in the laboratory of Serean Adams at the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand. Natalí's research interests centre around ecophysiology of marine invertebrates, particularly on the organisms' stress response. Leonardo is investigating the biology of commercially, ecologically and culturally relevant marine invertebrates throughout their life cycle.

scholarly journals Career Complexity No Longer on the Rise: Comparing Early- and Mid-Career Complexity Across the 1930s thru 1980s Birth Cohorts in Sweden

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Westerman ◽  
Dirk Witteveen ◽  
Erik Bihagen ◽  
Roujman Shahbazian
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Initial Increase ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Average Complexity ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Gender Convergence

There is a wide-spread idea that contemporary careers continue to become ever more complex. Pioneering research of full-career complexity has shown that work lives have indeed become more complex, yet at modest increasing pace. This paper examines whether career complexity continues to increase using Swedish registry data across an exceptionally long time period, including younger cohorts than in previous research: up to those born in 1983. The full early- and midcareers of selected birth cohorts cover several macroeconomic booms and downturns, a long period of upskilling of the Swedish labor force, as well as the convergence of working hours of women and men. The following conclusions are drawn using state-of-the-art methods of measuring career complexity. For early-careers, an increasing complexity trend is evident between the 1950s and 1960s birth cohorts, yet complexity fluctuates around a stable trend for the 1970s birth cohorts and onward. For mid-careers, which are considerably more stable on average, complexity has decreased among women born between the 1930s and the early-1950s. However, the opposite trend holds true for men, resulting in gender convergence of complexity. We observe a standstill of the mid-career complexity trend across both genders, followed by a modest decline for the last observed cohorts. Subsequent analyses point to educational expansion as an important driver of the initial increase of early-career complexity. Taken together, our analysis affirms an initial shift to more career complexity in the 20th century, yet we find no unidirectional trend toward more career complexity over the last decades.

scholarly journals Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC): A MARK of Curation Excellence

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e26283
Author(s):  
Peter Jobson ◽  
Joanne Birch ◽  
Gillian Brown ◽  
Jeremy J. Bruhl ◽  
Lyn Cave ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Vascular Type ◽  
Herbarium Collections

Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a sub-committee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) and provides advice and recommendations pertaining to the management of herbarium collections. It was formed in 2009 based initially on Australian herbaria, and later incorporated New Zealand herbaria. MAHC currently has 18 member institutions representing both government funded, and university based herbaria, and includes both the largest (National Herbarium of Victoria - MEL) and smallest collections (Macquarie University - MQU) in the region. The group meets in person annually, and holds regular conference phone calls throughout the year. MAHC has proved itself to be a very cohesive committee, despite time, sizing, staffing, and funding differences. It prides itself in being inclusive, cooperative, collegiate, collaborative and supportive. It has a strong mentor approach toward early career collections managers or those new to collections management. The group has a healthy forward planning outlook, developing, promoting and implementing collections management policy, recommendations, guidelines and standards. This cohesion has resulted in a toolkit of resources that are freely available and strives for a unified world class best practice herbarium curation. Some of these universally agreed tools include templates, biosecurity documents, disaster mitigation and preparation for Nagoya Protocol implementation for Australia and New Zealand. MAHC supports new international initiatives and manages the day to day running of programmes such as the Global Plants Initiative project imaging all vascular type specimens housed in Australasia. MAHC collaborates with CHAH and the data sub-committee, HISCOM (Herbarium Information Systems Committee), for continued improvements in sharing digital data and specimens via the Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH https://avh.chah.org.au/) and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA https://www.ala.org.au/) services. This talk will use examples to highlight the effectiveness and success of a unified group in: developing standard practice in curation, incorporating improved curation procedures, and its ability to be agile, responding to incidents at an international level.

Integrative career counselling for early career individuals

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacobus G Maree
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Changing Times

This article reports on integrative career counselling for early career individuals. This approach and intervention involve the elicitation and use of individuals’ multiple smaller career-life stories (qualitative assessment and intervention) and their scores on tests (quantitative assessment). The aim is to help them make important choices in their career-lives in collaboration with their career counsellors in rapidly changing times and work contexts. In the end, career counsellors and these individuals are enabled to devise life and career projects that enable early career individuals to make meaning in their work-lives, make social contribution, and experience a sense of self-worth and purpose in their career-lives. Using the approach within the current South African situation could enhance entrepreneurship and promote self-entrepreneurship and employability. Future longitudinal research, including multiple case and quantitative studies on the topic is needed. Such research could potentially implement different assessment instruments and include questionnaires to facilitate pre- and post-assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention.

scholarly journals Practising Pacific pedagogies during New Zealand's level four lockdown: Pacific early career academics and COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 149-161
Author(s):  
Patrick Saulmatino Thomsen ◽  
Litia Tuiburelevu ◽  
Moeata Keil ◽  
Marcia Leenen-Young ◽  
Sisikula Palu Sisifa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Delivery Methods ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Innovative Solutions

During New Zealand’s unprecedented level-four lockdown, opportunities to practise Pacific pedagogies in New Zealand universities required creative and innovative solutions from Pacific academics. This paper brings together the experiences of teaching during this lockdown from a cross-section of Pacific Early Career Academics (PECA) across a wide range of disciplines and schools at New Zealand’s largest university. This paper argues that despite the challenges, PECA found ways to adapt Pacific pedagogical concepts through online delivery methods; however, their ability to effectively do this was severely influenced by existing socio-economic inequities that disproportionately impacted Pacific students. PECA continued to nurture the vā/wā with students in innovative ways, but they still encountered major challenges that will require more careful consideration of equity issues by New Zealand universities moving forward.

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