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Sussex Research Hive Seminar
Tennie Videler
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Vitae
Website www.vitae.ac.ukPGR TipsPGR blog to be launchedResearch staff and careers sectionsRS blog: www.vitae.ac.uk/rsblogUKRSA: www.ukrsa.org.ukevents
Champions the personal, professional and career development of doctoral researchers and research staff.
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Events
Leadership in action 22-25 March
Collaborative researcher 29-31 March
Advancing in academia
Research staff conference 3 November
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Researcher development framework
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What do researchers do?first destinations of doctoral graduates by subject
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doctorates awarded from UK universities in 2007:
~ 300 000 graduated from first degree
~ 14 500 doctoral graduates
~ 8 000 UK domiciled
Source: The Higher Education Statistics Agency
Some numbers:
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Numbers by subject 2003-2007
The numbers per subject varies from single figures up to an average of 735 per year in medicine.
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What do doctoral graduates do?
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Proportion employed as researchers - 35% overall
This varies from 7% for theology to 71% for some biological subjects.
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Numbers employed in the education sector- 49% overall
This varies from 28% for psychology doctoral graduates to 79% of those in modern languages.
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Employed as research staff in higher education- 23%
This varies from 6% for theology to 43% for biology, biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics.
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varies from less than 1% in physics, chemistry, and microbiology to 56% in law.
HE lecturering and teaching 14%
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What do researchers do? career profiles of doctoral graduates
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40 inspirational careers stories
‘My doctorate changed my life. It opened doors, and it also opened my mind. I take on challenges now, in my life and my career, because I have faith in my own abilities.’
Cora Beth Knowles (doctorate in Latin literature)
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What do biomedical science doctoral graduates do?
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Clinical and pre-clinical medicine
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Career profile: Alastair Wilkins
Consultant neurologist and senior lecturer in neurology
‘My doctoral research was useful and a necessity for my current job. I understand the processes of research and some of the workings of higher educational organisations.’
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Pharmacology, toxicology and pharmacy
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Career profile: Catherine Martin
Researcher at the Medical Research Council’s clinical sciences centre
‘Attaining a doctorate gave me an enormous sense of achievement and a tremendous boost in confidence’
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Nursing
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Career profile: John Baker
lecturer at the school of Nursing Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester
‘The doctorate has been pivotal in developing my academic career, as a result of my expertise in this area and collaborations I have started.’
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What do researchers do? doctoral graduate destinations and impact three years on
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Occupational clusters
HE research
non HE research
HE teaching and lecturing
teaching outside HE
other common doctoral occupations
other
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Clusters by qualification
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
HE research occupations
Research (not in HE sector)
Teaching and lecturing in HE
Other teaching occupations
Other common doctoral occupations
Other occupations
Doctoral graduates Masters graduates First degree 1st/2:1
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What are the other doctoral occupations?
This cluster includes:
health professionals (accounting for 18% of the cluster),
functional and production managers and senior officials (25%);
Engineering professionals (14%),
ICT professionals (10%),
business, finance and statistical professional and associate professional roles (15%)
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Occupational cluster by discipline
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Income by discipline
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Recession
Postdoctoral unemployment may rise to 6%
This means 94% of doctoral graduates do find employment
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UK Research Staff Association
The UKRSA provides a collective voice for research staff across the UK by working closely with Vitae to nurture research staff associations and inform policy
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We’re still at the start
in January 2010
volunteers identified at the Vitae research staff conference and members of the NRSA
committee of members of research staff and representatives of stakeholder organisations
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Communities
Support local and regional research staff associations (RSAs)
maintain online social networking resources for research staff (RS)
provide links to resources for RS that are developed by partner organisations
research projects to survey opinion and develop additional resources for use by UK RS
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Policy
Represent the interests and views of RS in interactions with relevant national bodies
Provide input on policy affecting RS
Inform RS of relevant policy issues
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Publications
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A guide to research staff associations
a core resource for anybody wishing to set up an RSA
sell the benefits of an RSA
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Why set up an RSA?
practical support to RS
influence university policy
networking and collaborative opportunities
develop skills of committee members
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Impact: Institutions
RSAs have been consulted on:
Concordat implementation
fixed term contract policy
training needs of research staff (95%!)
RSAs facilitate training and achieve high engagement
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Influencing policy
5 national committees
4 national organisations represented on our committee
invitations to provide the research staff voice at national events
Invitation to Brussels to discuss setting up European RSA
Published two (influential!?) reports on RSAs
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Impact: Committee members
RSA had made RS voice heard (83%)
50% had achieved some level of change
50% acted with more confidence as a researcher
28% enjoyed research more
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Supporting research
RS told us that being a researcher means undertaking great research!
Local RSAs are successful in doing this
UKRSA online communities
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What next?
More research, resources and publications
Regional cooperation
Europe
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Contact me:
www.ukrsa.org.uk
Contact UKRSA: