Secondments in PhDEducation

Corina Balaban coba@edu.au.dkJie Gao jiga@edu.au.dkSue Wright suwr@dpu.dk

Universities in the Knowledge Economy UNIKE@au.dk DPU (Aarhus University)

UNIKE – Universities in the Knowledge EconomyMarie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Project, 2013-17

Research Question:How are processes of creating regional and global knowledge economies (ecologies?) redefining the nature and scope of universities in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Rim?

First aim:A networked group of expertly trained, mobile and independent researchers, able to work in a range of sectors and take new, critical and inter-disciplinary approaches to universities in global knowledge economies in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Rim.

Second aim:To create a cohort of current and future researcher leaders committed and able to develop doctoral education in their own institutions and internationally.

Project Composition

• 6 European Partners (7 professors)

• 12 PhD and 3 Post Doc Fellows – from 15 different countries(plus 4 Associated Fellows from China, Denmark, Austria)

• 21 Associated Partners in Europe and Asia-Pacific– hosting fellows’ secondments and research visits

Fellow-led Work Groups • Prepare for Training workshops• Writing and editing support groups

UNIKE Mentors• Meet at each workshop• Annual review of ‘Research,

Training and Career Plan’ • Contacts for career

development, networking, dissemination etc

Research, Training and Career Plan • Template, 6 month

deadline, annual update

Secondments• Data collection for

own research • Daily work in organisation

and networking in the sector• Additional skills • Task for /giving-back to the organisation

UNIKE 6 Workshopsand 2 InternationalConferences

Insitutional Training courses (each partner has different ECTS requirements)• Own institution‘s PhD training• Partners’ PhD Training Courses available to

UNIKE Fellows (on a specifictopic or in English)

Supervision and Training

Supervisor• Supervise research project• Integrate into institution’s

research milieu• University regulations (upgrades,

periodic reviews, exam procedure)

• Advocate, mediator within the university (e.g.administration of expenses claims)

Secondments

ESR/ER Length of

No. Secondment

Tatyana BajenovaAP3 Academic Cooperation Association, Brussels

Bernd Waechter, Director

4 months

Develop knowledge of think tanks and skills to work in a research consultancy

Janja Komlijenovic CHE Consult, Berlin Uwe Brandenburg 1 monthTo gain knowledge of internationalisation of higher education

Sintayehu Kassaye Alemu

AP28 UNESCO, International Task Force on Teachers for Education for all, Paris

Edem Adubra, Head of Secretary

3 monthsParticipate in education for all programme

Magna Charta Observatory

Carla Salvaterra, Vice Rector of University of Bologna

3 monthsHelp organise annual conference

AP6 Association of Pacific Rim Universities, Singapore

Prof. Christopher Tremewan, Secretary General

1 monthParticipate in APRU on statement of university values

Sina Westa

Host Secondment

SupervisorPurpose

Secondments (cont’d)

PhDs including Secondments

• EU aim – train knowledge workers for industry, not academia

• UNIKE aim – capable of moving between academia and other sectors (industry and ‘socio-economic actors’)1. Site for fieldwork – Learn how to conduct academic research

in organisations2. Experience of how the organisation/sector works3. Reciprocate – feedback something useful to the organisation4. Develop abilities/skills beyond PhD training and useful for

employment inside or outside academia

Corina Balaban

• Doctoral education in Europe and US• CIRGE, University of Washington, USA• March-June 2015• How did I use my secondment– Site for fieldwork– How the centre/US university worked– Developing skills– Giving back

Jie Gao

• Joint Campuses in Mainland China• Sino-Danish Centre, Beijing, China• March-June 2014 and 2015– Operation of SDC– Vantage point for research– Skills acquired– Feedback to SDC

Lessons from Anthropology of Organisations

• Location in a site to gain insight into a field– Where is this organisation within the knowledge ecology?

Strengths/vulnerabilities?– Organisations not discrete – relations and boundaries being made,

reinforced, changed

• Insider/outsider position in organisation– located in day to day work but protecting academic freedom

• Reflexive analysis of positionality among reflexive employees – constant negotiation and adjustment – serendipity

• Ethics – fit in but mark that you are researching all the time, confidentiality among colleagues, avoid becoming a resource in their politics

• Ownership of material, their right to comment, gve feed back orally to secondment supervisor before giving it to them in writing – avoid surprising them.

Thank you

Tak for jeres opmærksomhed

Secondment AgreementBetween Student, Head of Department, Secondment SupervisorARTICLE 1 Dates of SecondmentARTICLE 2 Detailed programme of the training period ARTICLE 3 Description of Secondment taskARTICLE4 Training provided by Secondment Organisation ARTICLE 5 Research - how the secondment helps the thesis research ARTICLE 6 Work arrangementsARTICLE 7 Coordination arrangements between UNIKE Fellow, university supervisor and secondment supervisorARTICLE 8 Confidentiality and other restrictionsARTICLE 9 Rights over research materialARTICLE 10 Employment (by the university not the secondment organisation)ARTICLE 11 Financial supportARTICLE 12 InsuranceARTICLE 13 VisaARTICLE 14 Feedback and EvaluationARTICLE 15 LiabilityARTICLE 16 Dispute resolutionARTICLE 17 Termination

Fellows (Started Aug/Sept 2013)Institute Fellow Country of origin Doctoral /

PostdoctoralAU, Denmark Miguel Lim

Corina BalabanFreya (Jie Gao)Jana Bacevic

PhilippinesRomaniaChinaSerbia

DocDocDocPostdoc

UB, UK Janja KomljenovicQue Anh DangChris Muellerleile

SloveniaVietnamUSA

DocDocPostdoc

RU, UK Katja JonsasCatherine Butcher

FinlandSaint Lucia, West Indies

DocDoc

LU, Slovenia Kassaye Alemu SintayehuSina Westa

EthiopiaGermany

DocDoc

Porto, Portugal Benedikte CustersVanja Ivosevic

BelgiumCroatia

DocDoc

ENS, France Tatyana Bajenova Uzbekistan Doc

WP 1 Concepts and theories

• Que Anh Dang: ASEM meetings and HE ‘policy travel’ from Europe to Asia. Bristol University, (Roger Dale)

• Kassaye Alemu Sintayehu: Internationalisation of higher education in centres and peripheries. Ljubljana University, (Pavel Zgaga)

• Jie Gao: Conjunction of Chinese and Danish partners in the design and teaching of the Sino-Danish Centre. Aarhus University, (Sue Wright)

• Sina Westa: Academic values between globalisation and globalism. Ljubljana University, (Pavel Zgaga)

• Corina Balaban: Comparing European and US flagship programmes for doctoral education. Aarhus University, (Sue Wright)

WP 2 Trends and developments)

• Janja Komljenovic: Mapping the field of higher education industries, and choosing case studies. Bristol University (Susan Robertson)

• Miguel Lim: Audit culture and the industries of ranking. Aarhus University (Sue Wright)

• Tatyana Bajenova: Think Tanks and Academic Entrepreneurs in the Production of Knowledge. ENS de Lyon (Cecile Robert)

• Chris Muellerleille: New landscapes of publishing and knowledge dissemination. Bristol University (Susan Robertson)

• Jana Bacevic: Academic entrepreneurialism, civil society and democracy. Aarhus University (Sue Wright)

WP 3 Policies and practices

• Vanja Ivosevic: Governance through autonomy – A context-rich comparative study. University of Porto, (António M. Magalhães)

• Catherine Butcher: Alternative ownership, finance and organisation of universities. Roehampton University (Rebecca Boden)

• Katja Jonsas: Management and gender. Roehampton University (Rebecca Boden)

• Benedikte Custers: Impact of governance changes on the educational categories and internal life of universities. University of Porto (António M. Magalhães)

• Rebecca Lund: The conditions and characteristics of academic work. Aarhus University (Sue Wright)

UNIKE Workshops and Summer SchoolsEvent Scientific Training Complementary

skillsAspects of Doctoral Education

Copenhagen, Oct 2013

Global processes and regional spaces

International networking and collaboration

History of policy debates about doctoral education in Europe and USA

Bristol, Feb 2014 Ranking and governance

Publishing in different genres

Working/ researching in organisations

Ljubljana, July 2014 Policy travel Entrepreneurship and grants

Partners’ own practices

Roehampton,Sept 2014

Management technologies

International conferences

Academic Freedom

Waiheke, NZJan 2015

Research methodologies

Reviewing articles and commenting

Student-led writing groups

Porto, July 2015 Figures on the HE landscape

Writing abstracts for scientific papers

Governance narratives

Tba, Oct 2015 Mapping knowledge economies

Genres of research writing

Social science doctorates