Professionals/mature age candidates doing PhD: The challenges and benefits of being a two hat academic

Professionals/mature age candidates doing PhD: The challenges and benefits of being a two hat academic

Principal speaker

Professor Catherine Pickering

Some people commence their PhD with considerable professional and personal experiences. In the two hour workshop we will share experiences and information about the challenges and benefits for such candidates and how to design projects to both facilitate career transitioning as well as capitalize on existing knowledge and skills.

The workshop will start with some background about how many and who undertakes PhD with professional backgrounds, the experience of others, and strategies for designing the PhD to utilize such backgrounds as well as dealing with sometimes feeling of otherness.

Positive feedback from those participating in this workshop last year:

"So useful to get guidance relevant to people who have not just come straight from school, to uni, to HDR studies. I particularly liked how it encourages us to consider ways to capitalise on our lived experiences and expertise in out PhDs. I also liked connecting with other like-minded students in similar situations."

"Hearing peer experiences, starting to connect with a cohort, Professor Catherine's advice and insights"


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