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Dr Jennifer Allanson
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- Jennifer
- Surname
- Allanson
- Gender
- Female
- Date record last updated
- Monday 19 July 2010
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- East of England; London; Midlands; North West; Scotland and Northern Ireland; South East; South West and Wales; Yorkshire and North East
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- Job title:
- Honorary Lecturer/ Freelance Trainer
- Current institution:
- LJMU
- Relevant qualifications:
- PhD in Computer Science.
- Personal profile:
- A successful academic with an international research profile, Jen has been passionate about the development of early career researchers since being one herself in the late 1990s. She has been involved with Vitae (formerly UK Grad) for 9 years and during that time has delivered material and facilitated training on over 40 national and local postgraduate training courses. She has extensive teaching experience and has designed, developed and delivered targeted training for postgraduate researchers at institutions across the UK. She is motivated by the desire for early career researchers get the very best out of the opportunity afforded by time spent in academia.
For those wishing to build successful academic careers this means general research skills training, presentation and communication skills, professional networking and employability skills training (incl. academic CVs and mock interviews). She has also been involved in both mentoring and one-to-one coaching of newly appointed academic staff.
For those wishing to use their time in academia as a stepping stone to something else she has previously carried out skills auditing, examined alternative forms of presentation and promotion and run short courses on entrepreneurship.
- Biography:
- Jen left school age 15 with few formal qualifications. Driven by the desire to understand how beliefs shape what happens in our lives she embarked on a period of practical exploration. She undertook a wide range of jobs over the next 8 years including positions in retail, licensing, customer service, legal administration, tourism and outdoor pursuits. In the early 90s she studied Engineering and by 2000 had a PhD in Computer Science. She became the first full-time female lecturer in Computer Science at Lancaster University and in 2003 she moved to a senior lectureship in The School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at LJMU. She currently holds an honorary lectureship in The School of Psychology.
Jen attended her first GRADschool in Stirling in 1999. She returned in 2000 as a mentor. Since then she has tutored regularly on both the national and regional GRAD programmes.
She resigned from her full-time academic position in 2004 to concentrate on researcher training and development. She initially secured a year-long contract with the multi-award-winning Careers and Employability Division at Manchester University where she developed training materials for early career researchers. Since then Jen has worked successfully with universities across the UK developing and delivering researcher training programmes.
- Audience:
- Careers service personnel
- Postgraduate researchers
- Postgraduate skills trainers
- Principal investigators
- Research staff
- Senior staff in HE
- Staff developers/trainers
- Supervisors
- Type of work:
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Research into skills development
- Training delivery
- Training design and development
- Subject areas:
- Career development
- Enterprise and entrepreneurship
- Evaluation and feedback mechanisms
- Interpersonal skills development
- Outreach and public engagement
- Preparation for academic practice, including teaching
- Project management
- Research methods
- Research relating to skills and career development
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