B1 - Academic, research and teaching recruitment trends - An insight into UK & Ireland higher education labour market
| Day | Day 1 |
|---|---|
| Session | B |
| Start time | 16:30 |
| Strand | Researcher developers |
| Code | B1 |
| Presenters |
Alison Osborne, Marketing Officer, jobs.ac.uk Alison Mitchell, Director of Development, Vitae Jen Reynolds, Vitae and CRAC Partnerships Manager, Vitae |
Workshop outline
With a jobs market which is becoming more challenging and hyper competitive post-PhD, it is important to understand the labour market for early career researchers to ensure that the support and advice we are offering PhD candidates is adapting to the changing environment? An analysis of the types of jobs being advertised for early career researchers and the career destinations of early career researchers can help to understand career opportunities and progression pathways.
In this workshop we will present the results of an in-depth study conducted by jobs.ac.uk along with a review of the Vitae ‘What do researchers do?’ analysis of career destinations outside of academia as a foundation for consideration of how best we can prepare early career researchers for their careers in the current job market. jobs.ac.uk will outline the results of an in-depth study of the 53,000 job adverts placed by UK and Irish higher education institutions on our job board during 2015.
The jobs.ac.uk report covers a wide range of labour market information across all kinds of academic, research and teaching roles to help higher education institutions, jobseekers and researcher developers understand the reality and opportunity of future career paths for early career researchers. In collaboration with Vitae, jobs.ac.uk will present the key findings of the report (but you can take away the full report on the day) and Vitae will present some of the key challenges researchers face when deciding what to do next (Vitae latest publication ‘What do research staff do next’ is available at the conference).
We will seek input from workshop participants to put our findings into the context of their own roles and experiences, followed by an interactive session analysing job adverts against core competencies in the Vitae Researcher Development Framework to provide insights into how to help researchers prepare for their next career move.
Workshop topics
Participants will gain
- Insights into the current UK & Irish HE labour market including average salaries, peak recruitment times, locations, discipline trends, temporary/permanent, full time and part-time roles
- Analysis of the career destinations in Vitae series ‘what researchers do?’ career destinations of early career researchers
- Understanding of the mapping of competencies of the Vitae Researcher Development Framework against a wide range of current job descriptions and what competencies recruiters are looking for in a candidate.
Workshop themes covered
- Developing a pipeline of research talent, including widening participation, strategies to attract and retain research talent, and approaches to mainstreaming equality and diversity for researchers in the research environment
- Evaluation and impact studies of researchers’ careers to further our understanding and knowledge of the researcher career landscape in UK and internationally
Workshop outcomes
By the end of the workshop participants will have:
- an awareness of the UK & Irish HE labour market
- identified some examples of competencies recruiters are looking for
- taken away some ideas of how you can help PhD candidates prepare for the competitive job market
Format
Presentation, polls, group discussion
