beyond your phd: looking forward and looking back

Beyond your PhD: Looking forward and looking back

Early Childhood Lecturer

Susanne GarvisSchool of Education and Professional StudiesGriffith University (Gold Coast campus)s.garvis@griffith.edu.au

Teaching/Research

• Research assistant?• Post doc?• Another degree?• Sessional work?• Contract lecturer?

Continuous Appointment Interview

• Need to gather evidence for teaching, research and service

• Scary process! (read university policies and know something about the context)

• My CV• Questions

Work: Good days

Bad day

Find others for support!

• Similar experiences• Same stage in career• Research projects

Every week is different!- You need to be flexible!

Last Week This Week Coming

Submitted 2 external grants 9-5 teaching for masters gifted program

Submitted 2 journal articles School students coming in for enrichment activities

10 hours of face to face teaching

1 higher education class (student)

2 teleconference calls with tender clients

Marked 30 assignments

Managed to return 240 assignments in one lecture

Write a draft paper