Pre-Colloquium Post-Doctoral & Early Career Scholars Workshop 2024

Paths to a Meaningful Career

The pre-Colloquium Post-Doctoral & Early Career Scholars Workshop 2023 will take place on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, from 09:00 to 23:00 CEST [Central European Summer Time].
Please note that only accepted applicants are entitled to participate in this workshop!
 

Location

University of Milano-Bicocca
Building U6-Agorà
Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo, 1 | 20126 Milano
Building Plan


To view the original Call for Applications (incl. Convenors), please click on the link at the end of this page.

Program

09:00 – 09:30

SESSION 1 – Opening
Building U6-Agorà, Room P1-28 (first floor)

Moderators: Mélodie Cartel | Online Coordinator: Mattia Martini

09:30 – 10:30

SESSION 2 – Panel: Varieties of Impact and Relevance: Behind the Scenes of Different Career Paths
Building U6, Room P1-28 (first floor)

Moderator: Dirk Deichmann
– Online participants streaming! –

10 minutes each:

  • "Impact through teaching" (Thorsten Grohsjean, Bocconi University, Italy)

  • "Societal Impact" (Christine Moser, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

  • "Scholarly Impact" (Tina Dacin, Queen's University, Canada)
  • "Impact through (Social) Media" (Paolo Aversa, King's College London, UK)
  • "Impact through collaborating with Companies"
    (Deborah Anderson,University of Alberta/University of Alabama, US)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break - Building U6 - Ground floor

11:00 – 12:30

SESSION 2 – Round Table Discussions
Building U6, Room P1-28, P1-22, P1-Terrace (all first floor)

"Balancing Conflicting Demands"
[3 rounds, 20 minutes each]

  • Tension 1: "Career vs. other Interests"
    Facilitator: Thorsten Grohsjean, Bocconi University, Italy

  • Tension 2: "Home Institutions vs. International Peer Community"
    Facilitator: Christine Moser, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

  • Tension 3: "Focus vs. Interdisciplinarity"
    Facilitator: Tina Dacin, Queen’s University, Canada

  • Tension 4: "Studying mainstream Topics vs. Passion Topics"
    Facilitator: Paolo Aversa, King's College London, UK

  • Tension 5: "Looking into all Tensions with online Participants"
    Facilitator: Deborah Anderson,University of Alberta/University of Alabama, US


Plenary summary from each (online) round table

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch break - Building U6 - Ground floor

13:30 – 15:00

SESSION 3 – Developing Identity and Voice: From Current to Aspired CV
Building U6, Room P1-28, P1-22. P1-Terrace (all first floor)

Moderator: Mélodie Cartel | Online Coordinator: Mattia Martini

Interactive format

15:00 – 15:45

Coffee break - Building U6 - Ground floor

15:45 – 17:15

Keynote by Leonhard Dobusch, University of Innsbruck, Austria 
Building U6, Room P0-09

"Openness as a Research Practice"
{together with the PhD Workshop; online participants streaming}
 

20:00 – 23:00

Pre-Colloquium Dinner
ONLY for participants [= convenors, accepted applicants, faculty + invited guests] in the
(1) PhD Workshop and (2) Post-Doctoral & Early Career Scholars Workshop

Location: Fuorimano | Via Roberto Cozzi, 3 | 20125 Milano MI



Convenors: Mélodie Cartel, Dirk Deichmann, Mattia Martini, Francesco G. Paoletti