Non-Academic Careers for STS Graduate Students: Hopping off the Tenure Track
Non-Academic Careers for STS Graduate Students: Hopping off the Tenure Track
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STS 研究生的非学术职业：跳出终身教职轨道
DOI：
10.1007/s11024-018-9360-6
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Foley, Rider
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作者：
Woodson, Thomas S.;Harsh, Matthew;Foley, Rider
科学，技术与社会（STS）研究生课程主要培养研究生从事终身学术工作。然而，并没有足够的终身职位来匹配STS研究生的供应，也不是每个STS研究生都想成为一名学者。作为应对这些挑战的开始，我们在2017年科学社会研究学会年会和2018年ST全球会议之前举办了研讨会。在这些研讨会上，拥有STS和相关领域博士学位，并在政府机构、非营利基金会和行业等非学术教职人员中工作的小组成员强调，学生必须展示他们的技能如何对非学术组织有用。小组成员提供了丰富的故事，讲述他们的STS观点如何支持他们的职业生涯，但大多数人都面临着STS教师的隐性或显性指导，这与他们的职业抱负背道而驰。对话集中在重新构建研究和向潜在雇主传达他们的STS培训如何支持他们未来的职业生涯。与许多参与者产生共鸣的一个要点是，STS研究生项目需要重新思考他们如何推销自己，招募学生，并批判性地反思成功的衡量标准。通过含蓄地引导研究生仅仅走向学术生涯，STS研究生培训将失去对社会产生积极影响的机会。
Science, Technology & Society (STS) graduate programs primarily train graduate students to work in tenure track academic jobs. However, there are not enough tenure track academic jobs to match the supply of STS graduate students, nor does every STS graduate student want to become an academic. As a start to addressing these challenges, we hosted workshops before the 2017 Society for the Annual Meeting of the Society Studies of Science and the 2018 ST Global conference. In those workshops, panelists with PhDs in STS and related fields and working in non-academic faculty careers such as government agencies, non-profit foundations, and industry emphasized that students must showcase how their skills are useful to non-academic organizations. The panelists offered a wealth of stories on how their STS perspective supported their careers, yet most had faced implicit and explicit mentoring from STS faculty that ran counter to their career aspirations. The conversations centered on reframing research and conveying to potential employers how their STS training would support their future careers. A takeaway point that resonated with many participants was the need for STS graduate programs to rethink how they market themselves, recruit students, and critically reflect upon the measures of success. By implicitly steering graduate students solely towards an academic career, STS graduate training will miss an opportunity to make a positive impact on society.
白色空间和暗物质
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发表时间：
2018
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作者：
Michael Mascarenhas
通讯作者：
Michael Mascarenhas