Workshop: Non-Academic Careers for STS Scholars

本次研讨会将是2017年在波士顿举行的科学社会研究（4S）会议的会前活动。它将帮助准备科学，技术和社会（STS）研究生考虑，申请和成功的非学术工作。传统上，研究生在学术界以外的职业生涯中接受最少的指导，而这个研讨会旨在扩大大学环境之外的指导机会。这个研讨会将让学生接触到终身教职工作之外的其他职业。通过为STS研究生提供技能和策略，本次研讨会将帮助STS最大限度地扩大其社会影响，通过扩大STS毕业生的途径进入工业，政府和非营利部门的工作。为期一天的研讨会将为STS研究生和教师提供与STS学者互动和网络的机会，这些学者已经成功地过渡到非学术职业。它将设有一系列小组，来自政府，工业和非营利部门的发言者。演讲者将讨论非学术简历，面试，网络，工作机会和成功的非学术职业所需的技能。研讨会将讨论STS学者如何过渡到学术界以外的职业生涯，并在工业，政府和非营利部门具有竞争力。讲习班参加者：毕业生、教师和非学术人员将有机会探讨目前的STS课程如何支持/阻碍非学术职业，并提出改善非学术职业培训的策略。研讨会将培养这三个群体之间的共享学习的环境，以制定一份报告，反映STS学者的当前和未来的课程需求。

This workshop will be a pre-conference event at the 2017 Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting in Boston, MA. It will help prepare Science, Technology and Society (STS) graduate students to consider, apply and succeed in non-academic jobs. Traditionally, graduate students receive minimal mentoring for careers outside of academia and this workshop is designed to broaden the mentoring opportunities beyond the university environment. This workshop will expose students to alternative careers outside of tenure-track jobs. By providing skills and strategies to STS graduate students this workshop will help STS maximize its societal impact by expanding STS graduates pathways into work in industry, government and the nonprofit sector.The one day workshop will provide STS graduate students and faculty the opportunity to interact and network with STS scholars that have successfully transitioned into non-Academic careers. It will feature a series of panels with speakers from government, industry, and non-profit sectors. The speakers will discuss non-academic resumes, interviewing, networking, job opportunities and the skill sets necessary to have successful non-academic careers. The workshop will address how STS scholars have made the transition to careers outside of academia, and have become competitive in industry, government and non-profit sectors. Workshop participants: graduates students, faculty and non-academics will have the opportunity to explore how the current STS curriculum supports/hinders non-academic careers and suggest strategies to improve training for non-academic careers. The workshop will cultivate an environment of shared learning among these three groups in order to develop a report that reflects on the current and future curriculum needs of STS scholars.