Secondments in PhD
Education
Corina Balaban coba@edu.au.dk
Jie Gao jiga@edu.au.dk
Sue Wright suwr@dpu.dk
Universities in the Knowledge Economy UNIKE@au.dk
DPU (Aarhus University)
UNIKE – Universities in the Knowledge Economy
Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Project, 2013-17
Research Question:
How are processes of creating regional and global knowledge
economies (ecologies?) redefining the nature and scope of universities
in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Rim?
First aim:
A networked group of expertly trained, mobile and independent
researchers, able to work in a range of sectors and take new, critical
and inter-disciplinary approaches to universities in global knowledge
economies in Europe and the Asia-Pacific Rim.
Second aim:
To create a cohort of current and future researcher leaders committed
and able to develop doctoral education in their own institutions and
internationally.
Project Composition
• 6 European Partners (7 professors)
• 12 PhD and 3 Post Doc Fellows – from 15 different countries
(plus 4 Associated Fellows from China, Denmark, Austria)
• 21 Associated Partners in Europe and Asia-Pacific
– hosting fellows’ secondments and research visits
Supervision and Training
Insitutional Training courses (each partner has
different ECTS requirements)
• Own institution‘s PhD training
• Partners’ PhD Training Courses available to
UNIKE Fellows (on a specific
topic or in English)
Fellow-led Work Groups
• Prepare for Training workshops
• Writing and editing support groups
Supervisor
Research, Training and
Career Plan
• Template, 6 month
deadline, annual
update
• Supervise research project
UNIKE 6 Workshops
• Integrate into institution’s
and 2 International
research milieu
Conferences
• University regulations (upgrades,
periodic reviews, exam procedure)
Secondments
• Advocate, mediator within the
• Data collection for
university (e.g.administration of UNIKE Mentors
own research
•
Meet at each workshop
expenses claims)
• Daily work in organisation
• Annual review of ‘Research,
and networking in the sector
Training and Career Plan’
• Additional skills
• Contacts for career
• Task for /giving-back to the organisation
development, networking,
dissemination etc
Secondments
Secondments (cont’d)
ESR/ER
Host
No.
Tatyana Bajenova
AP3 Academic
Cooperation
Association, Brussels
Janja Komlijenovic CHE Consult, Berlin
Secondment
Supervisor
Length of
Purpose
Secondment
Bernd Waechter,
Director
4 months
Uwe Brandenburg
1 month
AP28 UNESCO,
Sintayehu Kassaye International Task Force Edem Adubra, Head of
3 months
Alemu
on Teachers for
Secretary
Education for all, Paris
Carla Salvaterra, Vice
Magna Charta
Rector of University of 3 months
Observatory
Bologna
Sina Westa
AP6 Association of
Prof. Christopher
Pacific Rim Universities, Tremewan, Secretary 1 month
Singapore
General
Develop knowledge of
think tanks and skills to
work in a research
consultancy
To gain knowledge of
internationalisation of
higher education
Participate in education
for all programme
Help organise annual
conference
Participate in APRU on
statement of university
values
PhDs including Secondments
• EU aim – train knowledge workers for industry, not
academia
• UNIKE aim – capable of moving between academia and
other sectors (industry and ‘socio-economic actors’)
1. Site for fieldwork – Learn how to conduct academic
research in organisations
2. Experience of how the organisation/sector works
3. Reciprocate – feedback something useful to the
organisation
4. Develop abilities/skills beyond PhD training and useful
for employment inside or outside academia
Corina Balaban
•
•
•
•
Doctoral education in Europe and US
CIRGE, University of Washington, USA
March-June 2015
How did I use my secondment
– Site for fieldwork
– How the centre/US university worked
– Developing skills
– Giving back
Jie Gao
• Joint Campuses in Mainland China
• Sino-Danish Centre, Beijing, China
• March-June 2014 and 2015
– Operation of SDC
– Vantage point for research
– Skills acquired
– Feedback to SDC
Lessons from Anthropology of Organisations
• Location in a site to gain insight into a field
– Where is this organisation within the knowledge ecology?
Strengths/vulnerabilities?
– Organisations not discrete – relations and boundaries being made,
reinforced, changed
•
Insider/outsider position in organisation
– located in day to day work but protecting academic freedom
• Reflexive analysis of positionality among reflexive employees – constant
negotiation and adjustment – serendipity
• Ethics – fit in but mark that you are researching all the time,
confidentiality among colleagues, avoid becoming a resource in their
politics
• Ownership of material, their right to comment, gve feed back orally to
secondment supervisor before giving it to them in writing – avoid
surprising them.
Thank you
Tak for jeres opmærksomhed
Secondment Agreement
Between Student, Head of Department, Secondment Supervisor
ARTICLE 1 Dates of Secondment
ARTICLE 2 Detailed programme of the training period
ARTICLE 3 Description of Secondment task
ARTICLE4 Training provided by Secondment Organisation
ARTICLE 5 Research - how the secondment helps the thesis research
ARTICLE 6 Work arrangements
ARTICLE 7 Coordination arrangements between UNIKE Fellow, university supervisor and secondment
supervisor
ARTICLE 8 Confidentiality and other restrictions
ARTICLE 9 Rights over research material
ARTICLE 10 Employment (by the university not the secondment organisation)
ARTICLE 11 Financial support
ARTICLE 12 Insurance
ARTICLE 13 Visa
ARTICLE 14 Feedback and Evaluation
ARTICLE 15 Liability
ARTICLE 16 Dispute resolution
ARTICLE 17 Termination
Fellows (Started Aug/Sept 2013)
Institute
Fellow
Country of origin
Doctoral /
Postdoctoral
AU, Denmark
Miguel Lim
Corina Balaban
Freya (Jie Gao)
Jana Bacevic
Philippines
Romania
China
Serbia
Doc
Doc
Doc
Postdoc
UB, UK
Janja Komljenovic
Que Anh Dang
Chris Muellerleile
Slovenia
Vietnam
USA
Doc
Doc
Postdoc
RU, UK
Katja Jonsas
Catherine Butcher
Finland
Doc
Saint Lucia, West Indies Doc
LU, Slovenia
Kassaye Alemu Sintayehu
Sina Westa
Ethiopia
Germany
Doc
Doc
Porto, Portugal
Benedikte Custers
Vanja Ivosevic
Belgium
Croatia
Doc
Doc
ENS, France
Tatyana Bajenova
Uzbekistan
Doc
WP 1 Concepts and theories
• Que Anh Dang: ASEM meetings and HE ‘policy travel’ from Europe
to Asia. Bristol University, (Roger Dale)
• Kassaye Alemu Sintayehu: Internationalisation of higher education
in centres and peripheries. Ljubljana University, (Pavel Zgaga)
• Jie Gao: Conjunction of Chinese and Danish partners in the design
and teaching of the Sino-Danish Centre. Aarhus University,
(Sue Wright)
• Sina Westa: Academic values between globalisation and globalism.
Ljubljana University, (Pavel Zgaga)
• Corina Balaban: Comparing European and US flagship programmes
for doctoral education. Aarhus University, (Sue Wright)
WP 2 Trends and developments)
• Janja Komljenovic: Mapping the field of higher education industries,
and choosing case studies. Bristol University (Susan Robertson)
• Miguel Lim: Audit culture and the industries of ranking. Aarhus
University (Sue Wright)
• Tatyana Bajenova: Think Tanks and Academic Entrepreneurs in the
Production of Knowledge. ENS de Lyon (Cecile Robert)
• Chris Muellerleille: New landscapes of publishing and knowledge
dissemination. Bristol University (Susan Robertson)
• Jana Bacevic: Academic entrepreneurialism, civil society and
democracy. Aarhus University (Sue Wright)
WP 3 Policies and practices
• Vanja Ivosevic: Governance through autonomy – A context-rich
comparative study. University of Porto, (António M.
Magalhães)
• Catherine Butcher: Alternative ownership, finance and organisation
of universities. Roehampton University (Rebecca Boden)
• Katja Jonsas: Management and gender. Roehampton University
(Rebecca Boden)
• Benedikte Custers: Impact of governance changes on the
educational categories and internal life of universities.
University of Porto (António M. Magalhães)
• Rebecca Lund: The conditions and characteristics of academic work.
Aarhus University (Sue Wright)
UNIKE Workshops and Summer Schools
Event
Scientific Training
Complementary
skills
Aspects of Doctoral
Education
Copenhagen,
Oct 2013
Global processes and
regional spaces
International
networking and
collaboration
History of policy
debates about
doctoral education in
Europe and USA
Bristol, Feb 2014
Ranking and
governance
Publishing in different
genres
Working/ researching
in organisations
Ljubljana, July 2014
Policy travel
Entrepreneurship and
grants
Partners’ own
practices
Roehampton,
Sept 2014
Management
technologies
International
conferences
Academic Freedom
Waiheke, NZ
Jan 2015
Research
methodologies
Reviewing articles and
commenting
Student-led writing
groups
Porto, July 2015
Figures on the HE
landscape
Writing abstracts for
scientific papers
Governance narratives
Tba, Oct 2015
Mapping knowledge
economies
Genres of research
writing
Social
science doctorates