Date: October 27th, 2023, 10AM UTC
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Navigating career imaginations
Currently, academic career building is becoming more competitive, selective, and demanding. A growing reliance on external funding, metrics-based performance assessments, and managerial control over academic work has changed how academic career building is understood and evaluated. Epistemological and institutional contexts shape career imaginaries as well as general academic career models. The way people imagine what is possible and what is impossible, how goals can be reached and what obstacles to expect is shaped by these imagined worlds. This model makes academic career paths particularly uncertain, risky, and selective. In this session, we hope to learn from researchers who envision their career futures through their experiences, and how to navigate the research world.
Confirmed Panellists: Valerie Luyckx, Olivia Matshabane and Sharon Kaur
Dr Olivia P. Matshabane is a neuroethicist and researcher at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Department of Psychiatry and incoming lecturer on neuroscience ethics under the MSc Global Health Ethics Programme at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. She is trained in psychology, neuropsychiatric genomics, neuroethics and bioethics. Her research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the ethical, social, psychological, and cultural implications of neuropsychiatric genomics and neuroscience in Africa. Dr Matshabane received her PhD in Medicine (Bioethics) from UCT, her Master’s and Honours in Psychology from SU, and her bachelor’s in psychology from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She is the Chair of the International Neuroethics Society (INS) Student/Postdoc Committee, a member of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Africa Ethics Working Group and past Chair of Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium’s Fellows Committee.
Dr Valerie A. Luyckx obtained her MBBCh from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She trained in Internal Medicine at University of Miami and in Nephrology at Harvard Medical School. She holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich. She is based at the University of Zurich in the Department of Global and Public Health, and holds affiliate positions at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town. Her research activities include the challenges of justice, ethics and moral distress relating to resource allocation and the prevention and management of kidney disease and in resource limited regions. She is strong supporter of equity and diversity in global health. She serves on the Swiss Central Ethics Committee (ZEK).
Dr. Sharon Kaur is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya, where she has designed modules on healthcare law and ethics for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students including several modules on the Master of Health Research Ethics (MOHRE) at the Faculty of Medicine Her research interests primarily revolve around global health bioethics. She is keen on developing her work on migrant health ethics, particularly in relation to health research; as well as issues relating to the intersection of bioethics, law, and public policy. She is a member of the WHO Covid 19 Ethics and Governance Working Group, the Steering Committee of the Global Forum for Bioethics in Research (GFBR) and the International Expert Network of the Global Infectious Disease Ethics Collaborative (GLIDE). She is working with colleagues on a Wellcome Trust funded project to set up the Southeast Asian Bioethics Network.
July 27th, 2023, 10AM UTC
How to write grants: A science, an art, and what else?
There is an art to grant writing, and it is the art of persuasion! In this neo-liberal academic world, most Early Career Scholars' success depends on grants, and they need to be prepared and mentored! This is especially true for scholars who might have a difficult time finding some support system. Our goal in this webinar is to learn from experienced scholars who have successfully navigated the grant writing process, and to gain insights from them about key learnings.
Speakers
Ruth Horn, University of Oxford
Ruth Horn is Associate Professor at the Ethox Centre in the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford (UK) and Deputy Director of the Institute for Ethics & History of Health in Society at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg (Germany). Ruth’s research focuses on ethical questions raised by medical practices and new technologies at the beginning and end of life in different national contexts. In the past years, her research has focused on ethical questions arising from the clinical implementation of genomic medicine. Currently, she leads a project on non-invasive prenatal testing in England, France and Germany. She is co-lead and founder of UK-FR GENE (UK-France Genomics and Ethics Network), a network for British and French researchers, policy-makers and practitioners to reflect on the ethics of genomic medicine in each national context. Ruth has been involved in a number of policy documents. Lately, she co-authored the UK Joint Committee on Genomics in Medicine (JCGM) guidelines on 'ethical issues in prenatal diagnosis'. Her research has been supported through various funders, including the European Council, Wellcome Trust, and the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
Jill Fisher, University of North Carolina
Jill A. Fisher is Professor of Social Medicine in the Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials (Rutgers University Press, 2009) and Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals (New York University Press, 2020). She has received grants from the US National Institutes of Health and the US National Science Foundation. More information about Dr. Fisher as well as many of her publications can be found at her website: www.jillfisher.net.
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Ruth Horn's PPT
Jill Fisher's PPT
