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Dr Kathryn Sutherland Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Success and Relational Agency in Academia: The Experiences of Early Career Academics (ECAs) in NZ Universities. Dr Kathryn Sutherland Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Kathryn.Sutherland@vuw.ac.nz

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Dr Kathryn Sutherland Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

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  1. Success and Relational Agency in Academia: The Experiences of Early Career Academics (ECAs) in NZ Universities Dr Kathryn Sutherland Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Kathryn.Sutherland@vuw.ac.nz (Project Team Members: Dr Pam Williams and Dr Marc Wilson)

  2. The Project • Factors influencing success, productivity and satisfaction of ECAs • Variations in organisational expectations and personal aspirations • Institutional and personal processes and support • Resources at a national and local level

  3. The project team All from Victoria University of Wellington • Dr Kathryn Sutherland, Associate Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences • Team Role: Principal Investigator • Dr Pamela Williams, Sustainability Consultant • Team Role: Researcher • Dr Marc Wilson, Associate Professor, Psychology • Team Role: Researcher and Statistical Consultant

  4. The need for the project • BIG GAP between external/institutional and personal expectations

  5. Externally imposed constructions of success

  6. Personal constructions of success

  7. The need for the project, cont’d… • BIG GAP between external/institutional and personal expectations • If “successful” ECAs report a LACK OF SATISFACTION AND BALANCE, what is happening for the rest? • Importance of the FIRST FEW YEARS of learning in any new job

  8. Factors influencing success • Institutional support and resources • Prior experiences • Personal characteristics • Resourcefulness • Resilience • Relationships/relational agency • Academic citizenship • Balance http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/ako-hub/ako-aotearoa-central-hub/resources/pages/success-and-impact-early-career-academics-two-new-z

  9. Research Design • Builds on already published research • Multi-method approach – interviews, questionnaires, focus groups • Includes participants from all eight New Zealand universities (up to 54 interviewees and up to 96 focus group participants, as well as up to 800 questionnaire respondents) • Triangulation and role of reference group

  10. Impact on practice for enhanced learner benefit • Academics are learners too, as Developing Scholarly Habits (DSH) programme at Victoria is demonstrating • Potential new induction and support programmes and resources in universities (and other institutions) • Better balance and satisfaction among academics will flow on to benefits for students, too

  11. Progress to date • Ethics approval granted • Interviews conducted at two of the four remaining universities (the other two will happen in May)

  12. Next steps • Data analysis of Phase One • Literature review • National questionnaire of all ECAs • Focus groups with ECAs • Focus groups with management/admin/reps of “the university”

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