The annual JURE Career Day offers junior researchers the opportunity to engage with questions about and advice on career building and opportunities beyond your PhD.
Through direct, informal interaction with senior researchers as well as a number of workshops focusing on career building and corresponding academic skills, we aim to support junior researchers in their academic endeavours.
At our sixth online JURE Career Day, we are pleased to offer a rich and varied programme of interactive workshops, panels and Q and A sessions.
Start of the Career Day
Panel Discussion: “Navigating Academic Pathways”
Coffee Break
Workshop 1: Your Well-Being Matters: Navigating Demands and Resources as a Junior Researcher
Workshop 2: From Research Design to Publishing in Educational Sciences: Practical Insights for Early-Career Researchers
Coffee Break
Talk: "Comproved - From Research Project to Spin-off"
End of the Career Day
Navigating Academic Pathways
Dr. Eveli Kuuse, Dr. Andreas Gegenfurtner, Dr. Kelly Webb Davis
This panel brings together experienced scholars to discuss key aspects of navigating academic pathways. Focusing on successful grant applications, academic publishing, and training and professional development, the panelists will share practical insights from their own careers. The session aims to provide early career researchers with concrete advice, reflections, and strategies to support their academic development and decision making.
Comproved: From Research Project to Spin-off
Dr. Roos Van Gasse
During this session, Roos Van Gasse provides a ‘behind the scenes’ of the raise of spin-off company Comproved. She will talk about what started as a research project and the – sometimes bumpy – pathway of raising a company. But most important, what this transition can bring about in terms of professional learning for PhD researchers.
Your Well-Being Matters: Navigating Demands and Resources as a Junior Researcher
Dr. Manuela Haldimann, Dr. Melanie Nuoffer & Dr. Verena Jörg
The journey as a junior researcher brings together many contrasting experiences: intense demands such as time pressure, high expectations, and uncertainty, alongside motivational resources like high autonomy, peer support, and opportunities for growth. These contrasting experiences shape not only our motivation, but also our well-being and sustainability in academia. In this interactive workshop, we create a welcoming space to explore how these demands and resources shape our well-being, and how small, targeted adjustments can make academic life more balanced and sustainable. Guided by the Job Demands–Resources (JD-R) theory (Bakker & Demerouti, 2017) and the concept of basic psychological needs (Ryan & Deci, 2017), we reflect together on what challenges us, and what supports us.
Participants begin by mapping their personal demands and resources through a short individual exercise, followed by small group discussions to identify shared experiences. Building on this reflection, we explore evidence-informed strategies, based on Self-Determination Theory's Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction, and introduce practical strategies such as job crafting and need-based adjustments that help reduce strain and strengthen well-being.
Through brief inputs, individual reflection, and small-group discussions, we work toward greater clarity about our own demands and resources, learn from each other's experiences, and have the opportunity to connect with fellow junior researchers. We close by setting and optimizing concrete personalized goals towards strengthening one of our resources and lowering the impact of one of our most challenging demands. We look forward to welcoming you to the workshop!
From Research Design to Publishing in Educational Sciences: Practical Insights for Early-career Researchers Dr. Atilla Pasztor |