Coordinators
Mission Statement
The SIG aims to promote research and theory development in the area of researcher education and careers, both academic and non-academic. By researcher, we mean individuals with up to 10 years' experience including their doctorate: doctoral students, post-PhD researchers, newly-hired lecturers as well as professionals in universities and beyond. The SIG aspires to encourage, recognize and support innovative research-based practices that better prepare future researchers for their careers, and thus address priorities in graduate and postgraduate education and training.
Upcoming Activities
EARLI SIG-24 Webinar, October 28, 2025, at 12.00-14.00 CEST / UTC+2SIG-24
Sprawling doctoral pedagogies
EARLI SIG-24 Meeting, August 26-28, 2026, Aarhus University, Denmark
https://event.au.dk/events/earli-sig-24-meeting
EARLI SIG-24 Meeting: (Post-)Doctoral pedagogy and research culture
Local host: Centre for Higher Education Futures (CHEF)
Centre for Higher Education Futures is a research centre at Danish School of Education (DPU), Aarhus University. CHEF is a centre for research on higher education and university futures and for dialogue between researchers and the policy community in Denmark and internationally. Read more: https://dpu.au.dk/en/research/research-programmes/chef/
Past Conferences
SIG-24 invited symposium at EARLI 2025 conference
- Theme: Fostering independence: what are the developmental consequences in doctoral context?
- Date: 26th of August, 2025
- Place: University of Graz, Austria
SIG 24 Conference 2024
- Date: 25 - 27 September 2024
- Location: Leiden, the Netherlands
SIG 24 Biennial Conference 2022
- Theme: Transitions in researcher education and careers
- Date: 26th - 28th of October, 2022
- Place: Helsinki University, Finland
- Conference website
SIG 24 Biennial Conference 2018
- Theme: Unpacking and exploring researcher communication - implications for inquiry into ECR experience
- Date: 30th of September - 2nd of October, 2018
- Place: University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Conference website