The Research Whisperer asked me to write about my experiences in academia and the public sector, so here is what I wrote.
Evan Smith is a Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of International Studies at Flinders University.
He is interested in contemporary history, politics and criminal justice research. He blogs about his research and aspects of 1980s popular culture at: hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com
Evan tweets from @hatfulofhistory.
As we’re interested in #altac trajectories, the Research Whisperers approached Evan for a guest-post when we realised that he had been a researcher in the public sector who had returned to academia. How did these job changes happen? What were the drivers and challenges?
He has kindly shared his story with us here, and provided five strategies for keeping your research career options open.
I am a historian and a criminologist. Historian by training and criminologist, first by default, then by profession.
My postdoctoral career has been varied, and I’ve spent the last seven years in and out of academia (simultaneously – like Derrida…
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