Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/05/2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Audience:
NARTI Online Training & Development
‘Crafting your Academic Identity while Managing your Academic Career’
With Dr Amal Abdellatif
Tuesday 6th May 2025 (10.00-11.00 GMT)
The session will be relevant to doctoral researchers and academics at any stage of their study or career, across different disciplines/subjects. The aim of the session will be to explore questions related to navigating the construction of academic identity and give an insight into how individuals can manage their academic careers through adopting an entrepreneurial mindset. The session will take place online with a 30-minute presentation followed by a 30-minute Q&A. The session will cover:
- Crafting your unique academic identity: who are you and who do you aspire to be? your voice? Your values?
- What is an entrepreneurial mindset within the academic context?
- Researching and publishing
- Networking
- Finding your ‘tribe’
The takeaway of this session is to appreciate the non-linearity of academic careers and how each of us can forge and pursue their own path and dare to do things differently to challenge misperceptions that there is only one way of doing academia ‘right’
Speaker biography:
Dr Amal Abdellatif is Assistant Professor in Organisation Studies at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. Joining academia after nine years in industry, Amal’s research centres around inequalities at different intersections of difference, otherness and marginalisation, and alternative forms of feminist organising. In exploring these themes, Amal draws upon diverse theoretical constructs and adopts unconventional qualitative methodologies with the use of visual and art-based approaches. Her work is published in top leading academic journals including Journal of Business Ethics, Organization, and Gender, Work and Organization. She holds board roles in different non-for-profit organisations and is the Social Media Editor at Management Learning Journal, as well as Media and Social Media Section Co-Editor-in-Chief at Culture and Organization Journal.