Academici praten met elkaar. Niet alleen over hun onderzoek, maar ook over barrières die ze in hun dagelijks werk tegenkomen. En hoewel het onderzoek en de afdeling inhoudelijk van elkaar verschillen, vertonen de problemen opvallende gelijkenissen. Soms voelt het alsof de problemen te hardnekkig zijn om op te lossen, maar gelukkig zijn er ook veel voorbeelden van goede oplossingen. Omdat veel wetenschappers idealisten zijn, zijn ze goed in het aanwijzen van pijnpunten en het bekritiseren van de bestuurlijke aanpak. Maar er zijn ook passende en leerzame oplossingen in andere instellingen.
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Afleveringen
Aflevering 1: Marian Joëls on Impact Profiles
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The University Medical Centre Groningen has four career tracks, or ‘impact profiles’, in academic leadership: the ‘classic’ research profile, a special track for clinicians, one for society and valorization, and the fourth one is for education. This system was pushed by Marian Joëls and provides new ways for diversifying academic career tracks. ‘Careers can be diverse and the optimal result is when you really make use of people’s talents.’
Marian Joëls is Professor Neurobiology of Environmental Factors. Until recently, she was Dean of Medical Sciences at the University of Groningen and member of the Board of Management of the UMCG.
Aflevering 2: Hilde Verbeek on PhD supervision
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PhD supervisors work closely with candidates in shaping their scientific projects. It is therefore important to be approachable. At the Department of Health Services Research at Maastricht University, PhD candidates get several opportunities to evaluate their supervisors and to work together with them as academics. ‘Extreme hierarchy threatens the quality of our scientific work’ says Hilde Verbeek. In this episode she explains how these evaluations have – sometimes in an unexpected way – helped her become a better supervisor.
Hilde Verbeek is Professor of Long-Term Care Environments at Maastricht University
Aflevering 3: Carolien van Ham on Team Recognition
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Carolien van Ham was tired of the constant competition in research and joined a department where things are organised differently. Collaboration and team performance, and hiring people with different skills and a collaboration mindset is now what she aims for. At her department at the Radboud University Nijmegen a research prize was awarded to a team instead of individuals. ‘Potentially we could generate way more ideas, and science could go way faster if we would be a little bit less competitive and a little bit more collaborative.’
Carolien van Ham is Professor of Empirical Political Science at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
Aflevering 4: Saskia Bonjour on Elected Boards
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‘What struck me most, is that it brought so much new energy.’ The department of political science at the University of Amsterdam consists of several programme groups that are now led by elected boards. In this new system, you don’t have to be a full professor in order to lead a programme group. Saskia is proud of this system of governance and explains how it encourages group members to be more involved in the decision-making, but also how it makes her department a more safe environment.
Saskia Bonjour is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.