This post includes commentary on the benefits and the exclusionary challenges of attending conferences – as well as the vital importance of funding bursaries.
In this post David Clark looks back on conferences past, reflecting on the role they have played in his career.
Editors’ note: Recently on Twitter the Conference Inference editors came across the following tweet, where David Clark shared the discovery of the manuscript of his first conference presentation. In this post we have asked David to use the discovery as a beginning point to reflect on conferences past. David’s post may be read alongside other Conference Inference posts which foreground memories of conferences by Sandra Acker and Barbara Grant
Continue reading “Reflections on conferences past (David Clark)”What impact has COVID-19’s interruption of conferences had on doctoral students? Conference Inference editor James Burford asked Carleton University doctoral candidate Brittany Botti-Amell to share her reflections.
In this post the reasons why doctoral students attend conferences are contrasted with normative assumptions within institutions, thus illustrating a gap in harmonising three key factors in doctoral education: student motivations, professional expectations and institutional support.
In this post, conferences are shown to be important locations for the renegotiation of professional identity for dual professional academics.
In this post the authors explore the challenges for early career academics in attending conferences—who gets to go, who doesn’t, and why does it matter?
“I have considered self-financing my own attendance at conferences etc., just so that I can get ahead; however, my current salary [in a part-time position] precludes me from being able to do this.” (Early Career Academic, New Zealand, Woman, Education Department)
In this post, Julie Mansuy explores the internal pressure felt by early career researchers at conferences to gain approval from senior academics in their fields.
Nicole Seymour reflects on how conferences can be more inclusive for precarious, contingent, non-tenure-track faculty and independent scholars.
In this post, Xuemeng Cao reflects on conferences held by Chinese universities which combine research dissemination, recruitment and networking.
Continue reading “Conference or recruitment fair? China’s new hybrid academic events (Xuemeng Cao)”
In this post James Burford builds on the Research Whisperer’s recent post on boundary-setting. He reflects on saying ‘no’ to conference opportunities.
Continue reading “Saying ‘no’ to conference opportunities (James Burford)”
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