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The majority of postgraduate research students at ANU want to pursue a career in higher education, either in research positions or in research and teaching positions, a new survey has found.
The study conducted by the Graduate Research School (GRS) at ANU indicates that more than 70 per cent of the 447 respondents to the survey, who are postgraduate research students currently studying at the University, wish to continue working in the higher education sector after graduation.
A third of postgraduates said they wanted a pure research career, while 38 per cent wanted to work in research and teaching.
“It’s encouraging to see that so many of our postgraduate students value the importance of broadening our understanding in so many fields of endeavour – whether that’s through research alone or in academic positions that involve both research and teaching,” the Dean of Graduate Studies, Professor Gail Huon, said.
“Large numbers of those who responded expressed no knowledge or experience of many academic support services, so it is important that we assist them to develop the skills they will require, and to use the resources that the ANU has to offer in order to do that.”
The preferences expressed by the respondents for career options outside of the tertiary education sector were spread evenly among a range of options. Government, defence and health careers had the highest percentages of first preferences.
The Career aspirations of postgraduate research students at ANU survey was compiled by Professor Huon with Adam Chapman, Miriam Glennie and Dr Ruth Jarvis from the GRS.
For more about the Graduate Research School: http://www.anu.edu.au/graduate/
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