scholarly journals ‘A talented young German’: exploration of the early career of Jacob Braché

2021 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Gabrielle L. McMullen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Servant ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Mining Engineer ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Significant Figure

Jacob Braché (1827–1905) arrived in Melbourne in 1853, two years into the Victorian gold rush, and soon became a significant figure in local mining circles. For almost fifty years, he contributed actively to mining endeavours – during periods as a civil servant, in numerous mining enterprises, and as a consulting mining engineer. Following a summary of Braché’s contributions in Victoria, this paper focuses on his education and experience prior to emigrating to the Colony, looking at the expertise that he brought to his colonial roles. It concludes with insights into why this ‘talented young German’ was a controversial figure over his half century of professional life in Australia.

What is ‘impact’? Learning from examples across the professional life course

2018 ◽  
pp. 181-201
Author(s):  
Tina Haux
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Life Course

The inclusion of research impact in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework in the UK (REF2014) was greeted with scepticism by the academic community, not least due to the challenges of defining and measuring the nature and significance of impact. A new analytical framework of the nature of impact is developed in this chapter and it distinguishes between policy creation, direction, discourse and practice. This framework is then applied to the top-ranked impact case studies in the REF2014 from the Social Work and Social Policy sub-panel and the ESRC Early Career Impact Prize Winners in order to assess impact across the life-course of academics.  

Case Study #6: The Garbage Collector by Ray Bradbury

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Kenneth Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
Local State ◽  
Garbage Collector ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Work Ethics ◽  
Retirement Expectations ◽  
The People ◽  
Ray Bradbury

Often we take for granted the services that our taxes pay for and that our government — whether local, state, or federal — provides. We also take for granted the people who make those services a part of our everyday lives. Like us, those unsung workers have families, homes, work ethics, career and retirement expectations, and the worries of daily life. Ray Bradbury gives us a picture of just such a worker — a civil servant — who might be someone who actually lived and worked almost anytime since “The Garbage Collector” was written more than a half century ago.

scholarly journals Association of Physicians’ Self-Compassion with Work Engagement, Exhaustion, and Professional Life Satisfaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Babenko ◽  
Amber D. Mosewich ◽  
Ann Lee ◽  
Sudha Koppula
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Adaptive Resource ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sequential Regression ◽  
Practicing Physicians

Self-compassion has shown promise as an adaptive resource for coping with uncertainties and challenges. This study examined the relationship between self-compassion and professional wellbeing (work engagement, exhaustion, and professional life satisfaction) of physicians, who frequently face uncertainties and challenges in their clinical practice. Fifty-seven practicing physicians in Canada participated in the study. Overall, 65% of the participants were female; 47% were in the early-career stage; 49% were family medicine (FM) physicians, with the rest being non-FM specialists. It was hypothesized that (a) self-compassionate physicians would experience greater work engagement and less exhaustion from work than physicians reporting lower self-compassion and (b) self-compassionate physicians would experience greater professional life satisfaction through their greater work engagement and less exhaustion than physicians reporting lower self-compassion. Sequential regression analyses were performed. The results confirmed the hypothesized associations, indicating that self-compassionate physicians experienced more positive work engagement, felt less emotionally, physically, and cognitively exhausted due to work demands, and were more satisfied with their professional life than physicians who exhibited less compassion toward themselves in uncertain and challenging times. Future studies are needed to determine optimal ways to support practicing physicians and medical trainees in becoming more self-compassionate for their enhanced wellbeing and, ultimately, for the provision of effective patient care.

An embarrassment of riches: The seduction of postfeminism in the academy

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Liu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
Leadership Research ◽  
White Elite ◽  
Organisational Practice

Given critiques of postfeminism as a neoliberal and patriarchal discourse that has taken considerable tolls on professional life, its popularity in organisational practice seems out of place. This article explores the processes of postfeminism through an autoethnographic inquiry of my experiences working as a research fellow at a leadership research centre in Australia. In theorising from my narrative accounts as an early career scholar, I offer a view into the entangled processes of postfeminist knowledge production and my own making as a postfeminist subject. In doing so, I attempt to illustrate the seductive appeal of postfeminism as an ostensibly empowering process that ultimately preserves White elite class patriarchal power.

scholarly journals Narrative practices in developing professional identities: Issues of objectivity and agency

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Amott
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Model ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Professional Identification ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
A Site ◽  
Career Teacher

This article presents an analytical model of binary dimensions of narrative practice perceived as two continua between the oppositions of subjectivity/objectivity and structure/agency. Such narrative practice is considered as a site for professional ‘identification’ and self-knowing. The analytical model provided a framework that was applied to a series of professional life history narrative events and follow-up discussions conducted with six early career teacher educators working across two contrasting sites for teacher education. The findings evidence participants’ reflections within the narrative events that relate to the descriptors of each quadrant in this model and show that it has utility in describing and understanding the process of identification that takes place within narrative practice.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

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