Prof Louise Ackers' Outputs (2)

Mobilities and social capital: understanding the importance of international networking to progression in research careers (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Ackers, H. (2014, August). Mobilities and social capital: understanding the importance of international networking to progression in research careers. Presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference: Geographies of co-production, Imperial College, London

This paper draws on research conducted as part of the POCARIM study of mobilities and career progression in the social sciences and humanities. The findings underline the importance of certain forms of mobilities associated with network-building to c... Read More about Mobilities and social capital: understanding the importance of international networking to progression in research careers.

Making doctoral mobility work in and beyond the doctoral phase : lessons from experience (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Coey, C., & Ackers, H. (2014, June). Making doctoral mobility work in and beyond the doctoral phase : lessons from experience. Presented at 7th Annual Meeting of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education,: Doctoral Education: Thinking globally, acting locally’, University of Liverpool

The paper we propose to present explores the experiences of doctorate holders who have undertaken international mobility for part or the whole of their doctoral phase. We draw on the experiences of a sample of over 2,500 survey respondents and 340 in... Read More about Making doctoral mobility work in and beyond the doctoral phase : lessons from experience.