Originally Posted by
cherieb
Thanks for all your "welcomes" everybody!
KerryS, you seemed to move about a bit is this normal for PDs in OZ/NZ due to funding I suppose? Also, is work experience from the UK seen as a good thing over there (I'm in molecular biology so maybe you aren't able to comment).
Any other Uni people about on the forum to give me some wise words of advice?
Thanks again everyone,
Cherieb
I think moving about due to funding is pretty normal everywhere! The reason I left Australia and came to NZ was because my contract there had come to an end, and I had never intended to stay for any period of time. When I arrived in NZ I only knew one person, who happened to work in the same field and was leaving their post to go to the US. I was fortunate enough to be offered their role.
Most people do stay in post for a reasonable length of time - certainly longer than I did. I just became disillusioned with working in academia and so moved into something entirely different.
I don't think work experience from the UK is viewed any more favourably than work experience from anywhere else - it's the quality of the work you've done (although publications are viewed favourably here I found) rather than where it's undertaken.
I know nothing about the sciences, so can't really comment on whether there is as much movement there as within the social sciences field. Sorry.