Our guest researcher Professor Thusha Rajendran will hold the first part of the workshop on "Careers vs Jobs vs tasks - The role of identity in higher order skills development". This will be a presentation and interactive session about different career options, trajectories and future skills.
The second part of the workshop will be held by P?l Br?telund on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is much more than starting a company. Ultimately, it’s about how you want to spend your life. Success stories are often retroactively engineered to highlight how smart people were, while coincidences, mishaps, and shameful decisions are buried. We will discuss the value of knowledge and academic credentials in the real world, the golden coincidences that a good network brings, and how almost no one ends up with the job description they initially envisioned.
Bios
Gnanathusharan (Thusha) Rajendran is Professor of Developmental Psychology and Director of the Centre for Applied Behavioural Sciences as well his own Developmental Psychology in Action Lab at Heriot-Watt University and The National Robotarium (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK). His role as a Research Leader and Centre Director includes talent and career development for Early Career Researchers (ECRs). He has written a position piece about the skills gaps in the UK Education systems and in 2023 he gave a Keynote address to the Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences about skill development in working in interdisciplinary teams.
P?l Br?telund manages MusicDNA, a company that has used technology for better royalty distribution for many years. He has a background as a product and business developer from Schibsted, WiMP, TIDAL, NOVA Spektrum and Roon in addition to being a songwriter, performer and producer. Through the company Sound Advice, he is also an adviser to many startups and organizations in the music industry both in Norway and internationally.
Programme
| 09:00 |
Careers vs Jobs vs tasks - The role of identity in higher order skills development with Thusha Rajendran. |
| 10:00 | Short break |
| 10:10 | Session cont. |
| 11:00 | Short break |
| 11:15 | Entrepreneurship with P?l Br?telund |
| 12:00 | Lunch! |
Voluntary preparation
In preparation for the workshop, please consider taking the Via Character Strengths survey. In the session you will be shown how to use these strengths to develop resilience.
The survey has 240 questions. Taking it is not mandatory, but you may get more out of the session if you do. To take the survey you need to create an account through the University of Pennsylvania. The website has some glitches, so it is important to remember your username and password. The site gathers some data about its users.