23289: Career Development Workshop for Mid-Career Scholars

Friday, July 25, 2025

09:00 - 11:30 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: MR64/65

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice,Diversity
Highlight: DIG Highlight
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/JQ98J8

Organizer(s)

CW

Carola Wolf

U. of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Panelist(s)

JB

Julia Balogun

U. of Liverpool, United Kingdom
AS

A. Paul Spee

U. of Queensland, Australia
MS

Matt Statler

New York U., United States
AT

Aino Tenhiälä

IE Business School, Spain
LD

Leonhard Dobusch

Universität Innsbruck, Austria

This workshop invites participants to reflect upon common challenges experienced during mid-career stages of the academic life cycle. The mid-career stage comes with a set of challenges after having established a career in academia. In this workshop, we will particularly focus on three categories of challenges: (1) Experiencing increasing pressure to take on significant administrative and managerial roles, (2) balancing the role as academic scholar with other roles and activities that provide meaning and are a core source of personal well-being, (3) balancing family-life with academic life. The first part of the workshop is organized as a moderated panel discussion (no pre-registration required). In the second part of the workshop, pre-registered participants will have an opportunity to discuss their own challenges in small groups and guided by group coaching formats to instigate insightful discussions.

If you would like to participate in the second part of the workshop, please send an email to the PDW organizer Carola Wolf (c.wolf@liverpool.ac.uk). In order to facilitate roundtable allocations, please indicate your topic preferences by ranking the 3 outlined challenges above based on your preferences.