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Tseen Khoo, "No Fries with That: One Postgraduate Perspective" Increasing professionalisation. Fewer jobs. Higher expectations for "new" academics. Insecure contract jobs as the norm. Escalating workloads across academia. It's all very attractive isn't it? This presentation is focused on my own experiences of, and perspectives on, research postgraduate opportunities. I discuss strategies for staying sane and reality checks about the job market, "networking", and other academic hobbies. How practical is it to expect an academic job these days? I also want to examine the idea of non-academic work as a possibility, or probability, given the current employment climate in universities. In many ways, Arts & Humanities postgraduates are out in front of the general graduate workforce but postgraduate skills are often undervalued by graduates themselves, as well as prospective employers. Biography:Dr Tseen Khoo researches in Asian diasporic literary studies and cultural production. She co-edited the collection of essays, Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia (2000) and convened the inaugural Asian Australian Identities conference in Canberra 1999. Her work appears in Interactions: Asia and Pacific Literatures (Ed. Dennis Haskell and Ron Shapiro; 2000) and Bastard Moon: Essays on Chinese-Australian Writing (Ed. Wenche Ommundsen; 2001). Tseen's articles and reviews also feature in Hecate, New Formations, and Journal of Japanese Studies. Tseen has also co-edited the "Sorry" issue of the online journal M/C. A member of the Executive Committee for the Association for Canadian Studies in Australian and New Zealand, Tseen also moderates the asian-australian electronic list and created and maintains the Banana Pages: Studying Asian Australia website. Tseen is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Her current research includes a project investigating 'locations' of Asian-Australian identity. She has a book forthcoming from Hong Kong University Press, Banana Bending: Asian Australian and Asian Canadian Literatures. From 1999-2001, Tseen worked as a Policy and Projects officer for the UQ Graduate School. She has also worked for State and Commonwealth government departments, MIM Holdings, and the local video shop. |
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