ACLA course is targeted to post-doctoral researchers who are launching their independent researcher career and are thinking about building their own research group. This course will help you to:
We will discuss career planning and trajectories, strategic mapping of research horizons, funding opportunities/challenges, building and leading a research group, project management, social impact issues and publication strategies, data management and research ethics. Guest speakers will link these practical matters to discussing the larger thematic horizons of social sciences and humanities, such as well-being, climate change challenges, datafication, security, cultural interaction. We will provide a constructive, interdisciplinary work environment and wide range for expertise to support your efforts.
For more information contact Risto Kunelius risto.kunelius@helsinki.fi or Pekka Mäkelä pekka.makela@helsinki.fi.
Adriana Luna-Fabritius (PhD, Vice-President of the European Society for the History of Political Thought) found ACLA as one of the most useful courses taken at the University of Helsinki. Read more experiences about the 2022–2023 course and a trip to Brussels here.
University Researcher Eljas Oksanen says the course was useful for receiving information for an academic career, as well as for peer support from other early career researchers, and a sense of community. Read more about Oksanen's experience of the 2021–2022 course.
The course was first arranged in the academic year 2020–2021. Read more about the experiences from the course here (in Finnish).