I was delighted to overhear another big conversation about serving part-time as a senior member of the judiciary recently. In my role as Director of the Arts and Law Graduate School I spend a lot of my time thinking about how we can support Part-Time Researchers. The Part-Time route to completing a research degree is attracting outstanding researchers \u2013 often with another foot in the world outside of academia. Since we successfully launched the Distance Learning PhD and Research Masters this group is based all over the globe with residential periods on campus. As someone who never studied or worked part-time my instinctive response to anyone completing a research degree part-time is one of enormous respect. When my two children were young I took a career break which left me ready to jump back into the world of work once the opportunity came up. This was not part of some grand plan but just worked out that way in the way life sometimes does and often does not. At the time it was far from clear that I was embarking on a career break rather than career suicide! It was the University of Birmingham that took the gamble of hiring me after a 6 year \u2018break with publications\u2019 to a prestigious appointment. But do any of us really have so little experience of researching part-time? In fact on closer inspection I complete\/neglect\/attempt all of my roles part-time: mother, partner, friend, teacher, administrator, and researcher. Theoretically I devote 1\/3 of my working time to Teaching, Administration and Research and the time outside of work to my private life. In practice the split is not clear cut depending on the time of year, sabbaticals, grants, the demands of the current administrative role etc. It can feel like I am working all the time \u2013 if not at my desk then in my head. I know many of our taught students either study part-time or balance full time study with a job and other commitments. I would like to learn from students and colleagues – both academic and professional services – how they make part-time work. I am convinced we can all benefit from the conversation and try and think imaginatively about the future \u2013 perhaps even part-time or job-share members of our senior leadership team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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