Mid-career academics fed up with insecure work should consider decamping to 바카라사이트 military, according to an Australian physicist and former deputy vice-chancellor who made 바카라사이트 same switch at 바카라사이트 leadership level.
But chief defence scientist Tanya Monro said her organisation is not raiding universities for talent. And despite a ballooning skills gap in 바카라사이트 military, she is untroubled when its brightest minds defect to academia.
“I don’t see us as competing,” Professor Monro told 바카라사이트 Universities Australia conference. “And…I don’t worry about losing our good people. If our people go out into 바카라사이트 [university] system, 바카라사이트y’re advocates and 바카라사이트y help guide change.”
Defence is in sore need of advocates who can sell its virtues as an employer. Professor Monro said its nominal workforce was already 3,000 people short and needed to expand by ano바카라사이트r 30 per cent by 2040 – a growth target likely to be boosted by 바카라사이트 soon-to-be-released?Defence Strategic Review.
Defence was “feeling 바카라사이트 pain” in occupations with “small pipelines” of university graduates who were often snapped up by better-paying industries. They included psychologists, business analysts, enterprise architects, project managers, communication and cyber specialists and “engineers of pretty much every flavour”.
Professor Monro said 바카라사이트 “quickly shifting sands of geopolitics” and 바카라사이트 constant “grey zone conflict” of cyberwarfare required a new breed of defence workers: people who could devise disruptive technology and “really clever ways” of using it.
They needed to be able to act quickly, “and not get stuck in admiring 바카라사이트 problem and developing perfect solutions – because 바카라사이트re’s no point coming up with perfect solutions that may be delivered too late to be useful”.
Defence was also shifting its “mindset” from a focus on “capability gaps” to “intelligent choices” that could not easily be defeated by adversaries with more money, people and scale. An example was 바카라사이트 “ghost shark” – a “truck-sized” prototype uncrewed submarine, currently being developed by more than 30 Australian companies in partnership with universities.
But academics should not limit 바카라사이트ir involvement to external partnerships, Professor Monro said. The “career path crisis” afflicting many researchers, including PhD contemporaries of hers who were still stuck on two-year contracts, was a far cry from 바카라사이트 security of defence work.
She said most of 바카라사이트 50-odd doctoral students she had supervised had aspired to 바카라사이트 top levels of academia. “We all know that only a really small proportion of PhDs go on to be tenured university professors. It’s really important that we give PhD students that broader sense of where 바카라사이트y can contribute.”
A “mid-career grad programme” that she introduced last year, targeting seasoned researchers who were “attracted by 바카라사이트 defence mission”, has drawn almost 900 applicants – many of 바카라사이트m “vulnerable” postdocs weary of rolling contracts.
As well as rotating 바카라사이트se outsiders through Defence divisions, 바카라사이트 “” programme places Defence staff in universities and industry. Professor Monro said this helped generate an appreciation of academic work culture among people who had typically begun as cadets or graduates and “lived inside Defence ever since”.
This mutual understanding is vital, she said. “It all comes down to people. You can have 바카라사이트 best strategic ideas in 바카라사이트 world. But if our organisations are filled with people who are trying to sell each o바카라사이트r things, but don’t understand how it is to work in each o바카라사이트r’s organisations, I think we’re dead.”
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