Dr. Elena Golovushkina

Elena was a PhD candidate at the Caledonian Academy focusing on graduate employability. Originally from Sverdlovsk region in Russia, Elena studied Linguistics at the Ural State Pedagogical University, In the UK, Elena studied first at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MSc in Management of Training and Development.

Elena's study explored the attitudes of social science doctoral researchers and key stakeholders (researcher developers, supervisors), linking these perspectives to existing skills development frameworks and current approaches to development of employability. For further information see: www.gcu.ac.uk/academy/researcheremployability/

The study produced two papers:

• Golovushkina, E., & Milligan, C. (2013). Employability development in the context of doctoral studies: systemic tensions and the views of key stakeholders. International Journal of Training and Development 17 (3) 194-209.
• Golovushkina, E., & Milligan, C. (2012). Developing early stage researchers: employability perceptions of social science doctoral candidates. International Journal for Researcher Development, 3(1), 64-78.

and a number of conference presentations:

• Golovushkina, E. & Milligan, C. (2012) ‘Enhancing learning and employability of doctoral candidates in social sciences: results of a mixed methods study’, Society for Research into Higher Education Conference, Newport, Wales, December 2012
• Golovushkina, E. & Milligan, C. (2012) ‘Self-perceived employability of doctoral candidates in social scientists in Scottish Higher Education Institutions’, British Sociological Association Postgraduate Conference ‘Employability and the Graduate Labour Market’, Leicester, UK.
• Golovushkina, E. & Milligan, C. (2012) ‘Analysing development of employability of doctoral candidates through Activity Theory lens’, Conference proceedings, Improving Student Learning conference, Lund, Sweden, p.48.
• Golovushkina, E., and Milligan, C., (2011). Developing employability skills of doctoral researchers in social sciences: exploring students’ perceptions. In Proceedings of the 2011 Conference of the European Association of Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI), pp.595-596. Exeter, UK.

Elena completed her studies in January 2013 successfully defending her thesis entitled:Employability development in the context of PhD studies: Exploring the views and experiences of key stakeholders. She is now working in Argentina.

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