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Reach out to your local career ambassador

As part of Health's extensive career development package, the faculty management has appointed 12 career ambassadors. Read more about the initiative and how two of the ambassadors relate to their new role.

The career ambassadors offer impartial career guidance and are especially to provide younger researchers with clarity on the career paths available at the faculty. In the picture: Christian Lindholst, Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen, Ask Vest Christiansen, Lene Baad-Hansen, Kim Henningsen, Anette De Thurah, Alma Becic Pedersen, Lene Niemann Nejsum og Ludvig Muren.
The career ambassadors offer impartial career guidance and are especially to provide younger researchers with clarity on the career paths available at the faculty. In the picture: Christian Lindholst, Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen, Ask Vest Christiansen, Lene Baad-Hansen, Kim Henningsen, Anette De Thurah, Alma Becic Pedersen, Lene Niemann Nejsum og Ludvig Muren. Photo: Sebastian Skousgaard, AU Health.

Health's 12 career ambassadors are anchored locally at the institutes, and they all have in-depth knowledge of their respective academic environments.

Your local career ambassador is available for general career guidance and advice on competence development. The ambassadors can also refer to offers from The Kitchen and AU Career PhD & JR.

You can see who the career ambassador at your institute is on the faculty’s new career development website.

Here are your career ambassadors:

  • Department of Clinical Medicine: Ludvig Muren, Lene Niemann Nejsum, Alma Becic Pedersen, Anette De Thurah, Diego Vidaurre Henche

  • Department of Biomedicine: Kim Henningsen

  • Department of Dentistry and Oral Health: Lene Baad-Hansen

  • Department of Public Health: Ask Vest Christiansen, Charlotte Delmar, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Cecilia Ramlau-Hansen

  • Department of Forensic Medicine: Christian Lindholst

“There is a world of opportunities – also outside of AU”

Professor Charlotte Delmar from the Department of Public Health is one of the newly appointed career ambassadors. She researches care, ethics, and relationships and has many years of experience in management and consulting. She is also the section leader for both the nursing and general medical fields at the Department.

Charlotte Delmar is particularly passionate about advising young researchers and supporting their professional development, which is why it comes naturally to her to take on the role of career ambassador.

“Ever since I was employed at Aarhus University, I have made a great effort to support the young researchers and tried to help them in the right direction in terms of what they wanted to do. I have been employed both in the clinic and at the university and have a broad outlook in terms of potential career paths,” she says.

It can be difficult to be young in the world of research, and the insecurity that comes with a research career at the university is very much a concern for Charlotte Delmar.

“There is not room for everyone in the academic world. And by that, I mean that we as career ambassadors can try to inspire and offer alternatives that can be just as good or maybe even better for the individual,” says Charlotte Delmar and continues:

“But it is also important to motivate. I have had competent leaders and advisors who believed in me, right from when I was a young teacher in the nursing undergraduate program. What has meant the most for my career have been the people who listened to me and believed in me.”

Charlotte Delmar's greatest hope for the role of career ambassador is that she can pass on her enthusiasm and commitment to the nursing profession and show that there exists a world of opportunities – also outside the university.

“A lot of what we work with in nursing and general medicine is about relationships. There is a huge need for this in other contexts, for example in teaching and management, and my own career has by no means followed a straight academic path,” she says.

“I have also felt quite alone myself”

Another of the newly appointed career ambassadors is Kim Henningsen from the Department of Biomedicine. He has worked as a Lab Manager and will soon enter a more administrative position at the institute.

“I believe that we as career ambassadors can make a big difference for the well-being of the younger researchers. I would like to help reduce the feeling of uncertainty about the future, which I myself felt when I was new to the university world,” says Kim Henningsen.

Kim Henningsen has a different professional profile than most of the other career ambassadors, who are typically employed as lecturers or professors. He sees this as an advantage.

“I hope that by sharing my own experiences, I can contribute to creating more peace of mind for the young researchers. And give them a kind of security in that the position they now hold can take them many places and be a springboard to all sorts of different things,” he says.

Guidance from a career ambassador is intended as a supplement to conversations with the nearest leader, and Kim Henningsen clearly sees the need to be able to have these kinds of impartial conversations without conflicts of interest.

“How open can you be about your personal wishes and dreams when you are sitting in front of someone who has an interest in keeping you in the department? You also do not want to ruin your chances where you are now. I have been in that situation myself, and I have felt quite alone, so I am happy to now be able to help others,” he says.

Read more about Health's new career development plan in the article “The faculty is launching a comprehensive career development package”.

Contact

Professor Charlotte Delmar
Aarhus University, Department of Public Health
Mobile: 31 61 18 79
Email: cd@ph.au.dk

Lab Manager Kim Henningsen
Aarhus University, Department of Biomedicine
Mobile: 40 50 73 77
Email: kh@biomed.au.dk

Revised 03.07.2024
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Web team at Health