On March 18, Kanazawa University the Strategic Project for Development of Doctoral Students and Research Promotion (HaKaSe?) and Educational and Student Affairs Department Career Support Office held the "Career Discovery Lecture" as the seventh session of the KU Doctoral Career Session 2023.
The Career Discovery Lecture is an opportunity for students to gain familiar role models through their experiences and to proactively consider doctoral study as an option. This time, we invited Dr. Sumiaki Machi (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Ph.D. Environmental Science), who is active in the Dinosaur Valley Fukui Katsuyama Geopark, and Dr. Tsuyoshi Hibino (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, M.S. Life and Earth Science), who is active in the Hakusan Tedorigawa Geopark, and hold a lecture and talk session. About 30 bachelor, master, doctoral students, faculty members and others participated in the lecture and talk session, both at the venue and online.
First, Dr. Machi gave a lecture entitled "A Certain Doctor's Way of Walking," in which he talked about his research, research methods, field research, as well as about his other activities since becoming a member of the Dinosaur Valley Fukui-Katsuyama Geopark. Then, Mr. Hibino introduced and explained the various activities of the Hakusan Tedorigawa Geopark.
During the talk session, Associate Professor Kento Aoki (moredator) from the Faculty of Regional Development Studies asked various questions and Mr. Machi and Mr. Hibino answered about the actual employment situation, the reasons why they went from a bachelor's program to a master's program, and their feelings when they considered going further to a doctoral program and the background of their job choice.
As advice to graduate school students and those who are thinking about going on to higher education, both speakers mentioned having a pillar in their mind and pursuing what they are interested in. In the Q&A session, students considering Geoparks as one of their career paths asked about the mismatch between their specialty and Geopark-related fields, depopulation, declining birthrate and aging population in the areas surrounding Geoparks, and professors answered how they are tackling and devising solutions to these problems.
Dr. Machi's and Dr. Hibino's stories were very informative and interesting to the audience, as they were the stories of senior scientists who have chosen a career path as interpreters between science and the general public, where they can utilize their field of study or engage in activities related to science.
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Mr. Machi talks about the appeal of Geoparks -
Mr. Hibino gives a lecture
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