The future of work - A Different Lens (Generation Series)
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What are the professions of the future and what skills will employers seek?
As technology advances at an exponential rate, industries are looking for new skill sets from students. The skill sets of the future are going to be about creativity and problem solving, adaptability, decision-making, interacting and collaborating with others to solve messy problems. These are all fundamentally human skills that will become the new benchmark as artificial intelligence and huge data sets drive innovation in the workplace.
It’s the skills that the robots do not possess that will become most valuable to employers in all industries, from science to the humanities.
I think that every profession, biologists, lawyers, doctors, will have to have an IT knowledge component – Maria Garcia De La Banda, Faculty of Information Technology
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About the Authors
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Mahendhiran nair
Chief Executive, Monash Malaysia R&D Sdn Bhd; Vice-President (Research and Development), Monash University Malaysia
Mahendhiran is Chief Executive of Monash Malaysia R&D Sdn Bhd and Vice-President (Research and Development) at Monash University Malaysia. He's leading the development of multidisciplinary research platforms that contribute to the socioeconomic development of Malaysia and regional economies, and has established research collaboration with industry, enhancing translational research and development that contributes to nation building. He's been a subject matter expert for government agencies, public policy organisations and think-tanks in Malaysia and the Middle East.
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Rowan brookes
Education Director, Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences
Rowan's research interests centre on curriculum development, employability, educational technology and leadership in science education. In addition to her academic publications, she has written for The Scientific American, The Conversation, Huffington Post, Mamamia, Women's Agenda and The Australian.
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Ian smith
Professor, Vice-Provost (Res & Res Infrastructure)
Professor Ian Smith has responsibility for the oversight and management of Monash University's research alliances and research infrastructure. Ian is an accomplished medical researcher and is recognised as a leader in his field. His research applies proteomics technologies to study the proteases involved in the generation and metabolism of peptide regulators involved in both brain and cardiovascular function
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Rod glover
Professor of Policy and Impact, Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Rod specialises in large-scale innovation, at the levels of systems and societies. He works across policy, practice and research to support the design of innovation institutions and the development of innovation ecosystems. He is a Director of Save the Children Australia, the Centre for Evidence and Implementation, and the independent think tank Per Capita. He has also been a Director of the Victorian Government’s Centre of Excellence in Intervention and Prevention Science and the Australian Government’s National Sustainability Council. As Chair, he oversaw the growth of Hands on Learning Australia into a world-leading educational intervention.
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Jeremy barr
Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences and Centre to Impact AMR
Jeremy's group studies bacteriophage – viruses that infect bacteria – and specifically investigates the tri-partite symbioses formed between bacteriophage, their bacterial hosts and eukaryotic cells and surfaces. He oversees an experimental biology lab that utilises a range of cross-disciplinary techniques to investigate fundamental and mechanistic bacteriophage biology.
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Anton peleg
Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Director, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred Hospital and Monash University
Anton Y. Peleg is Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and the Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University. He is also a research group leader in the Department of Microbiology, Monash University. His research spans clinical to basic research, with a focus on hospital-acquired infections, antimicrobial resistance, infections in immunocompromised hosts and understanding mechanisms of disease caused by hospital pathogens.
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Maria garcia de la banda
Professor, Faculty of Information Technology
Maria has an outstanding international reputation as a researcher in the areas of logic programming, constraint programming, program analysis and transformation, and bioinformatics. She moved from Spain, where she earned an award-winning PhD in 1994, to Australia, to continue her research into a new constraint logic programming language designed to help people find optimal solutions to problems involving many possible choices. In 2009 Maria become the Head of the Caulfield School of Information Technology, and from 2013-2016 she served as Deputy Dean of Monash’s Faculty of Information Technology. She is a passionate advocate for gender equity in science, technology and engineering professions, and acts as a mentor for young women interested in pursuing STEM careers.
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