Why are only
faculty scientists doing laboratory research being asked to obtain external funding to pay for their indirect expemses?
Not exact matches
Despite finding that underreporting continues to be what she wrote in two 2013 studies to be an «alarming» and «overwhelming» problem, Dr. Johna Register - Mihalik, a research
scientist and member of the
faculty at the Matthew Gfeller Sport - Related TBI Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recently told MomsTEAM that the reason she and her colleagues
did not recommend the use of impact sensors in addressing the problem was that she viewed «the use of impact sensors in concussion detection, as the science, although a growing field of information, [as] just not quite there in [terms of] how the [y] may best be used from a clinical standpoint and across all sport settings.»
Or perhaps institutions will come up with something truly radical — say, attracting
scientists by offering good salaries and appealing career ladders that don't involve
faculty status.
This view needs to change, and more positions need to be created for the increasing number of qualified
scientists who are not interested in opening their own labs or who
do not secure the few
faculty positions available.
If you're a Ph.D.
scientist who loves academia but doesn't want to become a professor, don't fret — there are plenty of diverse and challenging career paths to be pursued in institutions of higher learning that don't require a
faculty appointment.
I knew that
faculties in Canadian universities were starting to employ
scientists in «research officer» positions that were involved in grant writing, research, and fostering collaborations, but I
did not have a clear plan on how I could pursue a bioinformatics career in Canada.
At Spurgeon's institution, she says, staff
scientists don't have access to the professional resources that
faculty members, or even trainees,
do — such as grant writing support.
Second, by comparing the number of
faculty in the field to the number
doing a postdoc — which besides being a training phase also serves as a holding pattern for
scientists waiting and hoping for
faculty jobs — we can get an idea of whether Ph.D.
scientists have access to other career options they deem acceptable.
«I was married to a fellow
scientist, but the relationship deteriorated after I got a
faculty position (and he didn't).
U.S. District Court Judge James Ware threw out a discrimination claim in Crangle's suit last fall, but the jury ruled that Stanford had acted «with malice» toward Crangle, a part - time senior research
scientist who
did not hold a formal
faculty position.
I've spent the past decade building up academic credentials,
doing all the things a
scientist needs to
do to land a
faculty appointment.
This will aid aspiring
scientists in «figur [ing] out what they want to
do with their passion for science [despite] a system that can be hostile to aspirations other than
faculty jobs at R1 institutions,» McDowell continues.
For today's early - career researchers — students, postdocs,
faculty members, and staff
scientists —
doing science in countries other than their own is an increasingly common experience.
For Ph.D. - trained
scientists who
do not end up with
faculty positions, there are research opportunities in private or government institutions and industry.
Salaries vary widely, but don't undervalue yourself — postdocs in industry earn far more than their academic counterparts, and staff
scientist salaries are typically higher than those of junior academic
faculty.
I see myself as lucky that I got my
faculty job when I
did, and this is one of the reasons why I care a lot about alternative careers for
scientists.
For the predoctoral and junior
faculty members, of whom 10 from each group are accepted each year, they are given the opportunity to
do a rotation at a local industry laboratory to see what the intramural
scientists are
doing, how deals are negotiated, and what sort of applied skills are needed to work with industry.
There should be alternative routes that create niches for experimentalists and the increasing numbers of devoted
scientists who either
do not want to open their own labs or are not able to obtain one of the rare tenure - track
faculty positions.
For universities,
faculty scientists now are only a means to the end of increasing their profits (see: «Money now is Everything in Scientific Research at Universities»); the science
faculty presently is forced to spend too much time and emotional energy on trying to acquire more research grant awards, instead of actually
doing experiments to produce more new results.
(6) Inevitably, younger science
faculty working in this environment with hyper - competition start asking themselves, «Is this really what I wanted to
do when I worked to become a professional
scientist?»
Any
faculty scientist applying for research support from the National Science Foundation or the National Institutes of Health might not get awarded a research grant because one other
faculty scientist was lucky and
did get funded.