John R. Hershey is a senior principal member
of the research staff at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Boston, where he leads the speech and audio team.
CAREER After four years as a
member of the research staff at the Communications Research Division of the Institute for Defense Analyses he was appointed chairman of the math's department at Stony Brook University.
The International
Consortium of Research Staff Associations (ICoRSA) would like to see more transparency in the fund's investment plan and more flexibility and guarantees for researchers, the organization says in a position statement sent to ScienceInsider today.
If a civilised discussion with your supervisor fails to resolve the problem, you should try to get objective advice from someone else, says Janet Metcalfe, head of Vitae, an organisation devoted to advancing the
careers of research staff and doctoral researchers.
In another recent statement, FJI / Precarios pointed to delays in issuing the final list of candidates selected for mobility grants as part of the Program for the
Training of Research Staff (FPI).
Last Thursday, Vitae — an organization supported by research funding bodies, that promotes the professional development of early - career researchers in the United Kingdom — released two reports exploring the working conditions and career
development of research staff (mainly postdocs) and principal investigators (PIs) in higher education.
While 43 %
of research staff aged 45 or over had open - ended contracts, a large proportion of those who were still employed on a fixed term had contracts lasting a year or less — even after long service to their institutions.
Compared to 2011, a larger
proportion of research staff reported working as part of a cross-disciplinary team (59 % versus 54 %) or in an international collaboration (66 % versus 61 %).
Iain Cameron, head of the Research Careers and Diversity Unit of Research Councils UK, acknowledges that universities need to do more to recognize the
importance of research staff.
Thousands of research staff in Catalonia get their salaries from Madrid, and the region, which is home to 16 % of Spain's population, receives about 24 % of Spanish subsidies for R&D and innovation.
Eng.D.s work best, he says, if the candidate is based in a fairly large company with
plenty of research staff and a good support structure, and when all the projects have a central thread.
Development of educational activities with the
collaboration of research staff to improve presentation and reproducibility of scientific data, including image handling and statistics
Before joining Anova Law Group, Dr. Zhang was a
member of research staff in Xerox Innovation Group at Xerox Corporation.
PRESENTERS: Viktoria Bodnarova, M.A., Regional Representative, EURAXESS North America; David J. Proctor, Ph.D., Board of Directors, International
Consortium of Research Staff Associations (ICORSA); Sina Safayi, D.V.M., Ph.D., Assistant Director of Career Development, MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
But while PIs expressed the belief that good research leaders support the
careers of their research staff, they admitted that, in practice, they're not very good at it themselves, Mellors - Bourne says.
I emailed Josh McDowell about the quote in his book, and here is the response I received back from one
of his research staff:
In their study, Dr. Ishii and a member
of his research staff, Motoko Araki, present four regulatory models in order to resolve the indistinct regulatory boundaries that genome editing has created in GMO regulations.
Hammett first came to PPPL as a summer college student in 1979 and began his career at the Laboratory the following year, first as a graduate student and then as a member
of the research staff, which he joined in 1986 after completing his Ph.D..
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Caruso said a member
of his research staff had been looking closely at new patents filed by Nike about five years ago for robot - based manufacturing technologies «that in the moment didn't seem important to other analysts.»