Both programs combine
a traditional postdoctoral research experience with the development of pedagogical and time management skills through teaching assignments at a minority - serving institution.
Making the transition to a position of independence requires training beyond
the traditional postdoctoral research experience.
Overall, the report found that anywhere from 15 % to 33 % of science Ph.D. s ended up in
traditional postdoctoral research positions, depending on the discipline.
Not exact matches
Compared to the
research - only focus of a
traditional postdoctoral fellowship, SPIRE emphasizes the attainment of cutting - edge pedagogical skills (the art of teaching), professional development, and competitive
research training.
While the professional life of Spanish academics broadly goes through the four
traditional phases of predoctoral researcher (Ayudante),
postdoctoral researcher (Ayudante Doctor), lecturer, and finally permanent
research staff, it is early stage and transitional stage career scientists which have been identified as the most vulnerable.
Fewer than 25 % of
postdoctoral fellows now follow the
traditional route of becoming a
research professor at an academic institution.
«Our approach represents a different way of looking at leukemia and considers the entire bone marrow as an ecosystem, rather than the
traditional approach of studying and trying to directly kill the diseased cells themselves,» said Allison Boyd,
postdoctoral fellow with the
research institute and first author of the study.
The NIH sponsored PennPORT program combines a
traditional mentored
postdoctoral research experience at the University of Pennsylvania with a mentored teaching experience at a partnering institution.
Since the goal of this
postdoctoral program is to train Sun - Earth system researchers, preference is also given to
research projects that cross the
traditional Heliophysics subdomains of the Sun, heliosphere, magnetosphere, and ionosphere / upper atmosphere, as well as Sun - climate investigations.
Designed to nurture future leaders in science, the Whitehead Fellows program provides a handful of exceptionally talented young scientists the rare opportunity to set up an independent
research program as an alternative to a
traditional postdoctoral position.