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McAlpine, Lynn – Journal of Research Administration, 2020
An award as principal investigator (PI) is an aspiration for many post-PhD researchers. However, we know little of the actual journey from PhD graduation to achieving this goal. Using a qualitative narrative approach, this study explored how eight science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine post-PhD researchers (on contracts and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Education, Student Research, Educational Research
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Rikap, Cecilia; Harari-Kermadec, Hugo – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Between 2005 and 2015 a series of science, technology and innovation policies were deployed in Argentina among which academic research collaborations with industry was particularly fostered. This paper studies the effect of those policies on newer researchers, defined as those with PhD or postdoctoral scholarships, looking at their motivations to…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Researchers
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Ross, Randal G.; Greco-Sanders, Linda; Laudenslager, Mark; Reite, Martin – Academic Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: The National Institute of Mental Health funds institutional National Research Service Awards (NRSA) to provide postdoctoral research training. While peer-reviewed publications are the most common outcome measure utilized, there has been little discussion of how publications should be counted or what factors impact the long-term…
Descriptors: Postdoctoral Education, Graduate Study, Research, Training
Ray, Gordon N. – 1978
Information is presented on senior fellowships awarded in the United States from 1968 to 1977. Applicants for Guggenheim fellowships were asked to provide information on the applications they made to other fellowship programs in order to identify the major senior fellowship programs. The definition of "senior" was more than five years…
Descriptors: Faculty Fellowships, Federal Aid, Federal Government, Fellowships
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Commission on Human Resources. – 1975
The purpose of this document is to establish the nation's overall need for biomedical and behavioral research personnel. Dealing with a limited analysis of the current situation rather than with projections, the document provides data, observations, statements of principle and recommendations. Chapter two described training programs -- their…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Costs, Doctoral Programs, Educational Supply
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Commission on Human Resources. – 1978
The fourth in a series of annual reports assessing the role of and need for federal training programs in the biomedical and behavioral sciences is presented. Highlights of this 1978 report include: (1) the results of surveys of the chairpersons of 1,324 basic biomedical science departments and 474 behavioral science departments in Ph.D.-granting…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Behavioral Science Research, Bibliographies, Biological Sciences