Postdoctoral scholars are important members of the research community who make substantial contributions to research productivity. Three postdoctoral scholars at a Teaching and Learning Institute in Canada engaged in collaborative self-study to explore our initial experiences as postdoctoral scholars in the emerging fields of academic development…

Academic developers play a key role in advancing instructor engagement in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at their higher education institutions, but face structural and epistemological isolation. To leverage the knowledge and experience of developers leading SoTL efforts at their respective institutions, a group of academic…

Internationally, career prospects for postdocs, whether salaried on a Principal Investigator's (PI) grant or a fellowship, are precarious. Yet, many aspire to permanent research-teaching positions, and to achieve this goal they often strive to gain PI funding to demonstrate their research potential. Like many developers in research-intensive…