Ladders of Opportunity: Postgraduate Equity, Professions and the Academic Workforce

2016 ◽  
pp. 241-255
Author(s):  
Sharon Bell ◽  
Robyn May
Keyword(s):  
Academic Workforce

Academic Workforce in Dermatology

2007 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Olerud
Keyword(s):  
Academic Workforce

Changing Conditions for the Academic Workforce

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Huisman ◽  
Christine Teelken
Keyword(s):  
Academic Workforce

scholarly journals Research scholars: temp workers or lifetime students? The struggle and organization of subjectivities that are ‘in between’

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Davide Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Union Organizing ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Union Activity ◽  
Academic Workforce ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This article addresses the process of political organization and unionizing among university researchers in Italy which are formally considered to be ‘in training’. This condition puts them in a sort of liminal space, between being recognized as fully employed professionals and being instead considered lifetime students. Their effort to organize politically can be seen as one of many ways through which students are fighting against the establishment of the neoliberal university model. The analysis is focused on the Italian movement called CRNS - Coordinamento dei Ricercatori non Strutturati (Non-structured Research Fellows Coordination), which formed to address this defining issue. The CRNS experiment aimed at achieving a sense of unity among the fragmented academic workforce and it can be considered a prototype of a new, grassroots form of union activity and organizing. The empirical data used in the analysis consists of ten in-depth interviews with university researchers, all Italian citizens, equally divided between men and women, who have all had to move around, as a function of their career and who have all been involved, to different degrees, in political and union organizing initiatives, regarding their conditions of ‘perpetual students’ rather than ‘not quite employed’.

scholarly journals Clinical academic research in the time of Corona: a simulation study in England and a call for action

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amitava Banerjee ◽  
Michail Katsoulis ◽  
Alvina G. Lai ◽  
Laura Pasea ◽  
Thomas A. Treibel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
System Level ◽  
Clinical Activity ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Academic Workforce ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

AbstractBackgroundCoronavirus (COVID-19) poses health system challenges in every country. As with any public health emergency, a major component of the global response is timely, effective science. However, particular factors specific to COVID-19 must be overcome to ensure that research efforts are optimised. We aimed to model the impact of COVID-19 on the clinical academic response in the UK, and to provide recommendations for COVID-related research.MethodsWe constructed a simple stochastic model to determine clinical academic capacity in the UK in four policy approaches to COVID-19 with differing population infection rates: “Italy model” (6%), “mitigation” (10%), “relaxed mitigation” (40%) and “do-nothing” (80%) scenarios. The ability to conduct research in the COVID-19 climate is affected by the following key factors: (i) infection growth rate and population infection rate (from UK COVID-19 statistics and WHO); (ii) strain on the healthcare system (from published model); and (iii) availability of clinical academic staff with appropriate skillsets affected by frontline clinical activity and sickness (from UK statistics).FindingsIn “Italy model”, “mitigation”, “relaxed mitigation” and “do-nothing” scenarios, from 5 March 2020 the duration (days) and peak infection rates (%) are 95(2.4%), 115(2.5%), 240(5.3%) and 240(16.7%) respectively. Near complete attrition of academia (87% reduction, <400 clinical academics) occurs 35 days after pandemic start for 11, 34, 62, 76 days respectively – with no clinical academics at all for 37 days in the “do-nothing” scenario. Restoration of normal academic workforce (80% of normal capacity) takes 11,12, 30 and 26 weeks respectively.InterpretationPandemic COVID-19 crushes the science needed at system level. National policies mitigate, but the academic community needs to adapt. We highlight six key strategies: radical prioritisation (eg 3-4 research ideas per institution), deep resourcing, non-standard leadership (repurposing of key non-frontline teams), rationalisation (profoundly simple approaches), careful site selection (eg protected sites with large academic backup) and complete suspension of academic competition with collaborative approaches.

Report of the Executive Director

PMLA ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 125 (3) ◽  
pp. 820-840
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Employment Conditions ◽  
Convention Program ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Committee Membership ◽  
Academic Workforce ◽  
First Time

I Am Pleased to Report on the Association's Activities in 2009, a year in which the seventh edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers was published. The new edition, sent free to members, contains significant updates to MLA citation style and offers an electronic component for the first time. Another project in 2009, the Academic Workforce Advocacy Kit on the MLA Web site, brings together documents that equip members to work for long-term change in employment conditions. New online benefits of MLA membership include the Directory of Periodicals, a customizable convention program, and self-nomination forms for committee membership. Although the MLA, like all associations and academic institutions, has felt the effects of the economic recession, our membership and finances remained strong in 2009.

Report of the Executive Director

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 957-979
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Annual Convention ◽  
The Third ◽  
Academic Workforce ◽  
Style Manual ◽  
The Way

I am pleased to report on the association's activities in 2008. Highlights of the year's work include the release of a major report on the academic workforce; the completion of a project on undergraduate learning, supported by the Teagle Foundation; and the publication of the third edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. At the annual convention, hundreds of participants joined in a variety of sessions related to the theme of the Presidential Forum, “The Way We Teach Now.” Association finances and membership enjoyed a healthy year.

Clinical academic workforce continues to shrink

BMJ ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. j3352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abi Rimmer
Keyword(s):  
Academic Workforce

scholarly journals Building a strong academic workforce: Challenges for the profession

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Cusick ◽  
Elspeth Froude ◽  
Rosalind Bye ◽  
Lee Zakrzewski
Keyword(s):  
Academic Workforce
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