Áine O'Brien Chair, RAS Early Career Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 6.41-6.41
Author(s):  
Paul Johnson ◽  
Áine O'Brien

Abstract The former physics teacher, now studying martian meteorites at Glasgow, explains why early-career scientists need support now more than ever. Interview by Paul Johnson.

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunaryo .

Abstract: An Analysis of Physics Teachers’ Competencies in Implementing the School-Based Curriculum in State Vocational High Schools in Lampung Province. This study aims to investigate vocational high school physics teachers’ competencies in implementing the School-Based Curriculum. The sample consisted of 37 physics teacher from 27 state vocational high schools. Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that physics teachers’ competencies in physics learning are good and they can satisfy the standards in accordance with their educational backgrounds. However, they need support in the form of laboratory facilities to improve learning outcomes. They are expected to understand the fundamental knowledge including logical, analytic, and systemic thinking, and meet the competence standards in the educational system. They also need information technology facilities to enhance their teaching skills. Keywords: teachers’ competencies, the School-Based Curriculum


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Koelkebeck ◽  
Olivier Andlauer ◽  
Marton Asztalos ◽  
Nikolina Jovanovic ◽  
Olga Kazakova ◽  
...  

Clinical psychiatric practice should be intricately linked with research work. Although psychiatric trainees and early career psychiatrists (ECPs) are in the frontline of clinical services, little is known about how much access they have to research opportunities. A semi-structured questionnaire of 35 questions—exploring research goals achieved, facilitators and barriers as well as personal context—was sent to psychiatric trainees and ECPs across Europe. The survey was disseminated through the local committees of the main professional psychiatric societies in Europe. A total of 258 individuals working in 34 European countries participated. The majority (69.8%) were psychiatric trainees within training in adult psychiatry. Most participants (69.0%) were highly interested in research, but faced major obstacles toward their research activities, such as lack of time and funding. They were highly satisfied with mentoring and publishing papers. Only half of the participants, however, had already published a scientific article, and only a few have been able to contribute to randomized clinical trials (20.9%). A large proportion of participants (87.2%) reported to conduct research after or during a mixture of working hours and after working hours. Only one tenth ever received a grant for their work. These findings highlight that the key barriers for the performance of research are lack of time and funding. Psychiatric trainees and ECPs are motivated to perform research but need support and regular opportunities.


1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.


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