Perceptions by early career tropical researchers on the impact of COVID‐19 six months into the pandemic

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand early career teachers’ perceptions of the impact of a pre-service health education programme on their health promotion practice in schools and the contextual factors that influence this. Design/methodology/approach Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 primary and secondary trainee and qualified teachers who had trained at a university in England. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings The teachers found the training to be a useful introduction, particularly when it was relevant to their practice. They valued gaining practical skills at university, on placement and in school once qualified. They reported that witnessing pupils’ lives in school had increased their awareness that health education is important. Their personal qualities, life experience, the school’s ethos and competing pressures influenced their practice. Teachers considered that building relationships with colleagues, pupils and parents facilitated health promotion, and that health education needs to be relevant to pupils. Some teachers expressed that teaching about health could be a “minefield”. They also discussed whether schools or parents are responsible for educating pupils about health issues and the place of health promotion within education’s wider purpose. Originality/value Few studies have followed-up trainee teachers once they are in teaching posts to explore the longer-term perceived impact of pre-service health education training. The findings suggest that teachers’ development takes place via an interaction between training and practice, suggesting that training could particularly aim to provide teachers with a contextualised understanding of health issues and practical experience.

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The impact of COVID-19 on mentoring early-career investigators

Medicine ◽

10.1097/md.0000000000027423 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 100 (40) ◽

pp. e27423

Author(s):

Mallory O. Johnson ◽

Monica Gandhi ◽

Jonathan D. Fuchs ◽

Lauren Sterling ◽

John A. Sauceda ◽

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Keyword(s):

Early Career ◽

The Impact

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The university-to-work transition: responses of universities and organizations to the COVID-19 pandemic

Personnel Review ◽

10.1108/pr-03-2021-0170 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

William E. Donald ◽

Melanie J. Ashleigh ◽

Yehuda Baruch

Keyword(s):

Organizational Behavior ◽

Early Career ◽

Career Services ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Content Type ◽

Work Transition ◽

Global Labor Market ◽

Career Literature ◽

The University ◽

The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to understand how universities and organizations have responded to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of preparing university students and recent graduates to enter the global labor market, using the accounting, banking and finance sector as a case study. The two research questions are (1) How can university career services and organizations work individually and collaboratively to best develop early career talent following the COVID-19 pandemic? (2) What are the challenges that university career services and organizations face when working individually or collaboratively to develop early career talent following the COVID-19 pandemic?Design/methodology/approachThe data for thematic analysis comes from 36 semi-structured interviews with career advisors (CAs) (n = 19) and graduate recruiters (GRs) (n = 17).FindingsThis study offers some of the first findings on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, helping to ensure that organizational behavior and career theory literature reflect the dramatically changing landscape in the university-to-work transition.Originality/valueTheoretically, our contribution comes from applying a framework of the career construction theory (CTT) within the context of a career ecosystem to understand the views of the intermediary, meso-level actors, which, to date, have lacked representation within career literature. Practically, we provide an insightful bridge between universities and organizations, offering opportunities for greater collaboration, and enhanced outcomes for all stakeholders.

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First person – Katie Lloyd and Stamatia Papoutsopoulou

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.047506 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. dmm047506

Keyword(s):

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

Transcriptional Responses ◽

Research Associate ◽

Experimental Approaches ◽

Postdoctoral Research ◽

The University ◽

University Of Manchester ◽

The Impact

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Katie Lloyd and Stamatia Papoutsopoulou are co-first authors on ‘Using systems medicine to identify a therapeutic agent with potential for repurposing in inflammatory bowel disease’, published in DMM. Katie conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. Chris Probert's lab at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. She is now a lecturer in pharmacology at the University of Chester, Chester, UK. Her research focuses on personalising medicine by combining innovative experimental approaches to identify biomarkers of inflammatory disease, drug response and mechanisms of drug resistance, which consider complex factors such as inter-patient variability and co-morbidities. Stamatia conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral research associate in Werner Muller's lab at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Mark Pritchard at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, investigating the regulation of transcriptional responses during inflammation and the impact of environmental factors on them, and has just accepted the position of assistant professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

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Resident Physician Experience and Duration of Electronic Health Record Use

Applied Clinical Informatics ◽

10.1055/s-0041-1732403 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (04) ◽

pp. 721-728

Author(s):

A. Jay Holmgren ◽

Brenessa Lindeman ◽

Eric W. Ford

Keyword(s):

Care Delivery ◽

Well Being ◽

Early Career ◽

Ambulatory Setting ◽

Care Experience ◽

Resident Physicians ◽

Physician Time ◽

After Hours ◽

Electronic Health ◽

The Impact

Abstract Background Electronic health records (EHRs) demand a significant amount of physician time for documentation, orders, and communication during care delivery. Resident physicians already work long hours as they gain experience and develop both clinical and socio-technical skills. Objectives Measure how much time resident physicians spend in the EHR during clinic hours and after-hours, and how EHR usage changes as they gain experience over a 12-month period. Methods Longitudinal descriptive study where participants were 622 resident physicians across postgraduate year cohorts (of 948 resident physicians at the institution, 65.6%) working in an ambulatory setting from July 2017 to June 2018. Time spent in the EHR per patient, patients records documented per day, and proportion of EHR time spent after-hours were the outcome, while the number of months of ambulatory care experience was the predictor. Results Resident physicians spent an average of 45.6 minutes in the EHR per patient, with 13.5% of that time spent after-hours. Over 12 months of ambulatory experience, resident physicians reduced their EHR time per patient and saw more patients per day, but the proportion of EHR time after-hours did not change. Conclusion Resident physicians spend a significant amount of time working in the EHR, both during and after clinic hours. While residents improve efficiency in reducing EHR time per patient, they do not reduce the proportion of EHR time spent after-hours. Concerns over the impact of EHRs on physician well-being should include recognition of the burden of EHR usage on early-career physicians.

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CEO career concerns and expectations management

Journal of Applied Accounting Research ◽

10.1108/jaar-10-2018-0168 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 267-289

Author(s):

Elio Alfonso ◽

Li-Zheng Brooks ◽

Andrey Simonov ◽

Joseph H. Zhang

Keyword(s):

Earnings Forecasts ◽

Early Career ◽

Career Concerns ◽

Career Stages ◽

Career Stage ◽

Content Type ◽

Expectations Management ◽

Reputational Capital ◽

The Impact ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of career concerns on CEOs’ use of expectations management to meet or beat analysts’ quarterly earnings forecasts. The authors posit that early career-stage CEOs are less (more) likely to use expectations management than are late career-stage CEOs if the market views expectations management as an opportunistic strategy (efficient process) due to reputational capital concerns. Design/methodology/approach The authors obtain data for CEO career stages and CEO compensation from ExecuComp, analyst earnings forecasts from the detailed I/B/E/S database, financial statement data from quarterly Compustat and stock returns from the daily CRSP database over the period 1992–2013. Findings The results are consistent with the opportunistic hypothesis and early-stage CEOs seeking to build reputational capital by avoiding the perception of engaging in an inefficient managerial strategy. The authors find robust evidence that late career-stage CEOs are more likely to engage in expectations management than early career-stage CEOs. Furthermore, the authors show that late career-stage CEOs tend to employ expectations management to boost the value of their equity-based compensation. Research limitations/implications The findings have important implications because the authors document a different implication of the “horizon problem” related to CEOs’ opportunistic forecasting behavior and the manipulation of analysts’ forecasts for CEOs who are approaching retirement. Practical implications The results have practical implications for analysts who provide earnings forecasts for firms whose CEOs are in early or late career stages and for investors who use such analysts’ forecasts in firm valuation models. Originality/value The authors contribute to the literature on expectations management by documenting how reputational incentives of CEOs affect the likelihood that managers engage in expectations management. The authors show that an important managerial incentive to engage in expectations management is CEO career concerns. Furthermore, the authors show that CEOs who are in early stages of their careers choose not to engage in expectations management due to the market’s perceived degree of opportunism pertaining to this strategy.

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Sexual violence during research: How the unpredictability of fieldwork and the right to risk collide with academic bureaucracy and expectations

Critique of Anthropology ◽

10.1177/0308275x20917272 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 173-193 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Luisa T Schneider

Keyword(s):

Sexual Violence ◽

Sierra Leone ◽

Academic Writing ◽

Early Career ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Competitive Disadvantage ◽

The Right ◽

The University ◽

The Impact ◽

Research Endeavour

In a contradictory fashion, researchers, their departments and universities simultaneously recognize the unpredictability of fieldwork experiences and outcomes and help establish a bureaucratic system of planning every component of their research. Ethnographic unpredictability and its consequences are a fact of fieldwork and it is essential that researchers and institutions are prepared to view these as part of interpretable data, to learn from them and not mask them. This article examines ethnographic unpredictability through the lens of sexual violence which I experienced during my doctoral fieldwork in Sierra Leone. I show how I redirected my research and renegotiated my position as an academic. I discuss the culture of risk and analyse the influence of neoliberalism on the university. I describe how ‘market logic’ conceptualizes unpredictability as competitive disadvantage. I show the impact that the imaginary ‘perfect academic’ has on early career researchers and the complicity of mainstream academic (re-)presentation in nourishing the image of the ‘in-control academic’ through muting personal field experiences and vulnerabilities and silencing unpredictable occurrences in academic writing. I conclude with recommendations on how personal situatedness, vulnerabilities, and transformations can be approached as factors in every research endeavour which must not pose threats to an institution’s competitive advantage.

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