scholarly journals Development Support of Early Career Researchers in the Netherlands: Lessons for Australia

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110475
Author(s):  
Craig P. Speelman
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Early Career ◽  
University System ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
High Level ◽  
Australian Universities

Australian universities are faced with the imminent retirement of a large proportion of their researchers. One way to avoid a decrement in research performance is to consider greater support for early career researchers (ECRs). To investigate how another university system that is ranked high in research performance supports its ECRs several universities in the Netherlands were visited. Seventeen senior academic staff in these universities were interviewed to examine their perceptions of the support that is provided for the development of ECRs, and the nature of the research environment in which they are employed. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and coded using a thematic analysis procedure that was guided by the IPA framework to identify common themes amongst the views of the interviewees. Several features of the Dutch university system were identified as different to the Australian system and which the interviewees suggested were responsible for the high level research performance exhibited by their universities. These include the organization of universities by chair groups that are responsible for both research and teaching in a subject area, tenure track systems, and generous financial and material support for developmental activities. On the basis of these findings, I recommend Australian universities consider revising the support they provide to ECRs to be more aligned with what is provided in the Dutch system.

First person – Anne Janssen

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (19) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Nuclear Envelope ◽  
Human Disease ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Selective Autophagy ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Anne Janssen is first author on ‘ Direct observation of aggregate-triggered selective autophagy in human cells’, published in JCS. Anne conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Lukas Kapitein's lab at Division of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is now a FEBS long-term fellow in the lab of Delphine Larrieu at Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, UK, where she is currently interested in the nuclear envelope and how problems in maintaining nuclear integrity can cause human disease.

It takes a village to raise an ECR

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynette Browning ◽  
Kirrilly Thompson ◽  
Drew Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Track Record

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe organisational strategies that support early career researchers in building a successful track record which can lead to a successful academic research career. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws on more than a decade of experience designing, implementing and evaluating professional development programmes for early career researchers in universities. Findings If an early career researcher is to achieve long-term success, the first five years after graduating with a doctorate are critical in establishing long-term career success. Professional development programmes for early career researchers are more successful if they are supported by organisational strategies around workload, performance management and accountability. Originality/value If implemented, these organisational strategies can assist early career researchers to build a successful track record, which can lead to a successful research career and contribute towards increasing aggregate institutional research performance for universities.

scholarly journals First person – Jenny Vermeer and Jonathan lent

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. dmm046292
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Lineage Tracing ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Project Leader ◽  
Novel Treatments ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

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. Jenny Vermeer and Jonathan lent are co-first authors on ‘A lineage-tracing tool to map the fate of hypoxic tumour cells’, published in DMM. Jenny conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Ruth Muschel at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. She is now a project leader in the lab of Miranda van der Lee at Byondis, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, investigating new targets, particularly in cancer, that will lead to novel treatments. Jonathan is a PhD student in the lab of Marc Vooijs at Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, investigating new cancer targets and testing possible new interventions with a focus on tumour hypoxia.

scholarly journals Writing a strong scientific paper in medicine and the biomedical sciences: a checklist and recommendations for early career researchers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Payam Behzadi ◽  
Márió Gajdács
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
The One ◽  
Medical Programs

AbstractScientific writing is an important skill in both academia and clinical practice. The skills for writing a strong scientific paper are necessary for researchers (comprising academic staff and health-care professionals). The process of a scientific research will be completed by reporting the obtained results in the form of a strong scholarly publication. Therefore, an insufficiency in scientific writing skills may lead to consequential rejections. This feature results in undesirable impact for their academic careers, promotions and credits. Although there are different types of papers, the original article is normally the outcome of experimental/epidemiological research. On the one hand, scientific writing is part of the curricula for many medical programs. On the other hand, not every physician may have adequate knowledge on formulating research results for publication adequately. Hence, the present review aimed to introduce the details of creating a strong original article for publication (especially for novice or early career researchers).

scholarly journals First person – Jaeike Faber

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. bio058592
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Embryonic Heart ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Evolution And Development ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jaeike Faber is first author on ‘Quantified growth of the human embryonic heart’, published in BiO. Jaeike is a PhD student in the lab of Vincent Christoffels in the Department of Medical Biology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, investigating evolution and development.

scholarly journals First person – Aini Gusmira

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (19) ◽  
pp. jcs254656
Keyword(s):  
Cell Membrane ◽  
Staff Member ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cholesterol Depletion ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Aini Gusmira is first author on ‘Regulation of caveolae through cholesterol-depletion-dependent tubulation mediated by PACSIN2’, published in JCS. Aini conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Student in Shiro Suetsugu's lab at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan. She is now an academic staff member in the lab of Dr Anton Bahtiar at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Indonesia, investigating the role of the cell membrane in disease processes.

scholarly journals Using successful graduates to improve the quality of undergraduate nursing programs

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Scott ◽  
Esther Chang ◽  
Leonid Grebennikov
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Clinical Placements ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Case Based Learning ◽  
High Level

This paper outlines the context and focus of the late 2008 survey of 45 early career nursing graduates working in public hospitals in an outer-urban area of Sydney who were identified by their supervisors as performing successfully. It gives an overview of the key quantitative and qualitative results for 2008 compared with the results of earlier studies of successfully performing nurses and other professionals in the first 3-5 years of their career. Based on this analysis it makes a range of recommendations on how to optimise the quality and relevance of the learning design, support and assessment systems experienced by undergraduate nursing students. The study confirms that, in addition to possessing a high level of technical competence, it is a particular combination of personal, interpersonal and cognitive capabilities which characterises the most effective performers. The most productive approaches to developing these capabilities focus on: consistent two-way links between theory and practice; the availability of responsive, committed academic staff with current clinical experience; provision of clear direction and integration between different units of study; the systematic use of case-based learning, simulations, clinical placements and associated assessment tasks which are a "real world" focused, integrated and problem-based, and which concentrate on the key capabilities identified as counting most for successful early career practice in this and parallel studies.

scholarly journals First person – Chujun Zhang

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (17) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
S2 Cells ◽  
Body Formation ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Drosophila S2 Cells ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Chujun Zhang is first author on ‘ Activation of IRE1, PERK and salt-inducible kinases leads to Sec body formation in Drosophila S2 cells’, published in JCS. Chujun is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Catherine Rabouille at Hubrecht Institute of the KNAW and UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, investigating pathways leading to stress assemblies formation.

scholarly journals First person – Rebecca Rolfe

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Trinity College ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
Environmental Cues ◽  
First Person ◽  
Joint Development ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT First 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. Rebecca Rolfe is first author on ‘Joint development recovery on resumption of embryonic movement following paralysis’, published in DMM. Rebecca is a Research and Teaching Fellow in the lab of Prof. Paula Murphy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, investigating the role environmental cues play in the correct development of cells and tissues during embryonic development.

scholarly journals Insights From Setting up the First Wave of a Qualitative Longitudinal Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692095405
Author(s):  
Mag. Dr. Veronika Wöhrer ◽  
MMag. Dr. Andrea Jesser ◽  
Barbara Mataloni ◽  
Andre Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Young People ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Master's Students ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research And Teaching

In this paper we describe and reflect upon the process of setting up the first wave of a complex qualitative longitudinal study with young people in Vienna. We explain the project’s agenda, design, and organizational structure connecting experienced and early career researchers with master’s students. In particular, we describe the tools used to coordinate the research, the challenges and benefits of blending research and teaching, and the materials and strategies we employed to ensure data quality and self-reflexivity. We conclude with reflections upon ethical challenges associated with incorporating marginalized young people into the research within the context of school, especially concerning pseudonymization, informed consent, and hierarchical settings shaping the research.

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