scholarly journals C-DEBI NextGen 2019 Early Career perspective on ‘What’s Next?’: Upcoming Challenges and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Goordial ◽  
Sarah Hu ◽  
Benjamin Tully
Keyword(s):  
White Paper ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Substantial Portion ◽  
Deep Biosphere ◽  
Microbial Life ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Primary Focus

The deep biosphere (subsurface life, including below the seafloor in rocks and sediments) makes up a substantial portion of the planet and harbors vast amounts of microbial life. The Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) specializes in the exploration of microbial life, geochemistry, and hydrology in the subsurface (NSF-funded Science Technology Center). Since C-DEBI was established (2010), the number of scientists with a primary focus on deep biosphere research has increased within the last decade as a direct result of efforts from C-DEBI. The objective of this white paper is to present the broad ideas of what the future of deep biosphere research may look like, from the perspective of early career researchers (graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, pre-tenure faculty).

scholarly journals Overcoming fears: a pathway to publishing for early career researchers

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-351
Author(s):  
Nafsika Drosou ◽  
Monia Del Pinto ◽  
Mohammed A. Al-Shuwaili ◽  
Susie Goodall ◽  
Elisabeth Marlow
Keyword(s):  
Critical Factor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Participatory Workshop ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Scholarly Identity

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present reflections of five early career researchers on the challenges of journal publishing and how to tackle them. Design/methodology/approach The authors attended a participatory workshop on demystifying academic publications. Working individually and in groups the authors shared, discussed, analysed, visualised and ranked perceived challenges and opportunities concerning academic publishing. The authors then delved into the existing literature on the subject. Following their enhanced understanding of the area, the authors reflected on the experience and learnings. Findings Personal confidence relating to the development of a scholarly identity was found to be a critical factor in the attitude towards journal publishing. Supervisory and peer support, accessibility to journal editors, as well as opportunities to reflect on the writing, publishing and peer review processes through participatory workshops and writing groups, were deemed more effective than formal and conventional guidance schemes. Research limitations/implications This work adds to the available literature regarding the issue of academic publishing for PhD students and early career researchers. Originality/value The paper contributes to a deeper understanding of issues surrounding publishing apprehension, by laying out thoughts that are seldom expressed.

scholarly journals Challenges and opportunities for ELSI early career researchers

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Bell ◽  
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Mirko Ancillotti ◽  
Victoria Coathup ◽  
Sarah Coy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals First person – Judith Barbara Fülle

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (21) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cell Junctions ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Cell Matrix ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
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. Judith Barbara Fülle is first author on ‘ Desmosome dualism – most of the junction is stable, but a plakophilin moiety is persistently dynamic’, published in JCS. Judith is a PhD student in the labs of Christoph Ballestrem, David R. Garrod and E. Birgitte Lane at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester, UK and the Skin Research Institute of Singapore, Agency of Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, investigating the nature of cell–cell junctions, in particular the composition and regulation of desmosomes in health and disease.

scholarly journals Search results diversification for effective fair ranking in academic search

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham McDonald ◽  
Craig Macdonald ◽  
Iadh Ounis
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Viable Approach ◽  
Fair Ranking ◽  
Academic Search

AbstractProviding users with relevant search results has been the primary focus of information retrieval research. However, focusing on relevance alone can lead to undesirable side effects. For example, small differences between the relevance scores of documents that are ranked by relevance alone can result in large differences in the exposure that the authors of relevant documents receive, i.e., the likelihood that the documents will be seen by searchers. Therefore, developing fair ranking techniques to try to ensure that search results are not dominated, for example, by certain information sources is of growing interest, to mitigate against such biases. In this work, we argue that generating fair rankings can be cast as a search results diversification problem across a number of assumed fairness groups, where groups can represent the demographics or other characteristics of information sources. In the context of academic search, as in the TREC Fair Ranking Track, which aims to be fair to unknown groups of authors, we evaluate three well-known search results diversification approaches from the literature to generate rankings that are fair to multiple assumed fairness groups, e.g. early-career researchers vs. highly-experienced authors. Our experiments on the 2019 and 2020 TREC datasets show that explicit search results diversification is a viable approach for generating effective rankings that are fair to information sources. In particular, we show that building on xQuAD diversification as a fairness component can result in a significant ($$p<0.05$$ p < 0.05 ) increase (up to  50% in our experiments) in the fairness of exposure that authors from unknown protected groups receive.

Support early-career researchers for post-pandemic prospects

Nature ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 580 (7802) ◽  
pp. 185-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arild Husby ◽  
Gemma Modinos
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

Future Physiology 2019: Uniting early career researchers

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-25
Author(s):  
Katie Hesketh ◽  
Mark Viggars
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

scholarly journals Positioning for success: building capacity in academic competencies for early-career researchers in sub-Saharan Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Merritt ◽  
H. Jack ◽  
W. Mangezi ◽  
D. Chibanda ◽  
M. Abas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Academic Competencies ◽  
Sub Saharan

Background. Capacity building is essential in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to address the gap in skills to conduct and implement research. Capacity building must not only include scientific and technical knowledge, but also broader competencies, such as writing, disseminating research and achieving work–life balance. These skills are thought to promote long-term career success for researchers in high-income countries (HICs) but the availability of such training is limited in LMICs. Methods. This paper presents the contextualisation and implementation of the Academic Competencies Series (ACES). ACES is an early-career researcher development programme adapted from a UK university. Through consultation between HIC and LMIC partners, an innovative series of 10 workshops was designed covering themes of self-development, engagement and writing skills. ACES formed part of the African Mental Health Research Initiative (AMARI), a multi-national LMIC-led consortium to recruit, train, support and network early-career mental health researchers from four sub-Saharan African countries. Results. Of the 10 ACES modules, three were HIC-LMIC co-led, four led by HIC facilitators with LMIC training experience and three led by external consultants from HICs. Six workshops were delivered face to face and four by webinar. Course attendance was over 90% and the delivery cost was approximately US$4500 per researcher trained. Challenges of adaptation, attendance and technical issues are described for the first round of workshops. Conclusions. This paper indicates that a skills development series for early-career researchers can be contextualised and implemented in LMIC settings, and is feasible for co-delivery with local partners at relatively low cost.

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