scholarly journals Skill Needs for Early Career Researchers—A Text Mining Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Mihaela Maer-Matei ◽  
Cristina Mocanu ◽  
Ana-Maria Zamfir ◽  
Tiberiu Marian Georgescu
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Data Handling ◽  
Job Requirements ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Job Selection ◽  
Shed Light

Research and development activities are one of the main drivers for progress, economic growth and wellbeing in many societies. This article proposes a text mining approach applied to a large amount of data extracted from job vacancies advertisements, aiming to shed light on the main skills and demands that characterize first stage research positions in Europe. Results show that data handling and processing skills are essential for early career researchers, irrespective of their research field. Also, as many analyzed first stage research positions are connected to universities, they include teaching activities to a great extent. Management of time, risks, projects, and resources plays an important part in the job requirements included in the analyzed advertisements. Such information is relevant not only for early career researchers who perform job selection taking into account the match of possessed skills with the required ones, but also for educational institutions that are responsible for skills development of the future R&D professionals.

eMentoring a Community of Early Career Researchers to Support and Enable Research Integrated Learning and Professional Skills Development for Undergraduate Medical Science Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake Cochran ◽  
Patsie Polly ◽  
Gwyn Jones ◽  
Anna Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Assessment Task ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Undergraduate Science

Undergraduate student research skills development as part of coursework is challenging. The Research Impact Symposium is an assessment task that is authentic to the discipline of pathology and medical science research within a specialist third year pathology course, Molecular Basis of Disease PATH3205. PATH3205 is offered to science undergraduates at the UNSW Sydney, Australia. This assessment task explicitly addresses the issue of research skills development by developing research practice, teamwork, communication and critical thinking skills for undergraduate science students within a community of research practice. The aims of this study were to evaluate the effectiveness of the eMentoring initiative. Specifically, to investigate research integrated learning and career development learning, to create a Medical Science Research Community and to implement the use of cloud-based communication and collaboration tools, Slack and Microsoft Teams to facilitate the eMentoring of students, as well as support the mentoring community. Key outcomes from the overall approach included mentoring and enabling early career researchers to work with undergraduate science students in mentoring their learning of research skills. Importantly, it aided in scaffolding third year undergraduate students for success in an authentic assessment task by learning and engaging with research integrated learning and career development learning.Furthermore, the shift to remote learning and teaching in 2020 presented the opportunity to develop digital literacy and professional online skills collaboratively and collegially for all members of this community: as students, early career researchers and course leads upskilled together pre-COVID-19 and in response to a rapid transition to remote learning.

scholarly journals First person – Anthony Agudelo

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. bio057216
Keyword(s):  
Motor Neuron ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Age Dependent ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
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. Anthony Agudelo is first author on ‘Age-dependent degeneration of an identified adult leg motor neuron in a Drosophila SOD1 model of ALS’, published in BiO. Anthony conducted the research described in this article while an undergraduate Research Assistant in Dr Geoff Stilwell's lab at Rhode Island College, Providence, USA. He is now a Research Assistant in the lab of Dr James Padbury at Rhode Island College, Providence, USA, investigating using computational biology methods to shed light on the pathology of complex diseases.

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.

Tradition and Innovation in Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts

2021 ◽  
Vol 139 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-58
Author(s):  
Orietta Da Rold
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Training

Abstract In this essay, I offer a brief history of manuscript cataloguing and some observations on the innovations this practice introduced especially in the digital form. This history reveals that as the cataloguing of medieval manuscripts developed over time, so did the research needs it served. What was often considered traditional cataloguing practices had to be mediated to accommodate new scholarly advance, posing interesting questions, for example, on what new technologies can bring to this discussion. In the digital age, in particular, how do digital catalogues interact with their analogue counterparts? What skills and training are required of scholars interacting with this new technology? To this end, I will consider the importance of the digital environment to enable a more flexible approach to cataloguing. I will also discuss new insights into digital projects, especially the experience accrued by the The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 Project, and then propose that in the future cataloguing should be adaptable and shareable, and make full use of the different approaches to manuscripts generated by collaboration between scholars and librarians or the work of postgraduate students and early career researchers.

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