scholarly journals In Defense of an Academic Career in Microbiology

mSphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick D. Schloss
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Academic Values

ABSTRACT The rise of Quit Lit describing the myriad reasons for leaving academia and constant complaining by mentors leave many trainees with little desire for an academic career. Although there are clearly structural and social problems in academia, I feel that they are outweighed by the benefits of working and living in an academic environment. Every academic values different things about their job, and here I outline the factors that keep me in academia. To make sure that our best scientists are not scared away from academia, we must provide balance to the negativity that regularly surrounds discussions of careers in academia.

Could Charles Darwin Teach Psychology in the 1980s?

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn K. Rigby
Keyword(s):  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Introductory Psychology ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Theoretical Position ◽  
Teaching Psychology ◽  
Psychology Course ◽  
Professional History

Despite the unlikelihood of Charles Darwin teaching psychology in this decade, implications of his personal and professional history for an academic career in psychology are fantasized. Relationships between his theoretical position and the content of an introductory psychology course he might teach and how he might fare in a contemporary academic environment are sketched in this fictionalized account.

Tower Power: Academics' Commitment to the Wealth Creation Mission

2002 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 337-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma Morris
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Academic Values ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
Depth Interviews

The adoption by universities in many countries of a mission of contributing to wealth creation and social benefit has raised questions, and also concerns, about its effects on academic research and academic researchers. This study used in-depth interviews to examine how a sample of academics in UK biological sciences departments were responding to this change. Although most were engaged in user-oriented research, much of it was undertaken to generate income and was on the periphery of their mainstream research. Their criteria for success continue to uphold traditional academic values. It is argued that the dominance of these values may disadvantage assistant staff working on industry-related projects and encourages a narrow view of postgraduate and postdoctoral research training as preparation solely for an academic career. Thus, for all the apparent readiness of research departments to engage with industry, their engagement appears strictly limited, and this may have implications for universities' performance of their mission in both research and training.

scholarly journals The physics of an academic career

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merry L. Lindsey ◽  
Lisandra E. de Castro Brás
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Career Plan ◽  
Successful Academic

We adopted well-known physics equations to illustrate concepts for developing a successful academic career plan. Formulas for distance, force, momentum, and power are used to explain how to define goals and set a pace that maximizes success potential. Formulas for synergy, balance, and stress are used to highlight common obstacles encountered by both junior (untenured and early career) and established faculty and provide ways to circumvent or limit damage from setbacks. Combined, these formulas provide tips for thriving in an academic environment.

scholarly journals TOWARDS A HISTORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN WOMEN HISTORIANS OF THE LATE 19TH — BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY: LEISURE AND RECREATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (49) ◽  
pp. 132-153
Author(s):  
Olga Sekenova ◽  
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Natalia Pushkareva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Women Scientists ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Women Historians ◽  
Fruitful Research

The article focuses on the study of the anthropology of everyday life of persons of intellectual labor. The subject of the study are the leisure peculiarities of the everyday life and home life of the first Russian women historians of the pre-revolutionary period, the variety of forms of free time available to the first women scientists among professional historians, as well as the budget and the ratio of their working and free time. Reflecting on the peculiarities in the study of the everyday life of the academic and teaching communities and describing the main forms of leisure of “learned ladies”, the authors give examples of how they organize and attend intellectual “evenings”, reading professional and fictional literature, forms of public engagement, including charitable activities. Various documents of personal origin—memoirs, diaries, personal correspondences of the first Russian women historians—made it possible to draw conclusions about the complex interweaving of free and working time in the life of women scientists, the flow of work into leisure and vice versa. The authors also demonstrate that the gradual entry of women into the male academic environment significantly influenced the practice of leisure: the contamination of work and rest was sometimes forced, and the adaptation to an academic career went, among other things, through the assimilation of appropriate leisure practices, which became an integral part of the lifestyle of women scientists. The marginalized position of the first Russian women historians forced them to try to keep being involved in social interactions. For this purpose, they sought to consolidate professional acquaintances at informal evenings, where it was possible to understand the unwritten rules of conduct and corporate norms of the academic environment. That said, the real joy for women was the presence of personal space in which they could devote themselves to the scientific process—engaging in fruitful research work.

scholarly journals A Faculty-Based Mentorship Circle: Positioning New Faculty for Success

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-75
Author(s):  
Janice Waddell ◽  
Jennifer Martin ◽  
Jasna Schwind ◽  
Jennifer Lapum
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Academic Appointment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Nature ◽  
Faculty Mentorship ◽  
Competing Priorities

Multiple and competing priorities within a dynamic and changing academic environment can pose significant challenges for new faculty. Mentorship has been identified as an important strategy to help socialize new faculty to their roles and the expectations of the academic environment. It also helps them learn new skills that will position them to be successful in their academic career. In this article, the authors report on the implementation and evaluation of a mentorship circle initiative aimed at supporting new faculty in the first two years of their academic appointment. Participants reported that the mentorship circle provided them with a culture of support, a sense of belonging, and a safe space to discuss concerns and learn strategies from both mentors and fellow mentees as they adjusted to their new position. The interdisciplinary nature of the mentorship circle further facilitated faculty members’ capacity to navigate their role as new faculty and foster colleagueship.  

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