scholarly journals We Are Standing Together in Front

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-80
Author(s):  
Sarah Maria Schönbauer
Keyword(s):  
Life Science ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
Competitive Funding ◽  
Funding Climate ◽  
Science Departments ◽  
Reputation Building

Reputation building and visibility represent pressing requirements for living and working in academia today. These demands have been key to the corporate world and are acted upon through ‘branding’ practices. ‘Branding’ has further been shown to impact on employees and workplace identities. In academia, researching identity work is especially important because of a competitive funding climate that requires research groups to resemble an outstanding image and reputation. At the same time, stable jobs are scarce, bringing forth insecure and volatile environments characterized for example by temporary limited contracts and required internationalisation in scientific careers. Based on ethnographic work in globally recognized life science departments, I explore how individual and departmental identities relate. Thereby, I propose the concept of ‘enrolling’, that conveys how a research unit acts as a ‘brand’, and show how ‘enrolling practices’ produces stability through coherence and distinctiveness in individual and collective identities. My analysis thus allows a critical reflection on academia and the re-orderings in today´s universities that create pervasive demands for living and working

scholarly journals Knowledgebases in postgenomic molecular biology

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
A.V. Lisitsa ◽  
B.V. Shilov ◽  
P.A. Evdokimov ◽  
S.A. Gusev
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Life Science ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Internet Resources

Knowledgebases can become an effective tool essentially raising quality of information retrieval in molecular biology, promoting the development of new methods of education and forecasting of the biomedical R&D. Knowledge-based technologies should induce "paradigm shift" in the life science due to integrative focusing of research groups towards the challenges of postgenomic era. This paper debates concept of the knowledgebase, which exploits web usage mining to personalize the access of molecular biologist to the Internet resources.

Collective identities and formal ideologies in the Irish grassroots pro-asylum seeker movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-72
Author(s):  
Niall Moran
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

This article examines the relationship between formal ideologies and processes of collective identity construction across two key waves of mobilisation of pro-asylum-seeker groups in Ireland, namely radical anti-racism and the multicultural support group. In each period, a formal ideological stance delimited the scope of actions available to members. In examining the interplay between collective identity and ideology, the actions and trajectories of individual social movement organisations (SMOs) and the movement at large can be better understood. Processes of collective identity construction facilitated SMO members in creating conditional senses of ‘weness’. In instances, these challenged formal ideologies with differing results. In the case of radical anti-racism, it created a reformist/radical division among members. In the multicultural support group, it created a reformist/non-reformist division. These cleavages are crucial to understanding how the movement progressed over time. Collective identity work is understood as a means through which individuals can challenge or reinforce formal ideologies, thus playing a crucial role in the trajectories of the SMOs examined and their repertoire of actions.

Creation of activating molecular device including energy conversion mechanism

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Kazushi Kinbara
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Life Science ◽  
Molecular Machines ◽  
Molecular Devices ◽  
Molecular Device ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tokyo Institute ◽  
Institute Of Technology

As technology has improved immeasurably over the past few decades, scientists have been able to do remarkable things that are directly inspired by molecules and macromolecules. Indeed, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa for designing and producing molecular machines. It seems almost inconceivable that such a thing could be achieved - synthetic molecules with controllable movements that are able to perform a task when energy is added. Although the science behind this achievement is extremely complex, the principle is actually quite simple. The molecular machine receives stimuli and reacts to it. These molecular machines exist biologically and are responsible for such things as DNA replication, but the Nobel Prize winners were able to create a synthetic version that converted chemical energy into motion. Of course, since then researchers around the world have started performing their own investigations to explore the potential of molecular engines and gain a full understanding of what they might facilitate in the future. Professor Kazushi Kinbara is the head of the Kinbara Group based within the School of Life Science and Technology at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Kinbara is currently working with a team of experts from 36 research groups based in approximately 30 Japanese Universities and Institutes to design and produce synthetic molecular devices which can perform autonomous functions based on energy conversion.

scholarly journals Outcomes of early NIH-funded investigators: Experience of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Haggerty ◽  
Matthew J. Fenton
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
Research Career ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Grant Applications ◽  
Competitive Funding ◽  
Nih Funding ◽  
Funding Climate ◽  
First Time

AbstractSurvival of junior scientists in academic biomedical research is difficult in today’s highly competitive funding climate. National Institute of Health (NIH) data on first-time R01 grantees indicate the rate at which early investigators drop out from a NIH-supported research career is most rapid 4 to 5 years from the first R01 award. The factors associated with a high risk of dropping out, and whether these factors impact all junior investigators equally, are unclear. We identified a cohort of 1,496 investigators who received their first R01-equivalent (R01-e) awards from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases between 2003 and 2010, and studied all their subsequent NIH grant applications through 2016. Ultimately, 57% of the cohort were successful in obtaining new R01-e funding, despite highly competitive conditions. Among those investigators who failed to compete successfully for new funding (43%), the average time to dropping out was 5 years. Investigators who successfully obtained new grants showed remarkable within-person consistency across multiple grant submission behaviors, including submitting more applications per year, more renewal applications, and more applications to multiple NIH Institutes. Funded investigators appeared to have two advantages over their unfunded peers at the outset: they had better scores on their first R01-e grants and they demonstrated an early ability to write applications that would be scored, not triaged. The cohort rapidly segregated into two very different groups on the basis of PI consistency in the quality and frequency of applications submitted after their first R01-e award. Lastly, we identified a number of specific demographic factors, intitutional characteristics, and grant submission behaviors that were associated with successful outcomes, and assessed their predictive value and relative importance for the likelihood of obtaining additional NIH funding.

Narrating “Made in Italy”

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Kohler ◽  
Sabina Perrino
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
National Brand ◽  
Italian Family ◽  
Corporate World ◽  
Family Histories ◽  
Moral Discourses ◽  
Made In

Abstract In this article, we examine how executives in Italian family-owned firms use their corporations’ histories to associate particular moral discourses of cultural values, responsibility, and authenticity with the “Made in Italy” brand. These links render Made in Italy a national brand – a brand representing all goods produced in Italy and an “authentic” national treasure. Through an analysis of Italian executives’ oral narratives, this article explores how collective identities are constructed in interview settings and how Made in Italy emerges through the various stances that these managers take regarding certain topics. We focus on the ways Italian executives align their corporate narratives, family histories, and brand identities with circulating ideologies on the significance of Made in Italy. By looking at how Italian managers enact Made in Italy as a national brand with collective responsibilities, this article contributes to recent research on narrative discursive practices in the corporate world.

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