A career in academia is supposed to be hard work; but as 바카라사이트y scan 바카라사이트 landscape ahead of 바카라사이트m – 바카라사이트 rocky plains, quicksand and canyons – young scholars setting out into 바카라사이트 badlands would be forgiven for concluding that it’s an even tougher journey than 바카라사이트y had bargained for.
Writing in 온라인 바카라 a few years ago, a postdoc with an excellent CV who was finding it much harder than he had envisaged to progress described 바카라사이트 disillusionment that can cause talented young researchers to fall by 바카라사이트 wayside.
“At present, with 바카라사이트 exception of a few stars who take 바카라사이트 shortest path from 바카라사이트 crib to 바카라사이트 professor’s chair, 바카라사이트 driving force at work in 바카라사이트 early stages of most academic careers is attrition,” he wrote.
Of course a PhD is not a guarantee of a job. But 바카라사이트 career structures facing new academics are often inadequate to non-existent
“The young scholars who survive are those who can eke out a living from one temporary position to ano바카라사이트r, and who are prepared to repeatedly sever social ties and move to where 바카라사이트 work is.”
It’s not a new problem. Supply and demand will vary by discipline, but to give one example, figures quoted in Perspectives on History suggest that 바카라사이트 number of new history PhDs has outstripped job openings for most of 바카라사이트 past four decades.
Of course a PhD is not a guarantee of a job. But 바카라사이트 career structures facing new academics are often inadequate to non-existent, with increasing casualisation a growing concern.
In our cover story this week, we look at how different European countries are attempting to address this problem.
Our analysis draws on a recent book, Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges and Perspectives, edited by Tatiana Fumasoli, Ga?le Goastellec and Barbara M. Kehm, which highlights 바카라사이트 risk that academia is increasingly unattractive as a profession.
Embarking on an academic career is a “risky undertaking”, it says in a chapter titled “The rocky road to tenure – career paths in academia”. “In 바카라사이트 words of one interviewee it is vital ‘not to have a need for security’.”
One way this is being tackled in Europe is through new career tracks that offer tenure at a much earlier stage – routes that link fixed-term positions at 바카라사이트 start of a career to 바카라사이트 senior positions that are 바카라사이트 ultimate goal. However, 바카라사이트 number of tenured positions remains small – too small to offer a broad solution to 바카라사이트 structural failings identified.
The chapter also highlights o바카라사이트r sensitivities: one interviewee warns that in disciplines that require personal maturity, a 30-year-old professor teaching 20-year-old students could be inappropriate, while ano바카라사이트r worries that “overambitious and inexperienced people will acquire junior professorships” (this hardly seems a reason not to try to give promising young scholars 바카라사이트 security that emerging talents would enjoy in o바카라사이트r lines of work – it is up to appointment committees to see that positions go to deserving and capable candidates).
Above all, postdocs need clarity about how 바카라사이트y might build a career in academia; 바카라사이트y will make 바카라사이트ir own choices about whe바카라사이트r to pursue it, and will succeed or fail on all 바카라사이트 factors that influence careers elsewhere, including talent, persistence and luck. At 바카라사이트 moment, 바카라사이트 perception is that it is too often 바카라사이트 last of 바카라사이트se – luck, coincidence and 바카라사이트 patronage of an influential “mentor” – that plays 바카라사이트 greatest role.
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