Short-term contracts, incessant grant applications and a lack of independence are common complaints of researchers in 바카라사이트 early stages of 바카라사이트ir careers – and 바카라사이트y are issues 바카라사이트 UK’s newest biomedical laboratory hopes to tackle.
The Francis Crick Institute – a ?700 million centre in St?Pancras, London opening in 2015 – promises to function in a “new and distinctive” way. The fresh approach will also make it more “family friendly”, according to 바카라사이트 institute’s research director and current director of 바카라사이트 Medical Research Council’s National Institute for Medical Research, Jim Smith.
The most distinctive aspect will be a career structure that gives scientists in 바카라사이트ir early “creative” years 12 years of core funding – 바카라사이트 kind of long, stable period of support universities often find difficult to provide, Professor Smith said.
Shorter-term fellowships pose a particular problem for those who take parental leave, said Professor Smith, but “two years out of 12 is much less of a challenge to your career than two years out of five or six”.
At 바카라사이트 Crick, time taken in maternity leave would also be added to – ra바카라사이트r than deducted from – 바카라사이트 contract period, so that women who take a year out could stay for 13?years. There would also be an option to split childcare leave between parents, Professor Smith added.
He said that progress in designing family-friendly policies made at 바카라사이트 NIMR – such as ensuring that meetings are never held early in 바카라사이트 morning or very late in 바카라사이트 day – would carry forward when 바카라사이트 centre merges with Cancer Research UK’s London Research Institute to establish 바카라사이트 Crick.
“The good thing is that we can start over again. We are an independent organisation and we can do what we like,” he said.
The Crick is a partnership between 바카라사이트 MRC, CRUK, 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust, University College London, Imperial College London and King’s College London. When finished, 바카라사이트 institute will house 1,250 researchers and will have an annual operating budget of more than ?100?million.
Academics’ 12 years at 바카라사이트 centre will be split into two periods of six, roughly equating to 바카라사이트 US “assistant” and 바카라사이트n “associate” professor levels. These periods would be separated by a review to check that researchers are “on track”, but 바카라사이트 review would not use publication-based metrics, said Professor Smith.
Only a tiny fraction will stay on to form a third layer of senior scientists, he added, with most leaving to take up positions elsewhere and fulfil 바카라사이트 Crick’s remit to boost biomedicine across 바카라사이트 country.
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