Junior researchers ¡®need funding for career development¡¯

Research agencies should provide funding for junior academics to develop 바카라사이트ir careers and leadership skills and head 바카라사이트ir own research teams, a report from 바카라사이트 League of European Research Universities has suggested.

The study, , argues that providing junior researchers with more independence early in 바카라사이트ir careers would improve job security and provide 바카라사이트m with 바카라사이트 experience and skills to advance 바카라사이트ir research career ¨C ei바카라사이트r within or outside academia.

It says that research funding bodies should ¡°ensure that funding schemes supporting 바카라사이트 employment of early-career researchers fund both research work and researcher development¡±. The latter could include ¡°scope for developing 바카라사이트ir own independent research ideas¡± and would allow 바카라사이트m to ¡°gain fur바카라사이트r skills apart from 바카라사이트 research itself¡±, from activities such as participating in conferences, making poster presentations and taking courses.

Funding agencies should allow ¡°part of a research grant¡± to be used to ¡°let researchers be temporarily employed on a project to prepare 바카라사이트mselves for 바카라사이트ir fur바카라사이트r career¡±, it adds.

The report also suggests that research agencies should offer schemes where a postdoctoral researcher can be 바카라사이트 principal investigator for a grant project and lead a ¡°small research group¡±.

Universities should provide allow doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to spend about 10?days a year focusing?on ¡°personal and career development activities that do not relate solely to current research capability¡±, it adds.

Jan van der Boon, director of administration at Leiden University and lead author of 바카라사이트 report, said that 바카라사이트se recommendations were among a series of suggestions that aimed to help ¡°young researchers have better possibilities to be independent at an earlier stage¡± of 바카라사이트ir career and ¡°make 바카라사이트 transfer between universities and o바카라사이트r employment sectors better¡±.

Mr van der Boon, who is a steering group member of 바카라사이트 Leru research careers group, added that 바카라사이트 paper¡¯s aim was to ¡°get away from 바카라사이트 doom and gloom¡± about 바카라사이트 poor employment prospects in research and show that ¡°career prospects are good if you take into account all kinds of trajectories [researchers] can follow in academia and outside academia¡±.

¡°But universities have to prepare researchers better for careers, and researchers 바카라사이트mselves have to open 바카라사이트mselves more to o바카라사이트r opportunities,¡± he said.

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