Postdocs
Often confused as either students or faculty, this ‘in between’ position is vital to the academic ecosystem.
If you are considering a postdoctoral fellowship, know that you may have to juggle relocation and a potential lack of resources and emotional support network.
It is not enough to have a postdocs’ association at your institution – they require a voice, power and influence to make important changes for future researchers.
Choosing the right one depends on your specific academic background, lived experience, personal interests and career goals.
Four steps graduate students, postdocs and their allies can take to advance equality.
The neuroscientist is gearing up to cover topics from open, team-based science to putting EDI to work in the field.
Strategies and resources for grad students and postdocs to increase the relevance of word-of-mouth referrals and internet-based research.
Like personal goals, professional benchmarks can guide self-evaluation and setting targets for improvement.
When mentorship skills are a major influence on student success in STEM, how do you develop training that meets that challenge?
Redefining how university and institutional administrations see this vulnerable population of highly skilled workers is an important first step toward countering inequity and mending the gender gap in academia.
Postdocs recount three key elements in their strategy that led to their unionization efforts.
Indexing scholarships and stipends is a simple yet effective way to maintain early career researchers’ standard of living.
Rebecca Maymon of Adoc Talent Management explains how the PhD employment landscape is shifting.
If you’re a postdoctoral fellow funded by the institution where you work, you’re an employee, full stop.
The Intersectoral Student Committee in Quebec findings reveal that postdocs face financial and professional instability, among other challenges.
Many scientists are leaving academe, but why they leave and who remains will have substantial implications for how we train future scientists.
Postdoctoral fellows are a unique group and they need career advice tailored specifically to them.
The association representing postdocs unveiled four key policy recommendations at a conference in Ottawa.
These relatively recent initiatives deserve recognition for helping the scientific community.