That's a common strategy for new postdoc-dads, says Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, director of postdoctoral affairs at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who serves on a National Academy of Sciences committee examining the postdoctoral experience.
Whereas now I do hear about postdocs who are looking for work, " says Yvonne Paterson, dean for postdoctoral research training and director of the biomedical postdoctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
But many postdocs are unaware of these resources--sources of information and guidance--according to preliminary data from the Sigma Xi postdoctoral survey, as project director Geoff Davis pointed out.
That's bad because foreign postdocs "tend to be much further from home, and … have to deal with these issues far from their normal supports," says Jennifer Oh, director of postdoctoral scholar affairs at the University of California, San Diego.
This stigma can be especially harmful for foreign postdocs because they "tend to be much further from home, and … have to deal with these issues far from their normal supports," says Jennifer Oh, director of postdoctoral scholar affairs at University of California, San Diego.
Sibby Anderson Thompkins, director of postdoctoral affairs at University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, advises using the National Postdoctoral Association's Core Competencies document and the checklist at the end of it (scim.ag/1pmZp9l) as a concrete way to discuss professional development and specific skills goals with postdoctoral advisors.
TK is Postdoctoral Researcher and MR Research Director at the FNRS.
The registry center has an epidemiologist as the director, a postdoctoral research fellow and eight cancer registrars.
This study was supported by the US Department of Energy Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research (to CE, SL, PCM, JY, and RG); the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (LT, JU, and JY); and a National Renewable Energy Laboratory Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship (WXiong).
JD, CIHR postdoctoral fellow, and SB, Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, provided expertise that informed the evaluation design, undertook the data analysis, supported the interpretation of results, and led on drafting of the manuscript.
