Education: Rethinking PhDs. Education: The PhD factory. Fix the PhD : Nature. Online image : Nature. Online reputations: Best face forward. Mapping the Future. Physics and Chemistry Postdoctoral Researchers’ Experiences and Career Intentions. The joint Institute of Physics and Royal Society of Chemistry project to investigate the experiences of postdoctoral researchers in UK physics and chemistry departments. The project explored postdoctoral researchers’ experiences and career intentions in the following areas: Motivation for undertaking postdoctoral researchNext career stepsLong-term career plansOpportunities for career developmentCulture of departments Summary report of the findings (PDF, 867 KB)Full report of the findings (PDF, 855 KB) Planning Scientific Career in Industry « ACS Careers Blog. I recently read “Planning a Scientific Career in Industry: Strategies for Graduates and Academics” by Sanat Mohanty and Ranjana Ghosh. Even though I am a tad bit removed from the start of my career in industry, I find it valuable to read books and articles that make me think about things in a new way.
Here are some of the things I thought about while reading this book – if you find them intriguing, you may want to check it out. Scientists as Knowledge Workers Scientists are knowledge workers – we combine expertise in a particular subject area with critical analysis skills. This means we have more flexibility than many other kinds of workers – we can apply the same analysis skills to a new area of knowledge, or learn new analysis skills in the same knowledge area.
As knowledge workers, our primary responsibility in industry is to solve problems, and in the best case to identify multiple solutions. Corporate Culture Career Development This article was written by Lisa M. Like this: