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Diverse and inclusive marine research is paramount to addressing ocean sustainability challenges in the 21st century, as envisioned by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Despite increasing efforts to diversify ocean science, women continue to face barriers at various stages of their career, which inhibits their progression to leadership within academic institutions. In this perspective, we draw on the collective experiences of thirty-four global women leaders, bolstered by a narrative review, to identify practical strategies and actions that will help empower early career women researchers to become the leaders of tomorrow. We propose five strategies: (i) create a more inclusive culture, (ii) ensure early and equitable career development opportunities for women ECRs, (iii) ensure equitable access to funding for women ECRs, (iv) offer mentoring opportunities and, (v) create flexible, family-friendly environments. Transformational, meaningful, and lasting change will only be achieved through commitment and collaborative action across various scales and by multiple stakeholders.

Mentorship is the formal or informal relationship that empowers the less experienced professional with guidance from the more experienced professional. Mentorship can be used as a part of andragogy. This autoethnography presents my lessons about academic research mentoring, as a university teacher who supervised multiple theses in a master’s degree. I share some experiences of how I evolved as a research supervisor in more than 5 years and insights for more effective supervision of a new researcher.

Volcanology education is important for the development of geoscientists and scientifically literate citizens. We surveyed 55 volcanology instructors to determine their learning and teaching practices, perceptions of academic development, and educational support needs. Instructors reported using a wide range of practices and tools, but lectures, field experiences, maps, rock samples, academic literature, and inherited teaching materials are the most common. Instructors valued educational support from others (e.g., talking with colleagues and students, consulting with learning and teaching specialists) over conducting their own investigations. However, they did not report engaging in as many of these activities as they valued. Instructors requested more support in resource sharing and collation, conference workshops, and co-creation of resources and educational research. We suggest that instructors and academic development staff work together to share and build knowledge in the learning and teaching of volcanology in higher education, and to improve student learning outcomes.

The ENLIGHT “Research and Innovation agenda with and for Society” (RISE) project aims at establishing foundations and initiating implementation of a common research and innovation (R&I) agenda within theENLIGHT European University Alliance. Work package 4 has two specific projects. 4.1 To plan a series of events to support networking/leadership skills for early career researchers (ECRs) and 4.2 is the Researcher Assessment working group. The first event, for 4.1 work package, was held on Tuesday 25th October 2022 between 12:00-14:00 CET, entitled ‘Networking Skills for Early Career Researchers’ and was held online. Professor Jane Walsh, University of Galway, and Dr. Janka Kottulová, Comenius University Bratislava, were the guest presenters.

This OSF project is meant to serve as a long-term storage repository for presentations and workshop materials for the Aquatic Ecosystem Modeling-Junior (AEMON-J) and Virtual Summit: Incorporating Data Science and Open Science (DSOS) communities. Contributors in this repository include past presenters and workshop organizers. Contributors are only responsible for those individual presentations that are labeled with their surname.

Here you will find our first and second level of screening criteria, cheat sheets, pilots, and decisions.

A scoping review assessing the level of preparedness of early career researchers conducting systematic and scoping reviews

Questionnaire items and LimeSurvey implementation to assess the situation of doctoral researchers in academic institutions.

The higher education landscape has been amidst change over recent years. At the time of writing this paper, the pandemic outbreak has had a substantial impact on the higher education sector. This was our last year as early career researchers, but the prospect of promotion was replaced with managing unpredicted short-term job insecurity. In writing this article, we engage with collaborative diffractive autobiographical writing, re-membering, re-connecting and re-experiencing our autobiographical accounts, written at the beginning of our transition into academia. Through diffractive analysis, we shifted from positivistic approaches that assume a rigid separation between observer and the observed, to engage in an ongoing (re)pattering and (re)(con)figuring of our identities during this transition. In an intentional disruption of binary, we engage in writing as an event of interaction with texts, allowing ourselves to be affected by and experience these propositions in their mutual entanglements.

Funder: Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, Funder: Rhodes Trust, Funder: Gates Cambridge Trust; Id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005370

This paper provides a snapshot of Indigenous Early Career Researchers in Australia derived from demographic information collected in the first stage of the ‘Developing Indigenous Early Career Researchers’ project. Analysis of the data to date has evidenced much diversity across this cohort. However, one commonality across all Indigenous Early Career Researchers was a commitment to the value and validity of Indigenous Ways of Knowing in the higher education sector. With the use of Tribal Critical Race Theory this paper explores the ways in which Indigenous Early Career Researchers disrupt Western-based academies and schools of thought and proposes that Indigenous Early Carer Researchers grow ‘pearls’ of experience and knowledge within the higher education sector that are essential to the development of a richer academy and stronger Indigenous communities.

O artigo problematiza o desenvolvimento da carreira de pesquisadores na área da pesquisa qualitativa em saúde. Apoiando-se em duas perspectivas teóricas que discutem o campo da pesquisa qualitativa, põe em perspectiva elementos das vivências de pesquisadores iniciantes a partir de nossa tradição cultural de desenvolvimento na pós-graduação. Partindo das questões que emergem dessas discussões, traz um levantamento bibliográfico acerca da pesquisa qualitativa em saúde como forma de compreender ao que tem acesso o pesquisador iniciante e como, no conjunto, essas referências caracterizam formas de produção científica no campo da saúde. Os elementos levantados apontam que existem questões ligadas à pesquisa qualitativa em saúde que subsidiam modelos de ensino em pesquisa tão diversos quanto diversas são as formas de compreender as questões epistemológicas, teóricas e metodológicas. Nesse sentido, o percurso de pesquisadores iniciantes está muito mais ligado à expertise de seus orientadores do que propriamente a uma cultura acadêmica de formação em pesquisa qualitativa na área da saúde. This article describes the cores of social significance identified in the speeches of primary healthcare professionals regarding the quality of the actions performed. This is a case study carried out in two services organized according to different models: a “traditional” unit, with community agents, and one for family healthcare. The interviews and observations are analyzed based on the framework proposed by Vigotsky, dialogically with the literature on the working processes in health care. The results point as the main cores of quality in basic care: reception as interaction between professional and user of the Brazilian National Health System (SUS); diversity of multi-professional and intersectoral offers; community agents as a link between healthcare team and community; and teamwork and democratic management. Even though these aspects are socially understood as cores for quality in primary health care among professionals, there are tensions and contradictions between the legitimized and the instituted as practices.

There is a growing expectation that doctoral candidates and early career academics publish research outputs such as journal articles and conference papers, and that they share their findings with key stakeholders beyond academia. However, it is not known if these expectations are being coupled with support from mentors and peers within institutions. Through interviews with recent PhD graduates working as early career researchers in Australia and Japan, this paper investigates if mentor and peer support for producing both academic and translational outputs was forthcoming during their doctoral candidature and beyond. It also investigates kinds of supports provided in doctoral candidature and early career. Thirty early career researchers in Australia and Japan took part in this qualitative study involving in-depth semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of respondents. Researchers made translation support available for Japanese respondents so that those with limited English could take part. Findings suggest that mentor and peer support were not universal, and some respondents did not have a mentor or significant peer influence supporting their production of academic or translational research outputs. Support for sharing research with audiences beyond academia could be limited, with production of outputs for academic audiences consistently a greater focus of support. There were no mentoring supports for translational outputs that had salience across Australia and Japan within the sample. While limited attention has been given to the role that peer influence may play in supporting research output production of early career researchers the more even power relationship between peers as opposed to the peer-/mentor dyad can allow unique supports to flourish. Where institutions expect growing and diverse research output production by doctoral candidates and early career researchers, they should also ensure that support is provided through facilitating mentoring and peer relationships., Doctoral candidate; Early career researcher; Knowledge mobilization; Academic publishing; Scholarly publishing; Research translation; Mentoring; Peer influence

A critical point that is missing is the academic promotion of open research and open researcher, as a way to promote a more rigorous and sound research process and tackle the reproducibility crisis. What should the incentives be? How to make sure that the next generation of academics genuinely value openness and transparency as a foundation of rigorous research?

BackgroundOver the past 25 years, there has been growing recognition of the importance of studying the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of genetic and genomic research. A large investment into ELSI research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Human Genomic Project budget in 1990 stimulated the growth of this emerging field; ELSI research has continued to develop and is starting to emerge as a field in its own right. The evolving subject matter of ELSI research continues to raise new research questions as well as prompt re-evaluation of earlier work and a growing number of scholars working in this area now identify themselves as ELSI scholars rather than with a particular discipline. Main textDue to the international and interdisciplinary nature of ELSI research, scholars can often find themselves isolated from disciplinary or regionally situated support structures. We conducted a workshop with Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in Oxford, UK, and this paper discusses some of the particular challenges that were highlighted. While ELSI ECRs may face many of the universal challenges faced by ECRs, we argue that a number of challenges are either unique or exacerbated in the case of ELSI ECRs and discuss some of the reasons as to why this may be the case. We identify some of the most pressing issues for ELSI ECRs as: interdisciplinary angst and expertise, isolation from traditional support structures, limited resources and funding opportunities, and uncertainty regarding how research contributions will be measured. We discuss the potential opportunity to use web 2.0 technologies to transform academic support structures and address some of the challenges faced by ELSI ECRs, by helping to facilitate mentoring and support, access to resources and new accreditation metrics. ConclusionAs our field develops it is crucial for the ELSI community to continue looking forward to identify how emerging digital solutions can be used to facilitate the international and interdisciplinary research we perform, and to offer support for those embarking on, progressing through, and transitioning into an ELSI research career.

By sharing their experiences, early-career scientists can help to make the case for increased government funding for researchers.