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In 1933 Margaret Lasker, a biochemist who worked at the labs of Montefiore Hospital in New York, developed an accurate method for the differentiation between pentosuria and diabetes. Research into pentosuria, and mostly its genetic aspects, became Lasker’s lifelong passion. Since research was not part of her job description, she conducted the chief part of her study in her home kitchen. Lasker’s extensive and personal correspondence with her patients and their families may be the secret key for her success in maintaining a prolonged research career against all odds. Laker’s last article was published in 1955 in Human Biology, presenting data on 72 cases of pentosuria, which occurs almost exclusively in Ashkenazi Jews. More than half a century later, and long after Lasker was gone, her well kept data and family records allowed the discovery of two mutations in the DCXR gene, by Mary-Claire King and her team.

espanolEste ensayo repasa la fecunda trayectoria investigadora del profesor Jocelyn N. Hillgarth (1929-2020), a partir de cuatro grandes ambitos: 1) la Hispania visigotica y la difusion del cristianismo altomedieval; 2) la politica, la Iglesia y la cultura en la Corona de Aragon; 3) Ramon Llull y el lulismo; y 4) la historia cultural y eclesiastica del Reino de Mallorca. EnglishThis essay reviews the fruitful research career of Professor Jocelyn N. Hillgarth (1929-2020), from four main areas: 1) Visigothic Hispania and the spread of early medieval Christianity; 2) Politics, Church and Culture in the Crown of Aragon; 3) Ramon Llull and Lullism; and 4) the cultural and ecclesiastical History of the Kingdom of Mallorca.

Considerable work assesses research productivity in political science. Yet, the latter work has not explicated how research careers can differ across time and individuals and neither has it considered such careers in teaching institutions. This article presents an empirically validated typology for research career paths for political scientists who began their career in a teaching institution. The typology demonstrates that many scholars follow paths different from the most conventional expectations, and research “success” by measures of publications and citations is associated with only some of those paths. Thus, existing research on aggregate publications and citations likely addresses only a subset of the career paths described here. Understanding research activities in our profession requires accounting for various career paths, their motivations, and their place in our research community.

Health science researchers need training and support to effectively pursue independence in their research careers. Little data exist regarding the specific resources that faculty researchers have found or would find useful. In this study, we aimed to better understand the needs of health science researchers to develop recommendations for effective career development programming. The authors conducted a multi-method evaluation of early-career researcher faculty needs beginning by using post-session satisfaction surveys to assess the value of a long-standing “K-Club” seminar, which educates and supports those pursuing NIH Career Development (K) awards or similar. The authors then collected in-depth views on career development needs through a series of focus groups conducted with health science researchers at three career stages: early career, award-seeking junior faculty; mid-career faculty who have obtained some extramural funding; senior faculty who serve as mentors for early/mid-career faculty. Participants who attended the existing K-Club strongly endorse the program in supporting their career goals. Focus group participants described specific areas for program expansion that would add value across career stages: more flexible training options, conducted in smaller group settings with immediate feedback provided; more formalized training and resources for senior research mentors; in-depth guidance on individualized grantsmanship. The authors propose program development guidelines for helping researchers achieve research independence and success. Findings indicate that a broad-reaching K-Club style educational seminar can serve as a valuable foundation supporting professional development. The addition of tailored programs delivered across diverse platforms are predicted to heighten career development success.

The IgNITE Medical Case Competition is an annual research case competition organized by students at the University of Ottawa. Our mission is to provide high school and university students the opportunity to gain valuable research experience while networking with industry professionals. Each year students, in teams of 1-4, are paired with an experienced mentor to develop and present a novel research proposal within the specified theme of the competition. During the competition, students are taught the fundamental principles underlying three lab techniques which they can then use in their proposal or their future research career. This year’s theme was Regenerative Medicine and competitors learned about Immunofluorescence, Western Blot, and CRISPR-Cas9. In 2020-2021 the IgNITE community grew internationally with 570 high school and university students across the world participating in the competition. In this booklet we present the Top 40 teams and invite you to visit our website (www.ignitecompetition.org) to watch their pitch proposal videos. We hope you enjoy reading through some of this year’s top proposals and invite you to join our growing community.

Considerable research assesses research success in political science. Yet this work has not considered widespread findings that scholars can follow various career research paths that complicate how we envision scholarly success. Further, we have no systematic information on these career paths in any scientific discipline. I present an empirically validated research career-path typology for political scientists who began their career in a research institution. The typology demonstrates that many scholars follow paths different from the most conventional expectations, and research success by measures of publications and citations is associated with only some of these paths. Thus, existing research on aggregate publications and citations likely addresses only a subset of the career paths revealed in this article. Understanding research activities in our profession requires consideration of the various career paths, their motivation, and their place in our research community.

El profesor Rodríguez Gutiérrez de Ceballos es una figura clave en el ámbito de la Historia del Arte Barroco. De sólida formación e impecable trayectoria docente e investigadora, comenzó a publicar en los años sesenta. Las respuestas a las preguntas formuladas en esta entrevista permiten aproximarse a una etapa histórica de importantes cambios en la disciplina, con figuras eminentes que sentaron nuevas bases para el estudio de la Historia del Arte Español. El profesor Rodríguez Gutiérrez de Ceballos habla de su familia, de su infancia en Salamanca, de sus estudios universitarios, de sus maestros, de sus compañeros y de su vínculo con conocidos hispanistas. Comenta sus aportaciones más destacadas y su reciente nombramiento como doctor honoris causa por la Universidad de Murcia. Concluye con un mensaje de ánimo para los que comienzan. Professor Rodríguez Gutiérrez de Ceballos is a key figure in the field of Baroque Art History. With a solid background and an impeccable teaching and research career, he began publishing in the 1960s. His answers to the questions raised in this interview provide an insight into a historic moment of important changes in the discipline and eminent figures who laid new foundations for the study of the History of Spanish Art. Professor Rodríguez Gutiérrez de Ceballos talks about his family, his childhood in Salamanca, his university studies, his teachers and colleagues and their links to renowned Hispanists. He comments on his best known contributions and his recent appointment as doctor honoris causa by the University of Murcia. It concludes with a message of encouragement for those starting in the profession.

Engaging in a creative pursuit can stimulate creativity and foster boldness and tenacity in the lab and beyond. Engaging in a creative pursuit can stimulate creativity and foster boldness and tenacity in the lab and beyond.

© 2019, © 2019 Australia and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies. This paper presents the key messages from a keynote address I delivered to the 2017 Australia and New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies conference held in Hobart Tasmania, December 2017. In this paper, I reflect on the heuristic learnings from the role of research in addressing critical social issues in leisure and ‘cultural life’. I do so by examining my very deliberate choice to undertake industry-linked research addressing issues involving human rights, social inclusion and giving voice to marginalized groups. As an insider to these voices, I know that research itself does little to address social inequality unless there is a deliberate action by academics to translate research into outcomes through political engagement, challenging organizational practice and communicating the results publicly beyond the paywall of refereed journals. Yet, this type of academic research advocate does not fit easily within neoliberal performance-based metrics that are narrowly defined within disciplinary boundaries of contemporary higher education. As I will explain there are other rich rewards in stepping outside of these boundaries while still doing trustworthy, rigorous, theoretical investigations with high-quality traditional academic outputs. The paper presents a case study of research examining the participation and non-participation of people with disability in sport and active recreation.

Public Significance Statement The human capacity for language enables people to routinely produce and comprehend highly contextualized meaning, even when that meaning differs from or is completely opposite to the component words comprising an utterance or sequence of text (e.g., irony, metaphorical or idiomatic language, humor, and other forms of nonliteral language). In a career spanning more than 45 years, Professor Albert Katz of Western University has illuminated through his research the extraordinary ways that people accomplish this neurocognitive feat, which we all take for granted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

When talking about his career as a developmental and evolutionary biologist, Stanford University’s David M. Kingsley likes to say that “genetics works.” He means that genetics can solve biological problems that have long been mysterious. He has repeatedly put that theory to the test throughout his research career, initially using genetics to study a cellular process called receptor-mediated endocytosis. Kingsley subsequently discovered several genes controlling bone formation and repair in vertebrates and harnessed genetic tools to identify genes that underlie major evolutionary differences in natural species. In his joint Inaugural Article with long-time collaborator Dolph Schluter, Kingsley pinpoints a genetic region that appears to affect overall species fitness in stickleback fish (1). Kingsley is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. David M. Kingsley. Image credit: Cynthea Kingsley (photographer). Kingsley grew up in Des Moines, Iowa with his parents and siblings. When Kingsley was 4 years old, a rare form of cancer killed his father at age 34. “I started thinking about wanting to use whatever time that I had in my own life to study problems bigger than myself and come up with answers that might last longer than myself,” Kingsley says. “The feeling of progress that I could see from asking and answering scientific questions seemed like an island of stability in an otherwise uncertain world.” As a child, the questions he loved most involved dinosaurs and skeletons, a passion encouraged by his mother with museum trips to Chicago and Washington, DC. An advanced biology teacher in high school, Jack Koch, challenged and excited Kingsley’s interest in biology. He chose to attend Yale University as an undergraduate because the brochure they sent him highlighted its new Kline Biology Tower. For graduate school, Kingsley moved to Harvard University, intent …

In academia, the teacher–student relationship relies on research collaboration, and this topic is considered important in the field of higher education. In university-offered programs, research collaboration hinges on what teachers and students expect from each other. Teachers expect better learning outcomes from students, while students expect expertise, support, and balance between creativity and criticism during their study period. This literature review-based research study explores teacher–student research collaboration where teachers and students interact with each other. Research articles written in the last five years were accessed from university databases for this study. This research work highlights and provides guidelines to competent authorities of higher educational institutions and research experts on the basic elements of research collaboration among teachers and students. Such guidelines promote better learning outcomes, such as academic and research achievements. The findings of this study mention teacher–student elements that help students in gaining academic achievements and teachers in publishing more work for a successful academic research career. This study sheds light on student expectations of teacher–student research collaboration. They expect expertise, support, creativity, and criticism from the teacher in academic research collaboration.

During his long and distinguished career, Subra Suresh has made crucial contributions to the field of engineering. While finishing up high school in India in the 1970s, however, Suresh was not even sure of going to college, let alone becoming an engineer. Nonetheless, Suresh decided to take a shot at the entrance examination for the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology. “A month before my exam, I bought a book to prepare and worked through some practice questions and just thought, go try it,” Suresh says. “To my surprise, I got in.” His degree in mechanical engineering from Indian Institutes of Technology Madras would turn out to be the starting point of a wide-ranging research career. Subra Suresh. Image credit: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Suresh’s research interests would eventually span engineering, basic science, and medicine. His multidisciplinary work led to elected memberships in all three US National Academies: The National Academy of Engineering in 2002, the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and the National Academy of Medicine in 2013. Suresh has held several prestigious positions, from being dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s School of Engineering and president of Carnegie Mellon University to leading the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States. Now President of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Suresh continues to push forward in research with his recent work on deforming nanoscale diamond. In his Inaugural Article (1), Suresh and his colleagues show computationally that it is possible to make nanoscale diamond behave like a metal with respect to select properties, which would open up a wide array of applications in microelectronics, optoelectronics, and solar energy. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree at Indian Institutes of Technology Madras, a scholarship offer led Suresh to attend Iowa State University for a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering. When he left for …

Author(s): Murphy, Linda S.; Kraus, Chadd K.; Lotfipour, Shahram; Gottlieb, Michael; Langabeer II, James R.; Langdorf, Mark I. | Abstract: There are approximately 78 indexed journals in the specialty of emergency medicine (EM), making it challenging to determine which is the best option for junior faculty. This paper is the final component of a three-part series focused on guiding junior faculty to enhance their scholarly productivity. As an EM junior faculty’s research career advances, the bibliometric tools and resources detailed in this paper should be considered when developing a publication submission strategy. The tenure and promotion decision process in many universities relies at least in part on these types of bibliometrics. This paper provides an understanding of new, alternative metrics that can be used to promote scientific progress in a transparent and timely manner.

With our fast-pacing life, numerous learning and scientific sources and information are available and required for medical students to boost their skills since their early life to accommodate with the great knowledge they take. Medical students should re-elaborate what they studied and exploit knowledge clinically. A good doctor is a good observer, so eyes should be kept on while mentor managing patients in order to add more to our medical notions. A seed to become a great future doctor starts by searching for a specialty that fits your personality, to practice it as a volunteer, to gain its skills earlier. So when you graduate, you have more time to gain other learning experience. As long as you practice it, the more chance to become one of its experts. Managing your patient as a relative, not as a bag of money, is very important to be applied. Inability to diagnose a patient is not a shame, so never let a patient go home without referring him to another doctor who has more experience than you. Having a background in other medical specialties will help you recognize common signs of other related medical conditions that could lead you to refer him to right specialty doctor. Joining a research lab will keep you updated with new inventions, drugs, algorithms, and guidelines, which will help you become more acknowledged with medical problems that you were unaware of. Time management is the key to success as a researcher without affecting your daily life activities and study requirements.

Research is the creative and systematic conversion of ideas into knowledge and the application of this knowledge in different life fields. The more you get involved in research, the more experiences and skills you can gain. The continuous decreasing number of medical students interested in research can affect the public health in future. Our aim is to encourage medical students to involve more in the research career and to highlight the importance and skills needed for being a successful researcher. Discipline, passion to gain the knowledge, the accuracy of data checking, team work and strict rules are the most important characteristics of a research team. A researcher should be passionate, hard-working, and patient. Teamwork is the golden key to doing research; you should be responsible for your team and develop their research skills along the study period. A researcher should be a self-learner to increase his skills to get an advanced level. From the most important skill that a researcher should gain it by time is the leadership. Being motivated along the study period is an obstacle that leaders always meet, so you should have solutions for it. Fairness is an important manner a leader should acquire. Contribution in a research lab from your youth to build your CV, personality and gain great publications by time.

Sir Gregory Winter, Research Leader Emeritus at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK is best known for his pioneering work on humanised and human therapeutic antibodies. Greg's research career has been entirely based in Cambridge. After studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, he undertook his PhD, focused on determining the amino acid sequence of bacterial tryptophanyl tRNA synthetase, at the LMB, where he remained for postdoctoral research and the ensuing establishment of his own research group. His long-standing interest in protein and nucleic acid sequencing led to the development of techniques to 'humanise' mouse monoclonal antibodies and to make human antibodies directly, resulting in promising antibody-based therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. Greg has founded three biotech companies, including Cambridge Antibody Technology and Bicycle Therapeutics. He has also received numerous awards and honours in recognition of his revolutionary work in the antibody engineering field, most notably the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in October 2018. One year on, he discusses the impact of this award on his life and future career outlook in an interview with The FEBS Journal.

Research Data Management (RDM) presents an unusual challenge for service providers in Higher Education. There is increased awareness of the need for training in this area but the nature of discipline-specific practices involved make it difficult to provide training across a multi-disciplinary organisation. Whilst most UK universities now have a research data team of some description, they are often small and rarely have the resources necessary to provide targeted training to the different disciplines and research career stages that they are increasingly expected to support.This practice paper describes the approach taken at the University of Cambridge to address this problem by creating a community of Data Champions. This collaborative initiative, working with researchers to provide training and advocacy for good RDM practice, allows for more discipline-specific training to be given, researchers to be credited for their expertise and an opportunity for those interested in RDM to exchange knowledge with others. The ‘community of practice’ model has been used in many sectors, including Higher Education, to facilitate collaboration across organisational units and this initiative will adopt some of the same principles to improve communication across a decentralised institution. The Data Champions initiative at Cambridge was launched in September 2016 and this paper reports on the early months, plans for building the community in the future and the possible risks associated with this approach to providing RDM services.

Nursing students in baccalaureate programs report that research is not visible in practice, and faculty conducting research report rarely interacting with students in undergraduate nursing programs. We examined student and faculty perceptions of a research internship embedded in an existing evidence-based practice course. Students (n = 15) and faculty (n = 5) viewed the internship as a positive experience that provided meaningful hands-on skills while generating interest in a potential research career. The internship also provided faculty the opportunity to identify potential doctoral students.

In the last 150 years, scientific research has produced extraordinary discoveries in Medicine and there is no doubt that research will continue contributing substantially in the future but there is no the same conviction regarding how to provision such capacities in medical graduates. In Chile, the Faculties of Medicine created several doctorate programs in Medical Sciences (Ph.D.) to strengthen medical research. However, the low number of physicians who apply to these programs is a caveat. These programs provide the advanced third-cycle competencies expected by students aspiring for an excellence research certification and their incorporation into academia. Universities stand out in their capacity to adapt themselves to educational needs, developing programs designed to fill specific gaps. Ph.D. programs intercalated to the medical career show that this is the correct approach. The development of specific doctorate programs for the small number of physicians interested in research and for medical students with a strong interest in research could be an innovative solution to motivate and encourage them to develop a career in clinical investigation. Using this approach, Medical Schools and Doctorate in Medical Sciences programs would jointly stimulate the training of medical scientists.

David Colin Sherrington began life as a Liverpool docker's son and became an internationally recognized authority on reactive polymers and using polymer-supported reagents in novel applications. His research career began at University of Liverpool with his PhD work on the mechanisms of cationic polymerization. From 1972 until retirement in 2010, Strathclyde University was his chief research base. In the very early years he continued with mechanistic and kinetic studies of cationic polymerization, but soon moved to the field of polymer-supported reactions and reagents, to which he devoted the rest of his research career. An important contribution to the direction of his scientific activity was the secondment years he spent at Unilever, where he became involved in polymeric high internal phase emulsions (polyHIPEs). In the following years, he devoted much effort to accurate characterization of these and other porous polymer supports, frequently involving him in learning new techniques (e.g. neutron scattering). An important feature was the use of polymer supports to catalyse oxidation reactions, especially olefin epoxidation. He gained valuable insight into many aspects of his research from the many visiting professorships over his career. He was involved on the editorial board of Reactive Polymers continuously from 1982 until 2010 and he was awarded many honours. His free time was mainly devoted to fishing, particularly for salmon, an activity he shared with his wife and a group of friends for many years. His warmth, intellect and clear interest in the careers of his research students were key components in creating the polymer ‘family’ to which they belonged. His years of retirement were saddened by multiple system atrophy, a devastating illness throughout which he was cared for by Val, his wife.

Our great friend and colleague, Ben Pattison, died on March 19th 2020 at the age of 40, after a year-long battle against myeloma and amyloidosis.Ben’s research career started with the Building and ...

Creativity is a scientific skill necessary to develop a successful research career. We expose the importance of a growth mindset, divergent, lateral, and associative thinking, serendipity, and being part of a nonhierarchical and diverse research team to improve both indi- vidual and collective creativity., Unidad de Excelencia Modeling Nature. Proyecto SOMM17/6109/UGR Consejería de Economía, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad, and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

In this chapter Prof. Mary Rogan speaks about her experience discovering criminology as a Law student and how it sowed the seeds for her later research interests. She speaks about combining elements of legal philosophy with criminological theory and how her research interests developed to focus on lived experience and penal policy. Prof. Rogan goes on to chart her journey from student to practitioner to Professor and explains how her sense of criminology as a rendezvous discipline was central to how her research career progressed. She talks about the need to share information, to give back, to inform policy and to understand how policy is experienced on the ground. Finally, Prof. Rogan speaks about her work informing, reviewing and creating policy based on her own and others’ research and the importance of this role as an academic and the potential for positive change that can come from such involvement.

In this reflection on my career researching creativity, I describe key turning points in my intellectual development, in the direction of my empirical and theoretical work, and in my growing understanding—along with the field’s understanding—of the complexities of creativity. I acknowledge the crucial roles played by many mentors, collaborators, colleagues, students, and family members, as well as the crucial roles played by my critics and “intellectual irritants” over the years. I highlight the importance of confident humility for researchers in any field, and express gratitude for the people and institutions that enabled me to engage in my labor of love all these years.

Few things are more important to a research career than discovery. A great idea is important and new. It might lead to the founding of a new field, or a new approach to an existing one, and sprout hundreds of additional studies. Where do these ideas come from? The answer to this question lies in the general field of creativity research. Here I discuss how creativity might be enhanced in ten steps. They involve being motivated to be creative, to learn creativity techniques, to interact with others outside your core group, to foster eureka moments, to recognize good new ideas when you see them, to work with others, to encourage creativity in others, to give feedback in a kind way, to defer ownership of ideas, and to learn science improvisation. The references in these sections give a peek into the growing field of creativity studies. Greater attention to and understanding of the sources of creative insight will help lead us to that magic idea that is new and important.

This autobiographical article describes the research career of Lynn M. Riddiford from its early beginnings in a summer program for high school students at Jackson Laboratory to the present “retirement” at the Friday Harbor Laboratories. The emphasis is on her forays into many areas of insect endocrinology, supported by her graduate students and postdoctoral associates. The main theme is the hormonal regulation of metamorphosis, especially the roles of juvenile hormone (JH). The article describes the work of her laboratory first in the elucidation of the endocrinology of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, and later in the molecular aspects of the regulation of cuticular and pigment proteins and of the ecdysone-induced transcription factor cascade during molting and metamorphosis. Later studies utilized Drosophila melanogaster to answer further questions about the actions of JH.

Physician-scientists represent a critical component of the biomedical and health research workforce. However, the proportion of physicians who spend a significant amount of effort on scientific research has declined over the past 40 years. This trend has been particularly noticeable in pediatrics despite recent scientific work revealing that early life influences, exposures, and health status play a significant role in lifelong health and disease. To address this problem, the Duke University Department of Pediatrics developed the Duke Pediatric Research Scholars Program for Physician-Scientist Development (DPRS). The DPRS is focused on research training during pediatric residency and fellowship. We aim to provide sufficient research exposure and support to help scholars develop a research niche and scholarly products as well as identify the career pathways that will enable them to achieve their research goals. Herein, we describe the DPRS’s organizational structure, core components, recruitment strategies, and initial results, and we discuss implementation challenges and solutions. Additionally, we detail the program’s integration with the department’s residency and fellowship training programs (with particular reference to the challenges of integrating research into small- to medium-sized residency programs) and describe the development and integration of related initiatives across Duke University School of Medicine. The program served as the basis for 2 successful National Institutes of Health Stimulating Access to Research in Residency (R38) applications, and we hope it will serve as a model to integrate formalized research training for residents and fellows who wish to pursue research careers in academic medicine.

A research career investigating epidemiological and evolutionary patterns in both natural and crop host–pathogen systems emphasizes the need for flexibility in thinking and a willingness to adopt ideas from a wide diversity of subdisciplines. Here, I reflect on the pivotal issues, research areas, and interactions, including the role of science management, that shaped my career in the hope of demonstrating that career paths and collaborations in science can be as diverse and unpredictable as the natural world in which we study our organisms of choice.

Donald W. Slocum, 87, died April 13 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. “Dr. Donald Slocum began his teaching and research career in 1965 at Southern Illinois University, followed by stops at Gulf Corporat...

Among several major frontier science and technology projects soon to be initiated by the Chinese government, China Brain Project (on ‘Brain Science and Brain-like Intelligence Technology’ (CBP)) has attracted much attention. Mu-ming Poo, Director of the Institute of Neuroscience (ION) and Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is currently also the Executive Associate Editor of NSR. He has played a key role in the strategic discussion and planning for CBP. In a recent interview with NSR, Poo discussed his view on the goals and contents of CBP, as well as recent developments and future prospects of neuroscience in general. Throughout his research career that spanned over four decades, Poo has made seminal contributions to several areas in neuroscience. He reminisced during the interview on his own career path, as well as his experience and thoughts on building the research infrastructure for Chinese neuroscience.

Circular migration was one of several enduring themes in Graeme Hugo’s highly productive research career. Although his specialist field was Asian population movement, during the 2000s he became increasingly interested in labour migration in the Pacific Islands. This paper reviews the development of two managed circular migration schemes targeting Pacific labour that emerged following the UN High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development in 2006. New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme and Australia’s Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) have attracted international attention as the kind of ‘best practice’ temporary labour migration schemes that Hugo had in mind when he emphasised the positive contributions that circular forms of mobility could make to development in both source and destination countries. The two schemes have transformed mobility between the participating countries and have played a major role in the negotiations over a free-trade agreement between Pacific ...

espanolAlvaro d'Ors, eximio romanista, ha desarrollado durante su prolifica tarea investigadora temas de otras ciencias a partir de elementos propios del Derecho Romano. En este articulo se pone de relieve su contribucion en el area de la filosofia juridico-politica, que nuestro autor no se ha expuesto de modo ordenado y didactico, a diferencia de su exquisita sistematicidad con que expone su doctrina romanista. Dado que sus escritos, han aparecido en muy diversas sedes y su exposicion es ordinariamente compleja, el articulo presenta los principales puntos de su contenido, a modo de sistematizacion del pensamiento politico orsiano, asi como una serie de claves metodologicas que facilitan su profunda comprension. El fin de este esfuerzo es que el rico arsenal de su pensamiento politico pueda nutrir con mayor amplitud la investigacion filosofico-politica sobre la clara base orsiana del respeto y la sujecion humilde a la realidad del hombre, su apertura a la trascendencia y, en relacion con ambas, su mision en el mundo. EnglishThroughout his prolific research career the outstanding Romanist Alvaro d’Ors,, has developed topics of other areas of knowledge based on the Roman Law. In this article, his contribution to juridicial-political philosophy, which he has not revealed in an ordered and didactic manner in contrast to his exquisite systematized presentation of his romanist teachings, is underscored. Given that his writings have appeared in various kinds of publications and his exposition is normally complex, this article presents an explanation of his main contributions, by organizing d’Ors political thought, as well a a serie of methodological keys, which facilitate deeper comprehension. The result of this task is the greater efficacy with which the rich arsenal of his political thought can foster political philosophy research on the clearly d’Orsian base of respect and humble subjection to the reality of man, man’s openness to transcendence and, in relation to both, man’s mission in the world.

Background: Nursing research is fundamental to driving evidence-based practice and achieving safe outcomes for patients. Underpinning the discussion in this paper are nurse researchers who thought strategically during their undergraduate and postgraduate studies to build a body of credible research influencing patient outcomes and, in so doing, establish their careers. Aim: To provide an overview of some of the career essentials that support a transition in role for the beginner or emerging researcher, otherwise known as the early career researcher. Discussion: Early career researchers need to acquire research competencies, to get involved in research teams, and to understand the research landscape and the various associated subtleties/vagaries and career trajectories. This is fundamental for establishing their credibility as researchers, and enabling them to undertake research that will influence policy and practice. Conclusion: Establishing a research career is challenging, and takes time, effort, patience, perseverance and commitment. For beginner researchers, collegial support and mentoring are essential to support a viable, professional, sustainable, enquiring profession, and a satisfying career. Implications for practice Building individual capabilities and collaborative research teams together is fundamental to research success in adapting to new roles and workplaces.

This special issue comprises a series of papers written by former PhD students, as well as friends and colleagues, to celebrate the career of Alayne Street-Perrott, who is currently Professor of Physical Geography at Swansea University. Alayne's research career has been exceptional, marked by novel, cutting-edge research of the very highest quality in several disciplines, which addresses ‘big’ questions in Quaternary Science. She has promoted the importance of tropical environments through international cooperation and leadership, and developed fundamental concepts. She has made an immense contribution to our understanding of global change in the Quaternary, raising the discipline to new levels of scientific rigour.

Larry Royster was a dedicated scientist and engineer whose recognized contributions in the area of noise control and hearing conservation were by no means his only interests. After retiring, Larry's amazing mind was free to follow his fancy into a wide variety of topics. He measured countless phenomena and graphed the results, read nonfiction prodigiously and rated what he read, and wrote summaries for the public about what he was learning. He took up golf and amateur radio with zeal. Liberated from responsibilities that he had always taken quite seriously, he teased his friends and laughed with them. He also reflected on qualities of character that drove him throughout his teaching and research career. In this presentation I will share sides of Larry that were not obvious to many.

Claude DetrazClaude Detraz was born 20 March 1938 in Albi (Tarn), France. An alumnus of the Ecole Normale Superieure, he started his research career at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifi...

Research demonstrates consistently how the route to professor is gendered. Structural inequalities within academic systems can make it hard for women to achieve the status of Chair. It has been argued, for example, that women academics may be judged on their ‘maternal bodies’ (or their potential for reproduction) rather than on performance. Relatedly, women’s commitment to the academy might be questioned due to unfair and unsubstantiated institutional assumptions that female scholars may at some point in their career prioritize parenting over employment (irrespective of whether they are in practice mothers). It has been shown, additionally, that women are less likely than men to be invited into career-advancing networks. Yet should women seek to pursue their own career advancement, they may be treated as ‘pushy’. Nevertheless, despite such structural barriers to career progression, some do reach professorial level. In this chapter, I share advice received from good colleagues, as well as some personal learning which helped move forward my research career. Acknowledging how some of these opportunities were serendipitous rather than strategic, I nevertheless embed such experiences within existing research on women in management, offering some personal thoughts on what might prove helpful, including the benefits of not waiting to be asked.

We focus on the role that domestic and international mobility play in achieving a business academic’s career outcomes. We seek to advance existing research by taking a morenuanced approach to the study of mobility. Using a sample of 376 tenured faculty members from 20 highly research-visible European business schools in 10 countries, we explore different patterns of mobility and highlight their link to research-career capital and the speed of academic promotion. Our findings show that mobility has a positive impact on research-career capital, but multiple moves delay academic promotion. In making decisions about international mobility, it is important to know that moving internationally for one’s first post-PhD job undermines research productivity. However, moving internationally between year 2 and year 7 post-PhD is better than moving later on. The ability to move between countries is deeply rooted in gender, with female faculty less likely to access international mobility. Female academics also take longer to be promoted to a tenured rank and to full professorship. Our findings have implications for academic researchers who consider domestic and international mobility, and for PhD supervisors whose duty it is to prepare their students for successful careers in academia.

Universities have been called upon to integrate research experiences into early, introductory courses to better prepare our STEM workforce. This call is primarily based on short-term studies that link research experiences with knowledge and perception gains. However, the influence of pre-existing student characteristics has not been fully disentangled from the research experience, and the long-term stability of these gains is uncertain. To address these issues, we integrated a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) into randomly assigned sections of a required freshman-level biology laboratory course. We previously reported that this CURE resulted in immediate targeted knowledge and perception gains. Here, we evaluate the stability of these gains as students progressed through a biology degree program. At sophomore year, the impact of the CURE on student perception was still apparent. When compared to controls, students who participated in the CURE perceived a greater understanding of what researchers do and an increased interest in pursuing a research career. However, by senior year, these positive perceptions had fallen to levels shared by control groups. Targeted knowledge gains persisted throughout this study. Our results support CURE logic models predicting that multiple CUREs will be required to sustain perception gains.

In this chapter, the authors outline key steps and considerations to take into account when entering into the realm of quantitative research. The primary question guiding this chapter is the following: “How does one conduct quality quantitative research as a novice researcher?” Several equally important questions are subsumed within this general question, such as “What are the first steps to conducting quantitative research?” and “What are the best statistical methods to use?” The authors address each of these questions based on their experience with quantitative research in academia. The authors include senior and junior professors as well as senior doctoral students, each of whom began their research career with as many questions and concerns as any novice beginning their research journey is likely to have. That said, the authors aim to help novice researchers explore how quantitative research in mathematics education requires several sequential and coordinated steps and to outline tips and precautions to take as well.

In this chapter we will approach three broad topics: your passion, your values, and your work style. As described in chapter “ The Framework for this Book: The Socioecological Model,” these topics are part of the innermost circle of the socioecological model, which is the individual (YOU, baby!). Each of these aspects of who you are is interlinked and affects your research career. Each requires you to focus on yourself to best understand what and how you want to lead your career as a scientist. In each section we will ask you to reflect and define what your passions, values, and work style are or will be. These are topics you will return to throughout your career, to reaffirm or strengthen and to modify or redirect. Consistent periodic self-reflection will best allow you to move forward in your career and really rock science to its core.

A hobby or passion is an important tool that can help you in your research career, says Manasi Kulkarni-Khasnis. A hobby or passion is an important tool that can help you in your research career, says Manasi Kulkarni-Khasnis.

Background Involvement of clinicians in biomedical research is imperative for the future of healthcare. Several factors influence clinicians’ inclination towards research: the medical school experience, exposure to research article reading and writing, and knowledge of research. This cohort study follows up medical students at time of graduation to explore changes in their inclination towards research and pursuing a research career compared to their inclination at time of entry into medical school. Methods Students from medical schools in six different countries were enrolled in their first year of school and followed-up upon graduation in their final year. Students answered the same self-administered questionnaire at both time points. Changes in inclination towards research and pursuing a research career were assessed. Factors correlated with these changes were analysed. Results Of the 777 medical students who responded to the study questionnaire at entry into medical school, 332 (42.7%) completed the follow-up survey. Among these 332 students, there was no significant increase in inclination towards research or pursuing a research career over the course of their medical schooling. Students from a United States based school, in contrast to those from schools other countries, were more likely to report having research role models to guide them (51.5% vs. 0%–26.4%) and to have published in a peer-reviewed journal (75.7% vs. 8.9%–45%). Absence of a role model was significantly associated with a decrease in inclination towards research, while an increased desire to learn more about statistics was significantly associated with an increase in inclination towards pursuing a research career. Conclusion Most medical students did not experience changes in their inclination towards research or pursuing a research career over the course of their medical schooling. Factors that increased their inclination to undertaking research or pursuing a research career were availability of a good role model, and a good knowledge of both the research process and the analytical tools required. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

Caroline Harwood is a microbiologist working to decipher pathways of biodegradation, signal transduction, and biofuel exploration at the biochemical and molecular levels. In addition to her research career, she is also an excellent writer and mentor whose enthusiasm for sciences fosters a truly collaborative atmosphere. This chapter by Rebecca E. Parales and Margaret McFall-Ngai covers Dr. Harwood’s career and personal reflections from the authors as well as a number of her mentees from over the years.

Diana Downs is a microbial physiologist who exemplifies the application of creativity and persistence in research by challenging paradigms through elegant incorporation of genetics and biochemistry to dissect metabolic pathways. Focusing on the robustness of one essential pathway, Diana’s research has unraveled metabolism while defining function of numerous enzymes. Her approach to research has shaped her unique mentoring style, which encourages students to challenge ideas and preconceptions, to temper excitement and curiosity with rigorous and creative experimentation, and to develop independence. Her approach has inspired many of her female students, including me, to be confident in our work, find our passion, and build successful careers in both academia and industry.

Cardiologist and molecular and cell biologist Gerald Dorn, MD, has built his research career crafting interesting questions and teaching himself techniques needed to find answers. Using approaches including genetic and physiological manipulation in animal models, development of mini-mouse technology to elucidate cardiac mysteries, and human genetics/genomics, Dorn is helping to unravel cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying cardiomyopathy and heart failure.1,2 Gerald W. Dorn II Dorn, 57, is founding director of the Center for Pharmacogenomics at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, where he joined the faculty in 2008. As a teenager Dorn sped through high school, starting college two years early. He earned his medical degree and trained in internal medicine, pharmacology, and clinical and interventional cardiology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, where two key mentors sparked in him a passion for patient care and research. After a couple of years at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Dorn moved to the University of Cincinnati, where an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award kick-started his research program. From 1990 to 2008 Dorn rose through the ranks at Cincinnati, capitalizing on the institution’s strength in mouse cardiac transgenesis. Dorn’s current interests include molecular mechanisms of cell death,3 microRNA regulation of cardiac genes,4 and mitochondrial dynamism5—work that has expanded to Parkinson’s disease. Building on an upbringing that valued lifelong growth, and drawing from his own broad experience, Dorn now leverages the holism of systems biology to fill in what he calls his field’s “infinitely large shades of gray.” My father was a career naval aviator. Whenever he moved, we moved. So I’m not really from anywhere. We spent a lot of time on both coasts. As a child I lived, in addition to …