Clinical academics’ postdoctoral career development

Factors that influence career progression among postdoctoral clinical academics: a scoping review of the literature

BACKGROUND The future of academic medicine is uncertain. Concerns regarding the future availability of qualified and willing trainee clinical academics have been raised worldwide. Of significant concern is our failure to retain postdoctoral trainee clinical academics, who are likely to be our next generation of leaders in scientific discovery. OBJECTIVES To review the literature about factors...

Women Being and Becoming Academics: Exploring gendered career journeys and their implications for Academic Development

Whilst the literature of academic identity is well represented in the sociology of Higher Education (HE) in the UK, personal narratives of journeys through the process of being and becoming an academic are less present. The potential of narrative methodology to produce different knowledge by producing knowledge differently (St. Pierre, 1997) is used as a conceptual framework to co-construct cas...

Career Development

Should nurse academics engage in clinical practice?

The education of nurses has traditionally been conducted in the hospital based setting. This changed over the last few decades, with nursing education now being a tertiary based course in many countries. There were numerous reasons for this move, the main goal being to improve the educational experience of students and thus the competence of graduates. Nurse academics whose role is to educate s...

Clinical trials and tribulations: perspectives on research career development.

e created the Journal’s “Focus on Early Career Psychiatrists” section to highlight work from investigators embarking on research careers for several reasons. Early career researchers face challenges unique to their career stage, and they often bring exciting and fresh ideas to important problems. Lessons in career development can be as interesting as the research itself. We invited the authors ...