Stigma and spoiled identities: rescripting career norms for precariously employed academic staff

Medical Staff Employed in Burdwan

Academic and Research Staff

Our general objectives are concerned with the study of atomic and molecular processes and with the transport of charged particles in weakly ionized collision-dominated plasmas. During the past year our efforts in this field have been on a rather modest scale. The research that we have conducted was concerned with the effects of pipe turbulence on the electrical conductivity and on the diffusion...

Academic and Research Staff

In an earlier study Gruberg and Solish showed that salamander somatosensory spino-tectal fibers took the same course and ended in the same layer of the intermediate tectal neuropil as 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT or serotonin) fibers as seen by Falck-Hillarp fluorescence. In order to determine whether the spino-tectal fibers are themselves serotonergic, we have carried out anatomical, biochemical,...

The ontogeny of career identities in adolescence.

Exploration and identity formation are primary developmental tasks during adolescence and the transition to adulthood. Yet little is known about occupational identity formation and growth during this period of life. In this chapter, the authors describe their ongoing research on this topic. First, they present their findings on the ontogeny of the complexity of career identities. Then they disc...

Reflections on an academic career

There are many undefined aspects to an academic medical career. This article attempts to provide some guidance about things to consider.