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Stayin’ Alive: being a postdoc in precademia
Tania Romacho
Vienna, 25th February, 2019www.mariecuriealumni.eu
Mind the gap-Equality and Diversity for Leadership
in the Research/Academic environment
First role model
long-distance race
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Unexpected turn
Precademia• Precariousness
• Hypermobility
• Inestability permadocs, eternal “early career” researchers
• Temporary workforce
Milojević S, Radicchi F, Walsh JP. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 115(50):12616-12623, 2018.
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Work-life balance
Woolston C. Workplace habits: Full-time is full enough. Nature 546: 175-177, 2017Gill, R. Breaking the silence: The hidden injuries of neo-liberal academia, 2009
Harder, Better, Faster , Stronger
Always “on”
Toxic shame The enthusiasm trap
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Unexpected turn (again)
The right to CARE and have CARE
CARE
Self
Child
Pet
Health
• Science policy
• Research only for the healthy and wealhy?
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Científicas en cifras, 2019
• Coming back “home”
• Good advances #ScientistorMother
• Underrepresentation
• Lack of stability
Breaking point
A: Professors; B: Permanent position;C: Senior postdoc; D: Early Postdoc
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Becoming a leader
Van Noorden R, Nature 557, 294-296; 2018.
• Integrative leadership• Be a leader not a boss• Be connected to your team• Stop perpetuating toxic models of leadership
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Table 2. Trainee Only Questions.
Mobley A, Linder SK, Braeuer R, Ellis LM, Zwelling L (2013) A Survey on Data Reproducibility in Cancer Research Provides Insights into Our Limited Ability to Translate Findings from the Laboratory to the Clinic. PLOS ONE 8(5): e63221. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063221https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0063221
Excellence at any cost?
“Publish or perish” vs. objectivity and integrity of research
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Reshaping role models
• One size does not fit all
• Different generations, different struggles
• Excellence and empathy
• Precademia is not only a female problem
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Reshaping role models
• One size does not fit all
• Different generations, different struggles
• Excellence and empathy
• Precademia is not only a female problem
Outlook
• Work-life balance: the right to CARE and have CARE
• Support for administrative burdens
• Stability and regulated incomes according to category
• Rethink standards for "excellence" in accordance to RRI
• Reshape role models and mentoring
• Leaders for integrative, diverse, equal teams (SAGE, Athena SWAN)
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Thank you!
[email protected] @T_Romacho
Dr. María Sánchez-LuqueCentre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS) Spanish National Research Council
Whether all is really lostor not depends entirely onwhether or not I am lost.Vaclav Havel
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