Holding a post-doctoral position before becoming a faculty member: does it bring benefits for the scholarly enterprise?

Horta, Hugo

doi:10.1007/s10734-009-9221-1

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“…17 We further delete observations with missing values and logical inconsistencies, and end up with a total of 22, 412 observations in our sample. 18 14 The disciplines in the "services" category include fields of study such as Hotel and Catering, Travel and Tourism, Sports, Sport Science and Technology, Sports and Leisure, Beauty Treatment, Railway Operations, Road Motor Vehicle Operations, Air Crew, Air Traffic Control, Nautical Science, Ship's Officer, Postal Service, Civil Security, Military, and other services.…”

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Does Holding a Postdoctoral Position Bring Benefits for Advancing to Academia?

Lin

Chiu

2015

Res High Educ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Postdoc is a special transitional position for those with a doctoral degree and is usually regarded as an investment to accumulate the additional human and social capital needed to facilitate future job searches or to add to an academic reserve army of unemployed PhDs. Given the prevalence of postdoctoral positions nowadays, it is crucial to explore the role played by postdoctoral participation in the post-PhD labor market. By taking advantage of a comprehensive data set from the National Profiles of Human Resources in Science and Technology in Taiwan, we first explore several characteristics associated with the choice of a postdoctoral position for newly-minted doctoral degree holders, such as age, discipline or the time taken to complete the degree. We then apply the control function approach to address the possible endogenous decision of postdoctoral experience when estimating the effects of postdoctoral positions on the current career choices between academic and non-academic jobs. The empirical results suggest that engaging in postdoctoral positions could increase the probability of advancing to the academic sector by about 6.1%. The heterogeneous effects of gender, major and cohort in regard to the postdoctoral experience are also found by splitting the data. Moreover, we experiment with several groupings for the definition of being awarded an academic position and obtain very robust empirical results. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: I2, J24

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Section: Data and Statistical Methods 41 Data Descriptionmentioning

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Does Holding a Postdoctoral Position Bring Benefits for Advancing to Academia?

Lin

Chiu

2015

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“…Moreover, universities in Portugal still rely heavily on public policies to develop (Horta, 2009(Horta, , 2010). Yet, the government strategy for the IPPs raised policy questions regarding the selection of the US as opposed to European universities, the formats of the partnerships, and the priority fields of knowledge.…”

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Setting-up an international science partnership program: A case study between Portuguese and US research universities

Horta

Patrício

2016

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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International partnerships between universities are expanding and diversifying worldwide. Policymakers have understood that an active strategy of partnering national universities with world-class universities can bring socio-economic returns, and promote change. This article analyzes the background and logic behind the design and early development of an ongoing international partnership program established between a medium-sized European country and three prominent US research universities in 2006. Our findings show that political will, combined with an academic background and experience, have enabled the policymakers to learn from other international partnerships, and shape the involvement with the US universities. The role of "champion" policymakers was critical to the establishment of the partnerships before and during the initial period. Throughout this process the role of previous science policies and networks were found to have leveraged national research groups to collaborate and benefit from the IPPs, and supported long-term research collaboration ties with US universities. Portuguese faculty at US universities mediated the interaction between US and Portuguese academics and policymakers, and promoted the partnerships within their universities. Finally, the policymaker's focus on institutional competition was able to draw on the competitiveness of academics and institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, encouraging individuals and institutions to increase their involvement.

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“…In particular, increased opportunity to publish and attract external funding contributes to the development of research fellows' profiles, building their academic identities, establishing their place in the academic world, and potentially fast-tracking their career [6]. Moreover, if the research fellowship position is outside their home country it can support research fellows' integration into international networks [11].…”

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Developing “the Wings to Really Fly”: The Experiences of Four Postdoctoral Research Fellows within an Australian University Faculty of Education

Turunen

Wong

Bristol

et al. 2014

Education Research International

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Postdoctoral research fellowships are a recent phenomenon in teacher education and little has been documented about them. This paper presents findings from a study in which the experiences of research fellows in a rural university were investigated. The data were gathered as audio recordings from peer mentoring meetings, notes from these meetings, individual reflective journals, and interviews conducted with six key informants. The analysis highlights that the experience of research fellowships was marked by a need to negotiate four competing, though not necessarily exclusive, demands related to the institute's research productivity, its research culture and teaching, and personal professional goals. A range of institutional practices and individual characteristics mediated these negotiations.

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Holding a post-doctoral position before becoming a faculty member: does it bring benefits for the scholarly enterprise?

Cited by 90 publications

References 35 publications

Does Holding a Postdoctoral Position Bring Benefits for Advancing to Academia?

Does Holding a Postdoctoral Position Bring Benefits for Advancing to Academia?

Setting-up an international science partnership program: A case study between Portuguese and US research universities

Developing “the Wings to Really Fly”: The Experiences of Four Postdoctoral Research Fellows within an Australian University Faculty of Education

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