Making Sense of Scientific Mobility: How Italian Scientists Look Back on Their Trajectories of Mobility in the EU

Saint-Blancat, Chantal

doi:10.1057/s41307-017-0042-z

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“…This paper identifies with a growing number of scholars who call for a more nuanced understanding of academic mobility within today's increasingly stratified higher education system (see Ackers, 2008;Carozza and Menuccci, 2014). In particular, we emphasize the need to look at how academics make meaning of their mobility and how they plan their migration trajectories (Saint-Blancat, 2017). We focus specifically on the experiences of Asian-born faculty who migrated to take on tenure-track positions in Singapore after studying or working in prestigious institutions in the Europe and the US.…”

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Working Within the Aspiring Center: Professional Status and Mobilities Among Migrant Faculty in Singapore

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“…Motivation of highly skilled professionals' migration is characterized by the priority of non-economic factors, which enable to call it "knowledge migration" rather than "economic migration" [Dickson, 2003]. Financial support for projects is important, but scientists are also interested in the availability of modern research institutions, laboratories, equipment, and the qualification of local experts; of prime importance is the possibility to find a community in which science is respected and the social status of scientists is high Saint-Blancat, 2018].…”

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“…Although the "economic" motivation is still an important component of migration planning, it is often not a decisive factor. Scientists are interested in field-specific research institutions and laboratories, access to modern equipment, the possibility to find co-thinking colleagues and to collaborate with prominent specialists or a well-known scientific school, the opportunity to test and improve own skills and competence in other research teams Chepurenko, 2015;Saint-Blancat, 2018]. Moreover, the local academic networking is of great importance for the mobility decision-making [Jons, 2009].…”

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Interregional Mobility of Russian Researchers: Moving For A Promising Job

Galina

Александрович

2019

SSRN Journal

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Mobility of highly qualified personnel between countries and regions is closely related to the issue of the effective distribution of human resources and the prospects for the innovative development of the state. The focus of this study is the interregional mobility of Russian researchers: the geographical movements of scientists between different regions (subjects of the Russian Federation). The empirical base of the study is the data obtained in 2016-2017 during the questionnaire survey of 1880 Russian researchers. Two main aspects are analyzed: already accomplished movements of researchers (moving for the educational or working purposes) and the "attitude to mobility"-readiness to move in the future. The features of researchers depending on their mobility pattern are analyzed. Among the most researchers who had the experience of moving in the past (both for education and work purposes) develops the "attitude to mobility". In the future, they are more willing to consider various options for moving both "for interest" (to participate in an important large-scale project), and "for money" (to get the job with acceptable level of remuneration). There exists a category of Russian researchers who are ready to move "anywhere": both abroad and within Russia, to large and to small cities. Researchers who are not ready to move to the place that they consider as a small town in a remote region, are concerned about the prospects for professional growth, difficulties for the family, a different lifestyle, change of professional and personal social circle. These aspects should be taken into account in the development of various programs and measures aimed to stimulate internal academic mobility in Russia.

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“…International mobility fluxes develop along predictable patterns and are driven by differences in national science and technology systems alongside other country-specific factors. The world’s most successful national research systems, which generally offer more resources for research and better professional rewards, attract researchers from trailing countries [ 7 ], and additional fluxes tend to exist amongst top scientific institutions, as a consequence of the competition for leading scientists. However, Ackers [ 4 ] warns us about the tendency to associate geographic mobility with the excellence of the receiving institution.…”

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Investigating the Potential of Data from an Academic Social Network (GPS)

Marques

Bressan

Santos

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020

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There are several references in the literature highlighting the importance of the international scientific mobility studies and several examples of how this academic population has been characterized. Typically, the analysis of academic mobility has been conducted by applying extensive surveys to a “representative” sample, in a specific moment in time, in which the profile of the researchers, that are working or studying in a foreign country, is then inferred. These analyses may suffer of structural lack of representativeness since the target population is unknown. As a structural and inherent issue in this research field, this article presents the results provided by the Portuguese academic social network GPS (Global Portuguese Scientists). It uses a valuable and exclusive data set of the research experiences, provided by Portuguese researchers, to describe and understand the academic dynamic of these researchers over the last years. The analysis considers different socio-demographic characteristics and the type of research (position, scientific research area, duration of the experience) they have been doing. The analysis shows that GPS users are pulled to the core countries of the science world system and points out that each destination of the Portuguese diaspora is associated with specific features of the mobile researchers and their research activity.

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Making Sense of Scientific Mobility: How Italian Scientists Look Back on Their Trajectories of Mobility in the EU

Cited by 19 publications

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Working Within the Aspiring Center: Professional Status and Mobilities Among Migrant Faculty in Singapore

Working Within the Aspiring Center: Professional Status and Mobilities Among Migrant Faculty in Singapore

Interregional Mobility of Russian Researchers: Moving For A Promising Job

Investigating the Potential of Data from an Academic Social Network (GPS)

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