Enhancing the quality of the experience of Postdoctoral Fellows and Early Career Researchers

本提案旨在通过为博士后和早期职业研究人员提供能力，提高他们作为专业研究人员的效率，从而提高他们的经验质量。该项目的目的是，通过使用针对高级首席研究员和ecr的调查问卷，概述澳大利亚研究人员技能发展的现状。在此基础上，将为120名博士后和ecr以及12名专家演讲者制定为期三天的密集住宅研讨会计划。讲习班的内容和重点部分将由调查问卷的结果决定，但将认识到一些关键技能已经在研究培训的经验中发展起来，但很难表达出来。这些技能将被确定并更加明确，但将在研究管理的许多方面提供建议，包括研究中的道德行为、学生监督、知识产权保护、资助、研究商业化以及ECRs面临的许多其他问题。密集研讨会的一个重要目的是从参与者那里获得重要的评价和反馈。这一反馈将允许对研讨会期间提出的材料进行修订，以确保制作一本研究管理最佳实践手册，并将其纳入澳大利亚的每个研究实验室。澳大利亚科学院理事会在2006年9月21日的会议上认识到，根据LASP07资助规则，该手册的制作可能没有资格获得资助，并决定从科学院自己的资源中拿出5万美元用于编写、设计、编辑和印刷该手册。该手册将成为美国出版物《做出正确的举动——博士后和新教员科学管理实用指南》(2004年：由

This proposal aims to enhance the quality of the experience of postdoctoral fellows (postdocs) and early-career researchers (ECRs) by providing them with competencies that will improve their effectiveness as professional researchers. The project aims, through the use of questionnaires directed at senior Principal Investigators and ECRs, to outline the current situation with regards to skills development for Australian researchers. Based on this research, or a program for three-day intensive residential workshop will be developed for 120 postdocs and ECRs and 12 expert presenters. The content and emphasis of the workshop will be shaped in part by the outcome of the questionnaire, but will recognise that some key skills are already developed within the experience of research training but are difficult to articulate. These skills will be identified and made more explicit, but complemented with advice on many aspects of research management ranging from ethical conduct in research, student supervision, protection of intellectual property, grantsmanship, commercialisation of research and many other matters that confront ECRs. A critical purpose of the intensive workshop is to obtain crucial evaluation and feedback from the participants. This feedback will permit revision of the material presented during the workshop to ensure production of a best-practice manual for research management that should find its way into every Australian research laboratory. The Council of the Australian Academy of Science, at its meeting on 21 September 2006, recognised that production of the manual may not be eligible for funding under the LASP07 funding rules and resolved that up to $50,000 from the Academy of Science’s own resources should be committed to writing, designing, editing and printing of the manual. The manual will be an Australian counterpart to the US publication Making the Right Moves – A practical guide to scientific management for postdocs and new faculty (2004:published by