Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers A Guide for Postdoctoral Scholars, Advisers, Institutions, Funding Organizations, and Disciplinary Societies (2000) / Chapter Skim
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The Postdoc and the Funding Organization
The Postdoc and the Funding Organization
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The federal agencies that support research, especially the NIH and NSF, have a dominant position in establishing compensation levels. In the life sciences, the NIH supports about 7,000 postdocs via NRSA traineeships, about 6,500 through research grants, and 2,800 through fellowships for trainees at its main campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
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When postdocs are supported on the research grants of PIs, they are essentially hired to work on particular projects in specific locations. The organizations that provide this grant money (such as federal agencies)
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As models, some federal grants request that applicants for research grants provide evidence of mentoring ability. The NSF requires researchers who have received prior investigator grants to describe, when request
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The period after a postdoc can bring great uncertainty and additional time may be needed to write grant proposals and/or seek the next research position. Funding organizations can specifically encourage certain activities by postdocs, such as authoring papers, mentoring technicians and graduate students, and especially teaching.
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Lack of communication may be especially important for postdocs supported on research grants, which are channeled through an institution. A communication mechanism would create a much-needed means for postdocs to obtain information directly from the funding organization and to communicate it to their postdoctoral association or institution.
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(~ ~24~ 93 requesting information essential to an assessment of the effectiveness of this program," including the recipient's "...employment history, publications, support from research grants or contracts, honors and awards, professional activities, and other information helpful in evaluating the impact of the program." In other words, the productivity of a grantee is judged to be an indicator of the quality of the mentoring received under the grant.
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