{"id":873,"date":"2012-09-11T23:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T23:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/?p=873"},"modified":"2013-01-09T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T17:56:01","slug":"cirge-collaborates-to-design-the-researchers-career-track-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/cirge-collaborates-to-design-the-researchers-career-track-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"CIRGE collaborated with the  European Alliance on Research Careers Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Organized by the European Science Foundation, CIRGE participated in the workshop entitled \u201cHow to track the researcher\u2019s career\u201d in Luxembourg, February 2012. The event highlighted the relevance of research career tracking in the European research agenda.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to the main conclusions, knowing how researchers move in their careers will contribute to improve the quality of research, to understand the decision of researchers in their careers and to provide accountability to the tax-payers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By following up with doctoral graduates, surveying them after graduation, and tracking studies, CIRGE assessed the suitability of funding, the quality of training and working conditions offered during the doctoral phase, and also explored the quality of doctoral training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A major reason for carrying out career tracking studies is to provide the information on career movements and understand international and intersectoral mobility as well as employment patterns of researchers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On the other hand, these studies indirectly measure impact which is an interesting source for the funders of doctoral education, in most cases, tax payers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Maresi Nerad, key speaker in this workshop, asserted that career studies of masters and doctorates should be used with a broader purpose than for labor market concerns and to \u201cfocus on understanding the diverse developments of individual within intersections of their private lives, institutional and societal forces.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In her opinion, these studies should also take into account the many attempts undertaken by national research funding agencies for innovative interdisciplinary programs with international involvements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/http___www.esf_.org_index.php_eIDtx_nawsecuredlu0filefileadmin_be_user_CEO_Unit_MO_FORA_MOFORUM_EARCD_Publications_Career_Tracking_Workshop_FINALwith_cover.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">See final report<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esf.org\/activities\/mo-fora\/european-alliance-on-research-careers-development.html\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Review the site<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized by the European Science Foundation, CIRGE participated in the workshop entitled \u201cHow to track the researcher\u2019s career\u201d in Luxembourg, February 2012. The event highlighted the relevance of research career tracking in the European research agenda. According to the main conclusions, knowing how researchers move in their careers will contribute to improve the quality of research, to understand the decision of researchers in their careers and to provide accountability to the tax-payers. By following up with doctoral graduates, surveying them&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/cirge-collaborates-to-design-the-researchers-career-track-in-europe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CIRGE collaborated with the  European Alliance on Research Careers Development<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,372],"tags":[282,283],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phd-career-path-tracking","category-presentations-and-workshops","tag-graduate-path-career-track","tag-how-to-track-researchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/cirge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}