[PDF] Survey Of Postdoctorates At Ffrdcs eBook

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Release : 2010
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The 2009 FFRDC survey collected the total number of postdocs employed by FFRDCs in the United States--categorized by source of support, citizenship, sex, and field of research--as of October 1, 2009. The universe for the 2009 GSS-FFRDC survey was the Master Government List of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers. The 2009 survey also contacted the NIH's Intramural Research Program because it employs the largest number of postdocs in the federal government. The FFRDC survey collected data via a web instrument. Topics included the type of support the postdocs received (federal and nonfederal), their sex, citizenship, race/ethnicity, and field of research.

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Release : 2000
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Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) are organizations that perform research and development and are exclusively or substantially financed by the federal government and are supported by the federal government either to meet a particular R & D objective or, in some instances, to provide major facilities at universities for research and associated training purposes. Many FFRDCs employ postdoctoral researchers (postdocs). The 2009 FFRDC survey collected the total number of postdocs employed by FFRDCs in the United States--categorized by source of support, citizenship, sex, and field of research--as of October 1, 2009.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2018-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309469139

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The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), one of the nation's principal statistical agencies, is charged to collect, acquire, analyze, report, and disseminate statistical data related to the science and engineering enterprise in the United States and other nations that is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and to the public. NCSES data, based primarily on several flagship surveys, have become the major evidence base for American science and technology policy, and the agency is well respected globally for these data. This report assesses and provides guidance on NCSES's approach to measuring the science and engineering workforce population in the United States. It also proposes a framework for measuring the science and engineering workforce in the next decade and beyond, with flexibility to examine emerging issues related to this unique population while at the same time allowing for stability in the estimation of key trends

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309093201

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This report examines the portfolio of research and development (R&D) expenditure surveys at the National Science Foundation (NSF), identifying gaps and weaknesses and areas of missing coverage. The report takes an in-depth look at the definition of R&D, the needs and potential uses of NSF's R&D data by a variety of users, the goals of an integrated system of surveys and other data collection activities, and the quality of the data collected in the existing Science Resources Statistics surveys.

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on a Study of Postdoctorals in Science and Engineering in the United States
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 1981
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Detailed findings on a broad range of issues concerning the importance of postdoctorals to the nation's research effort and the value of postdoctoral experience to young scientists and engineers pursuing careers in research are presented. The report, the first comprehensive study of postdoctorals in 10 years, identifies the following issues: (1) the lack of prestige and research independence in postdoctoral appointments for the most talented young people; (2) the mismatch between the important role that postdoctorals play in the nation's research enterprise and the lack of opportunities that they find for subsequent careers in research; (3) the lack of recognized status of postdoctoral appointments in the academic community; and (4) the underutilization of women and members of minority groups in scientific research. Chapters include: an explanation and background of the study; a historical overview of postdoctoral education; changing employment patterns; postdoctoral paths to careers in research; an examination of issues from the perspective of postdoctorals; postdoctoral contribution to research; and findings and recommendations. Four specific recommendations are made: (1) establishment of 250 federally supported, portable postdoctoral fellowships annually, for specially qualified young scientists and engineers with two-year stipends competitive with employment salaries and with some research expense funds to foster innovative research; (2) establishment of 50 additional fellowships a year, similar to those described above, but expressly for minority Ph.D. recipients; (3) establishment, at every university with sizable numbers of nonfaculty research personnel, of a standing committee on postdoctorals and other nonfaculty doctoral research staff to review the situations of members of these groups on its campus and to recommend university policies; and (4) expansion of the National Science Foundation's longitudinal data-gathering effort to include a survey specially focused on career decisions of young scientists and engineers. Numerous figures, tables and appendices are provided. (LC)

Author : Committee to Review the State of Postdoctoral Experience in Scientists and Engineers
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309314466

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This report makes the case for better data collection by research institution and data sharing. A larger goal of this study is not only to propose ways to make the postdoctoral system better for the postdoctoral researchers themselves but also to better understand the role that postdoctoral training plays in the research enterprise. It is also to ask whether there are alternative ways to satisfy some of the research and career development needs of postdoctoral researchers that are now being met with several years of advanced training.