Naslov
Motivations and concerns of early career marine scientists

Autori
Wieczorek, Alina Madita ; Abdelouahab, Hinde ; Bušelić Garber, Ivana ; Courtene-Jones, Winnie ; de Bettignies, Florian ; Fais, Maria ; Custódio, Marco Freire ; Gammage, Louise C. ; Gillis, Lucy Gwen ; Greene, Eva ; Laukert, Georgi ; López Acosta, Maria ; Lubośny, Marek ; McKenna, Ryan ; Moréno-Andrés, Javier ; Palma Esposito, Fortunato ; Piarulli, Stefania ; Porter, Keegan ; Pradhan, Himansu K. ; Protopapa, Maria ; Romagnoni, Giovanni ; Scopetani, Costanza ; Silva Rocha, Ana Christina ; Suaria, Giuseppe ; Turk Dermastia, Timotej ; Våge, Selina ; Vieira, Rui Pedro

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, prošireni sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Book of Abstracts of the II International Congress of Young Marine Researchers / Montes-Pérez, Jorge J. ; Sammartino, Simone ; Iñiguez Moreno, Concepción ; Sánchez de Pedro Crespo, Raquel ; López Parages, Jorge ; Macías Andrade, Manuel - Málaga, 2019, 455-456

ISBN
978-84-09-13664-3

Skup
2nd International Congress of Young Marine Researchers

Mjesto i datum
Málaga, Španjolska, 01.10.2019. - 04.10.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
early career researcher, online survey, work-life balance

Sažetak
Introduction EuroMarine is committed to helping early career researchers and promote bottom-up science from the marine science community. The “Orienting Young Scientists of Euromarine (OYSTER)” group was formed early 2018 to engage with young scientists and soon expanded to include a forum of twenty PhDs and post-docs from member institutions located through 13 countries. The members help represent the views of early career scientists in the EuroMarine network and act as a conduit to other young scientists in their own institution. The aims of the OYSTER group include the contribution to the cohesive outreach and capacity building of young scientists across EuroMarine member organizations and to the development of initiatives to improve the ability of EuroMarine to integrate early career researchers into the European marine landscape. The OYSTER group has recently run a survey spanning institutions across Europe to develop advice for EuroMarine in matters pertaining to the support and development of student and early career researchers. The feedback collected from this survey will help to learn more about current issues concerning young scientists’ working environment, financial situation, research interests and future perspectives in science and it will facilitate the development of a supportive network to address some of these issues. Results We have gathered responses from over 450 scientists and even though, overall feedback concerning early career scientist work and life was positive some findings from the survey deserve to be given some consideration and require some attention by scientific institutions. Around one in five respondents feels that he/she isn’t treated fairly in their workplace. Also, almost 75% of respondents do things that are outside of their responsibilities from which less than half don’t mind doing it. Going further, the whole scientific world seems to be based on 1-3 years short term contracts which may have mobilising effects promoting active work of scientists but on the contrary have a huge impact on stability and work-life balance which can lead toward increased work stress, decreasing number of ambitious high-risk high-reward scientific projects and leakage of the best young scientific minds from academia towards stable job in industry. Also going up the career ladder (from MSc to Post-Doc) dreams and hopes about the future career are regularly diminished returning to a satisfactory level only with the stability of e.g. a research fellow position. What is more, young scientist across Europe very often suffer with their earning oscillating around local minimal or low skilled worker wage (tradingeconomics.com data from December 2018): Germany (1414-2050 Euro) ; Ireland (1614 Euro) ; Finland (1980 Euro) ; Poland (480 Euro) ; Croatia (464-506 Euro) ; Portugal (659-676 Euro) ; Spain (858-932 Euro) ; France (1498-1610 Euro) ; United Kingdom (1401- 1473 Euro) ; Italy (1130 Euro). This may influence their mental health forcing some of them to drop out or requiring them to maintain second jobs outside academia. These are only a few striking examples from the high amount of data (35 questions) gathered during our 2018 survey. In future OYSTER plan to continue their efforts to raise awareness about problems and concerns of early career marine researchers and support early career researchers through skill- sharing events and an online platform.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne prirodne znanosti, Biotehnologija

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