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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";">Dear Postdocs, <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
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Please see below the invitation to take a voluntary,
confidential survey. This inquiry has been forwarded from a
colleague at Harvard through GECD. </span>Results from this
survey will form the basis for the last chapter of a book she is
writing on careers for science PhDs. Details are in her message
below. <o:p></o:p></p>
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[<b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Survey
link: </span></b><a href="http://goo.gl/my1SfL"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FFFFD3">goo.gl/my1SfL]</span></b></a><o:p></o:p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">While
the number of PhDs conferred in the U.S. has increased
over the past several decades, the number of
tenure-track faculty positions has remained flat.
Recent studies have illuminated the change in career
decisions of some PhDs over time, but none has
described or visualized a career map detailing <b>where</b> recent
PhDs are currently employed.</span><span
style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
study “Identifying Career Pathways for PhDs in
Science” will endeavor to accomplish this visual
representation by collecting current employment data
from PhDs who have studied, worked, or trained in the
U.S. and received a doctorate in the last ten years.
The study author and administrator is Melanie Sinche,
Senior Research Associate in the Labor and Worklife
Program at Harvard Law School.</span><span
style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><b>If
you have received a PhD in any of the physical,
life, engineering, computational, or social sciences
between 2004 and 2014 from any institution worldwide
and have ever studied, worked, or trained in the
United States</b>, you are invited to participate in
a <b>survey </b>study by completing the online survey
below.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete and
includes questions about career interests, activities,
current employment, and motivations for choosing your
career. At the end of the survey, you will be invited
to participate in a drawing for one of five (5) $100
gift cards to
<a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a>. Responses
to this optional drawing will not be linked in any way
to the Career Pathways survey.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
survey can be found at </span></b><a
href="http://goo.gl/my1SfL"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:#FFFFD3">goo.gl/my1SfL</span></b></a><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif"">.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Participation
in this study is entirely voluntary. The study has
been approved by the Committee on the Use of Human
Subjects at Harvard University (IRB #15-0063) To
protect the privacy of participants, responses to the
Career Pathways survey will be encrypted and kept on a
password-protected, encrypted computer at all times.
Please contact Melanie Sinche at </span><a
href="mailto:msinche@gmail.com"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">msinche@gmail.com</span></a><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> or
919-270-9387 with any questions about this study.</span><span
style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank
you in advance for participating, and please do share
the survey link with all individuals and/or groups who
might meet the criteria above. Our goal is to gather
as many responses as possible from recent PhDs to
develop a careers map that is as comprehensive as
possible.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Melanie V. Sinche, NCC<br>
Senior Research Associate<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Labor and Worklife Program<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Harvard Law School<o:p></o:p></p>
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href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/LWPstaff.html"
target="_blank">http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/LWPstaff.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="mailto:msinche@gmail.com" target="_blank">msinche@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">919-270-9387<o:p></o:p></p>
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