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<div dir="ltr">Reminder- <br>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";">Dear Postdocs, <br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";"> Please see below
the reminder/invitation to take a voluntary, confidential survey
(forwarded from a colleague at Harvard), if you are interested.
</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 below, and the survey link is <a
href="http://goo.gl/my1SfL" target="_blank"
style="font-size:10px"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt
none windowtext;padding:0in;background:rgb(255,255,211)">goo.gl/my1SfL</span></b></a>
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<div>Melanie Sinche wrote, "I am entering the final week of data
collection for my study, "Identifying Career Pathways for PhDs
in Science," and would like to request your help once more in
spreading the word. I will close the survey one week from
today, May 8... Again, this study is measuring career outcomes
for PhDs in any field of science, including the social
sciences and engineering, who graduated between 2004 and 2014.<br>
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style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">**<br>
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></p>
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style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span
style="font-size:11pt;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></p>
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style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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, you are
invited to participate in a <b>survey </b>study by
completing the online survey below.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span
style="font-size:11pt;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 Amazon.com. Responses to this optional drawing
will not be linked in any way to the Career Pathways
survey.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.7272720336914px"><b><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
survey can be found at </span></b><a
href="http://goo.gl/my1SfL" target="_blank"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1pt
none
windowtext;padding:0in;background:rgb(255,255,211)">goo.gl/my1SfL</span></b></a><b><span
style="font-size:10pt">.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span
style="font-size:11pt;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"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">msinche@gmail.com</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> or <a
href="tel:919-270-9387" target="_blank">919-270-9387</a> with
any questions about this study.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.7272720336914px"><span
style="font-size:11pt;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></p>
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<div>Melanie V. Sinche, NCC<br>
Senior Research Associate</div>
<div>Labor and Worklife Program</div>
<div>Harvard Law School</div>
<div><a
href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/LWPstaff.html"
target="_blank">http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp/LWPstaff.html</a><br>
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<div><a href="mailto:msinche@gmail.com" target="_blank">msinche@gmail.com</a></div>
<div>919-270-9387</div>
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