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| Example of first level analysis |
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| Subject | A passion for their research area, an inclination towards collaboration, a disposition towards learning, aspirations about a career I guess and being clear about where they are and where they would like to be. |
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| Object | Expected outcomes are that the research productivity of the school, not just the people themselves but the whole school will be raised by, if you like, this injection of research enthusiasm and capacity in the school. |
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| Activity | The demonstrable integration of teaching and research that postdocs are able to demonstrate provides a very healthy model for the rest of the faculty about how this actually can be done. And the work that they do in their postdoctoral research contributes to the richness of the teaching inside the faculty. |
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| Artifact | …support them in terms of professional development funds and certainly in terms of the culture and connectedness of the school, they’re able to come and participate in any school based activities, so they’re certainly a part of what I encourage them to do and invite them to do, obviously they’re able to attend teaching and learning and research seminars within the school. |
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| Rules | I think it’s a question of how much autonomy and independence these people can be given. We’ve said they’re incredible researchers and have remarkable potential. Well then don’t let’s put sort of constraints on their geographic location when we know that they can work so well independently without that necessary kind of minute supervision and be here every day. |
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| Community of practice | As a listener I guess that, you can come to me with crazy ideas and ask me about them. And I can say yes or no, collectively and individually, without sometimes having to have that, supervisory role that you actually have with your, with the research group leader. |
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| Division of labor | I think the general role is about bringing the post doc on as a partner in the work that’s being done but also to stimulate his or her own directions in terms of research.
She is a full member of the team; she has expertise and what we need to do is to develop that expertise and share what we can do. |
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| History | In 2006 there was a lot of discussion about the need to improve research productivity, the need to grow research capacity and there was a plan in place that had just been worked through earlier in the year about possible ways to do that. And one of the thoughts, one of the strategies written into that plan was the possibility of having Post Docs, and as a way to really boost the capacity of the researchers in the faculty as a strategy to start doing things differently, to start forming research teams, to really try to work on building critical mass. |
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