| No.2 March 2000 first page CONTENTS The Contract Research Experience Opportunities for progression and training Perceived advantages and disadvantages The next steps |
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NEXT STEPS The issues outlined in this Bulletin represent a sample of those identified through the early interviews and a far more detailed exploration will follow when the research is complete. Areas likely to be of interest include disciplinary differences, awareness and take-up of measures to support contract research staff development, and factors perceived as important in enabling contract researchers to build a career, such as geographical mobility and senior academic ‘patronage’. Issues raised from the qualitative work will also be used to inform the design of the follow-up survey which will take place in the summer of 2000. We would like to encourage all the researchers who have participated in the study so far to keep hold of their contract change record cards and return them to us if or when their contractual or employment situation changes, so that they can be included in the final stage of the project. We would also like to thank all of those researchers who have given up their valuable time to talk to us about the challenges of forging a research career while employed on a fixed term contract. Since the outset of the study, Kate Purcell has left IER to become Professor of Employment Studies at the University of the West of England, and Jane Pitcher has left to take up a research and policy development position within the voluntary sector. The research continues to be managed by Chris Hasluck, with Claire Simm and Ruth Shackleton working on both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the project. |
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