While postdoctoral researchers (postdocs) are an increasingly important and productive
group of employees in academia, they lack further career prospects and embeddedness …

This paper investigates how the recruitment and selection for project-based postdoc
positions are organised in the current academic landscape characterised by increasing …

Over the past two decades, debates surrounding the marketization of higher education
worldwide have intensified. The impact it is having specifically on academics and their …

Today's education faces many challenges related to learning and teaching efficiency,
effectiveness, and costs. Contemporary research shows that the learning environment with …

This article examines how macro-discourses of internationalisation and excellence shape
formal and applied selection criteria for early-career researcher positions at the meso …

Increasing numbers of postdoctoral scholars are pursuing diverse career paths that require
broad skill sets to ensure success. However, most postdoctoral professional learning and …

Postdoctoral scholars are a critical labor source within academia, and a postdoc
appointment has become a prerequisite to most academic science careers. A small but …

Postgraduate students are navigating a rapidly evolving landscape for their future careers. In
this context, higher education providers are responsible for supporting and monitoring …

The Postdoc Academy: Succeeding as a Postdoc was designed to build postdocs' skills in
career transition, career planning, collaborative research, resilience, and self-reflection. This …

In this article, we investigate how the globalized academic labor market has changed the
composition of teaching and research staff at Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish universities …