SAKURAI, Hidehiro Associate Professor HIGASHIBAYASHI, Shuhei Assistant Professor PANDA, Gautam Visiting Scientist; JSPS Invited Fellow MURUGADOSS, Arumugam Visiting Scientist; JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow TAN, Qi-Tao Visiting Scientist; JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow MORITA, Yuki Post-Doctoral Fellow SUGIISHI, Tsuyuka Post-Doctoral Fellow REZA, A. F. G. Masud Visiting Scientist (JASSO Follow-up Researc...

Recent reports express concern about the sustainability of biomedical research enterprise in its current form. Recurring concerns include predictability and funding for research, regulatory burden training next generation workforce. One specific is duration periods during pre-doctoral post-doctoral studies. This article addresses issue time-to-degree (TTD) doctorates. Many stress importance sho...

A number of issues and challenges in doctoral nursing education were presented at the biennial meeting of the International Network for Doctoral Education in Nursing in June 2007. The themes addressed included: global health workforce shortages and the aging of the nursing workforce; the need for more nursing doctoral programs; strengthening of the research training in doctoral programs, and th...

In the 1950s, young faculty in Psychology and Physiology/Biology at the newly established Florida State University recognized common interests in the study of sensory systems. They spontaneously formed one of this country's earliest interdisciplinary research cohorts in the emerging field of "psychobiology". In the 1960s, this group established a formal graduate program in Psychobiology, acquir...

EDWARD STUART (b. 1965) studied Pharmacology at University College Dublin, Ireland where he obtained his B.Sc. (1987), M.Sc. (1988) and Ph.D. (1992). His doctoral thesis concerned the influence of the sympathetic nervous system on the liver and was performed in the University of Berne, Switzerland. He received post-doctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gotting...

The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies initiated an interorganizational task force to develop guidelines for integrated education and training in cognitive and behavioral psychology at the doctoral level in the United States. Fifteen task force members representing 16 professional associations participated in a year-long series of conferences, and developed a consensus on optima...

In this paper, we argue that Design research is basic to countries’ national productivity and competition agendas at the same time that vagaries of research training presents as one of the barriers faced by Design Higher Degree by Research students in engaging those agendas. We argue that, given industry requirements for research-trained recruits, students have the right to expect that research...

The National Clinician Scientist Scheme was devised to enable future leaders of academic medicine to continue post-doctoral research and at the same time complete their specialist registrar training. The awards are generously funded by the major grant-giving bodies and are held in a variety of specialties in academic departments across the UK. Award winners are given the suffix A to add to thei...