NPA 2016 recap: Advocacy Kyle Dolan PDA Seminar – 15 April
What I did at NPA 2016… Innovation In Action workshop: “Creating policy-focused regional symposia for grassroots advocacy” (co-presenters: Sarah Mazzilli, BU/Niki Athanasiadou, NYU) – Poster: “Postdoctoral advocacy in action: Lessons from the Future of Research Chicago Symposium” –
Current topics in scientific advocacy Size of the trainee population, esp. postdocs Career outcomes after PhD/postdoc training Funding crunch and effect on young investigators New models of publishing (OA, preprints)
How you can participate in reforming scientific training and culture Take the National Postdoc Survey! Follow/join an organization: – Future of Research Chicago – Rescuing Biomedical Research – ASAPbio (asapbio.org, #ASAPbio) – NPA Advocacy Committee – Scientific societies (e.g. ASCB
Tools for creating an advocacy campaign/symposium Logistics of organizing the FOR Symposium: organizing-the-for-symposium NPA Postdoc Symposium Toolkit: mposium Midwest Academy Strategy Chart: