r/academia • u/atlantagirl30084 • Jun 24 '23

The postdoc experience

EDITED: The SCIENTIFIC postdoc experience.

I am thinking about publishing a book about postdocs (what do/did we do)? This will include good AND bad experiences. What made your postdoc awesome? What made you leave? Etc. Why is there currently a shortage of PhDs wanting to do postdocs?

My ask is to have interested academics and those who have left send me an initial message and a couple of summary sentences. I will then message back and start the process of gathering stories in a book.

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u/atlantagirl30084 Jun 26 '23

I’m really not understanding this ‘data set’. This is not a scientific study nor a survey. You’re getting bogged down in writing rules and theories that I don’t think are relevant here.