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Graduate Training in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Graduate Training in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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To help identify how SBS graduate education could be adapted given these trends, the Board on Science Education convened a 2-day workshop in June 2017 on graduate training in the social and behavioral sciences. Participants included current SBS graduate students, postdoctoral fel lows, faculty and academic leaders, members of professional societies, funding agencies, and leaders in government and business.
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Second, there is a growing trend percent, a rate lower than that for PhDs in among new PhDs, including those with the other sciences. SBE degrees, to seek employment outside Kaplan added that nearly 40 percent of SBE of academia, where they are better paid PhDs do postdoctoral training.
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explained that clini- training prepared them for their careers, cally oriented programs have unique fea- focusing on their decisions to pursue catures of training that should be examined reers outside academia, what jobs outside separately from other programs. In par- of academia are like, and their PhD training ticular, clinical psychologists need train- as preparation for their careers.
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Learning how to be criticized, be- grams might better equip students for come expert in a subject matter, and to success outside academia. conduct independent research were other Rachel Kleinfeld (Carnegie Endowment valuable experiences.
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described an immersive, 12-15 week conducted. "boot camp" model for providing data Gan echoed others' comments that build- analytics and web development training ing relationships and focusing on the needs that is part of their work at Metis and Dev of policy makers is essential, and she add- Bootcamp, respectively, which are part of ed that humility and knowing how to go the New Economy Skills Training Division about finding an answer are key elements at Kaplan.
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One barrier to a different approach gested that more and better use of computational social science would make SBS is changing a faculty culture that emphagraduates better collaborative partners sizes replicating professors' own trainwith people from other disciplines that ing and career paths; changing faculty rely on those methods. He also noted that reviews, creating internships, and having technological advancement has made more conversations about the changing available large amounts of data on social pathways could help bring about culture and behavioral phenomena, but SBS may change, he suggested.
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Future Another initiative provides students with curricula should aim to shorten the time opportunities to work internationally in to degree, especially for those who plan science. A third initiative provides annual to work outside academia: several particiseminars and internship opportunities for pants echoed this point throughout the graduate students to learn and work with workshop.
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(12) Consider how undergradu- to help their students survive in this highly ate education and postdoctoral work can competitive world." To do so requires skills complement graduate training.
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(University of INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING Pennsylvania) has been changing the aca- Individual participants generated a range demic culture to allow for broader ideas of ideas: (1)
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Whitfield noted that Several panel discussions addressed ways such initiatives as the Minority Biomedical to increase diversity of graduate students Research Student Program, of which he was in SBS graduate programs and individual a beneficiary, have been effective. participants generated suggestions for Individual participants offered a range of tackling this issue.
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suggested seeking broader collab- next generation of PhD programs, which oration with industry, both to fund gradu- is likely to require a significant academic ate training and to identify industry needs. culture change and which may be difficult.
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. Graduate Training in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief.
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