Career Guidance Workshop for Trainees (US and Canada)

The workshop will develop participants’ research evaluation skills while creating new career-focused interventions or activities for use at the participants’ home institutions. In the year following the workshop, participants will each develop their research and evaluation networks, run their project with support from a $15,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, submit their results for presentation at a national meeting, and produce a rigorously prepared manuscript for publication.

Eight seats are available.

Who may apply?

• Academic administrators whose work is at least 80% focused on career development activities focused on graduate students or postdoctoral fellows at a research focused institution in the United States or Canada and who have been in this type of role for at least 3 years (36 months) but not more than 7 years (84 months) may apply. Employees of both non-profit degree granting institutions and independent research institutes may apply.
• Typically, successful applicants will be running substantial activities within graduate career centers, postdoctoral offices, or interdepartmental graduate programs. Some, but not most, faculty serve roles that are appropriate— the requirement for 80% effort is a good guide. This workshop is not targeted to education researchers or trainees in education research unless they meet all other requirements above (time in position, 80% effort focused on providing career development to grad students and/ or postdocs).

Requirements

• Applicants must be in an accredited doctoral degree granting institution or other professionally-focused non-profit in the United States or Canada. Applicant organizations may submit multiple proposals, but an individual may only serve as a principal investigator on one.
• This call for proposals is open to both single institutions and institutions working in partnerships. Academic institutions, professional societies, and advocacy organizations are among the appropriate drivers of proposals. Only non-profit institutions may be supported by BWF’s award, but nonprofits may involve for profit organizations in their proposals.
• This program does not support biomedical research projects proposed by individual investigators. Eligible proposals will include rationale/vision for the project, including who it is intended to impact and how it will change their career readiness.
• Institutions and organizations that have received an earlier CGT award are eligible to apply again. Individuals may serve as principal investigators on a funded award up to two times.

For more information, visit Burroughs Wellcome Fund.