Next Generation Leader: A new postdoc to academia mentoring program

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Friday, 25 February 2022

About

Duke Next Generation Leaders is a new initiative at Duke aimed at bringing together cohorts of talented postdoctoral scientists and mentoring them on academic faculty careers. Selected candidates should be in the advanced stages of a postdoctoral fellowship and will be selected based on both research interests and their embodiment of the ideal of increasing diversity in the sciences. Selected Fellows will be paired with Duke faculty mentors, and will network with their mentors frequently. During a multi-day visit to Duke in the spring semester, fellows will present a seminar to the Duke community, interact with each other, and meet with departmental chairs and potential Duke collaborators. This fellow program will bring together a cohort of promising new faculty committed to diversity in the biomedical sciences and provide enhanced opportunities for diversity in faculty hiring in this area at Duke. In doing so, we strive to overcome multiple barriers related to racism and bias in faculty hiring and will accelerate the development of a more inclusive faculty community.

Eligibility

Target participants will have completed at least two years of postdoctoral training and cannot currently hold an independent faculty position.

Fellows should be actively working on research in an area of research that is broadly applicable to biomedical research.

Timeline

The application period for the Emerging Leader Fellow program will be from January 15-February  25, 2022 (reference letters due by March 4, 2022).

Fellows will be asked to fill out an online CV, provide a diversity statement, abstract describing their research focus, to select departments/institutes at Duke for which their work most closely aligns, and to provide two letters of reference. Fellows will be notified by late March of the application result. Selected fellows will be assigned a current Duke faculty mentor in their research area of interest, and will begin to network with the mentor in April/May.

In May, fellows can visit Duke. During that time, they will present a research talk in a symposium, meet with Duke faculty, and receive mentoring on the academic job search process.

Application

The application will appear here on January 15, 2022, and will remain open until February 25, 2022. 

Applicants should notify reference letters in advance- the deadline to receive reference letters will be March 4, 2022.

We advise applicants to complete the required sections offline first, then upload all sections at once (the application will be an online form and interim progress cannot be saved)

The main application components will be:

  1. A one sentence justification of how your research falls under the topic “biomedical research.”
  2. List of any publications
  3. List of any service positions
  4. Selection of most appropriate Duke departments for your research interests
  5. 500 word overview of past research accomplishments
  6. 500 word overview of your active efforts/lived experiences that embody the ideals of promoting DEIA in the research community
  7. Names/email addresses for two references (current advisor and one other)
  8. 100 word overview of your goals through this mentored experience

Diversity and inclusion resources

Duke’s commitment to diversity and inclusion:

https://provost.duke.edu/initiatives/commitment-to-diversity-and-inclusion

Duke office of institutional equity:

https://oie.duke.edu/diversity-equity-and-inclusion

Duke office of faculty advancement:

https://facultyadvancement.duke.edu/about

Duke IDEALS office:

https://medschool.duke.edu/about-us/diversity-and-inclusion/ideals-office

Duke Women in Science and Engineering:

https://sites.duke.edu/wise/https://corporate.dukehealth.org/people-and-environment

Contact

For questions about the Emerging Leader Program, please contact Don Fox, PhD at don (dot) fox (at) duke (dot) edu

 

 

 

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