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Dr Yvonne Couch - The Contradictions & Challenges of the Junior PI
Dr Yvonne Couch narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
Yvonne reflects on the contradiction at the heart of being a junior PI: you are expected to mentor, lead and invest in the people who join your lab, but you also need them to produce so you can publish, win the next grant and stay employed. Yvonne writes about losing an RA she could not afford to keep, the structural way junior labs train people up only to lose them to bigger, better-resourced ones, and her struggle to define what her job actually is when the criteria keep shifting. She lands on her friend Lorraine's eulogy…
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