Gladstone: Attentive at the top
Slideshow: Top 2008 Institutions
Top 10 International Institutions
Assessing the Postdoc Experience
Postdoctoral fellows used to be called "the lost tribe of science," says Graham Dockray, a physiologist at the University of Liverpool. "They were often neglected and not always appreciated. That's changing." Since 2004, the university's Rising Stars Scheme has recognized particularly promising young researchers with guaranteed academic positions when their postdocs are finished.
That's just one example of how institutions that rank at the top of The Scientist's sixth annual survey - Best Places to Work: Postdocs - have improved the postdoc experience. Liverpool, for example, ranked second. The University of Alberta, ranking seventh among international institutions, formed a university-sanctioned postdoc association in ...
