Malik, A (2020) A good career start can open doors: the plusses and minuses of an international graduate student program—a student’s perspective. Medical Microbiology and Immunology, 209 (3). pp. 225-227. ISSN 0300-8584
Abstract
There are many Ph.D. programs from various funding agencies that provide excellent starts to a scientific career. Multinational Ph.D. positions attract students because they provide students with much-required exposure to the international scientific community at an early stage of the career. For this reason, multinational Ph.D. positions can be considered as a better career opportunity over Ph.D. positions confined to a single country. In addition, these multidisciplinary research programs connect different organizations to deal with the problems of global interest. One of these multi-disciplinary research programs is the viral and bacterial adhesion network training-innovative training network (ViBrANT). ViBrANT is a multifaceted platform that develops the required skillsets in young researchers and thereby also contributes to building a multidisciplinary research community. Is this the only parameter to be considered or are there other factors that can also stimulate one’s career development? In this perspective article, I will discuss the key reasons why I chose a multinational Ph.D. program along with the merits of being part of ViBrANT. I also discuss the challenges I faced while moving from India to the United Kingdom.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Culture shock; Increasing cases of bacterial diseases; International Ph.D. positions; Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions | Horizon 2020—European Commission; Multidisciplinary research; Multidrug resistance, new diagnostic tools, good career start; Multinational Ph.D. program; Settling into a new country; ViBrANT |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biomedical Sciences (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2020 14:38 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:11 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s00430-020-00661-7 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:157904 |
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