Challenges and opportunities for early-career Teaching-Focussed academics in the biosciences

• DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.6227.1
• Publication Date: 2015-03-24T15:03:19Z
• Authors: Katharine Hubbard; Sarah Gretton; Katherine Jones; Lucy Tallents
• Keywords: 4. Education; 05 social sciences; 028; Opinion Article; 0503 education

Twenty-seven percent of academics in UK Higher Education (HE) are Teaching-Focussed positions, making major contributions to undergraduate programmes an era high student expectations when it comes teaching quality. However, institutional support for is often limited, both terms peer networking and opportunities career development. As four early-career stage working a variety institutions, we explore what motivated our choices make primary academic activity, the challenges that have faced doing so. In addition highlighting need universities fully recognise achievements staff, discuss role various biosciences learned societies supporting academics. We identify there come together pool their expertise this area. The fragmented nature community means clear sources national needed order best enable next generation bioscience educators reach full potential.