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Job security vital for research excellence: Schmidt
Universities must be prepared to take risks, provide greater long-term employment security and back younger researchers if Australia is to successfully nurture the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, a higher education conference has been told.
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Senior researchers that spent more time working on research instead of administration, accounting, extra curricula self-promotion and worrying about nobel prizes and the like might arguably have better chance of winning one given their training and exposure over the longer term. Of course, we have to shudder every time nobel prizes are used as dubious metrics in these debates given not only the controversy of many but the role of serendipity and networking in providing those opportunities for anyone.
My own perhaps naive view is that job security should be for all excellent researchers regardless of age or other discriminatory factor.