Hi Portia,

 

I am writing because you are a graduate student or a postdoc at a biomedical / life sciences lab at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. My name is Ulkar and I'm part of a team of social scientists and economists who want to find out what it means for a biomedical research lab to be “well managed” or to have a supportive culture for trainees. We were drawn to spend time on this work because we suspect — based on anecdotes and evidence from other sectors of the economy — that improvements in lab management practices and lab culture have the potential to unlock a tremendous amount of scientific energy, make the experience of graduate students and postdocs more rewarding, and set them up for success in the future when they will be in charge of their own labs. 

  

If your lab has 2 people or more beyond the PI, we invite you to participate in our study. Your contribution would only involve a phone interview lasting about 1-1.5 hours, and you can withdraw at any point. Please note that labs engaged in research involving human subjects are not eligible for this opportunity. We are also not including labs engaged in field work, such as ecology labs, at this time.

 

All interviews will be confidential, and we will compensate you for your time with $75. 

 

To sign up for an interview, please pick a time here: https://calendly.com/slmp-book/interview

 

To learn more about the study, please visit www.labsmanagement.org, and if you have any questions just let me know. We hope you will participate! 

 

Best wishes, 

Ulkar Aghayeva 

Research Associate 

Department of Economics 

Dartmouth College 

 

On behalf of Scientific Labs Management Project Team

www.labsmanagement.org

 

PS:  If you know anyone at other labs in the United States who might be interested in participating, please feel free to share this invitation as well as the following link for them to express interest: www.labsmanagement.org/signup.

 

Please note you are receiving this email because you were listed as a lab member on your lab’s website within the past year. If you are no longer in this lab, apologies and please disregard this invitation. If you have moved to another lab and would like to participate, please let us know by replying to this email.