Innovative Models for Early Career Researcher Involvement in a Research Institute
Abstract:
Early career researchers (ECRs) are upcoming researchers who aspire to be fully engaged in conducting research. Young professionals who are interested in research usually face challenges, which are discouraging especially in developing countries. However, there are innovative opportunities for enhancing research capacity by individuals and institutions when certain conditions established. The contemporary pattern of research in many countries are ineffective towards improving the knowledge and skills of early career researchers, who may not have access to men torship, collaboration, research skills learning and practice, and grants for research. The aim of this review article, is to enlighten ECRs on the innovative methods that could be explored by early career researchers in order to surmount the challenges in the pathway to involvement in research within a research institute. Innovative models of research capacity, namely, higher education, errand-researcher, stage-observer, reaching-out, reward-delay, soft spot, and government models, which evolved from evidence are explained in this article. To conclude, The ECRs need to take extra steps in order to explore new methods for robust research capacity enhancement.
