Advocacy and Resources

The BPDA supports and advocates for postdocs, organizes events for postdocs, and serves as a communication platform for the postdoctoral associations in the Greater Boston Area. Advocacy is central to the mission of the BPDA.

Below you will find our recent "Recommendations for Postdoctoral Policies" and outstanding articles that give very useful background to the situation of postdocs and the US academic research system, together with suggestions for urgently needed improvements.

• FLSA Overtime Pay Rule Revision and Postdoc Salaries
  

• Recommendation for Postdoc Minimum Salary
  

• Recommendations for Postdoctoral Policies (BPDA, October 2015)
  

• Recommendations for Postdoctoral Policies and Practices (NPA, 2014)
  

• The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited (National Academies, 2014) - Summary (Kearney Gunsalus)
  

• The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited (National Academies, 2014)
  

• Shaping the Future of Research (Gary McDowell et al., 2015)
  

• NRSA Stipend Levels 2010-2016 (NIH)
  

• Rescuing US Biomedical Research from Its Systemic Flaws (Alberts et al., PNAS, 2014)
  

• How to Exploit Postdocs (Paula Stephan, Bioscience, 2013)
  

• New Postdoc Salary Scale (Stanford University, 2015)
  

• Toward a Sustainable Biomedical Research Enterprise (Pickett et al., PNAS, 2015)
  

• Research Funding in the US (Academics for the Future of Science, 2015)
  

• How Postdocs Benefit from Building a Union (Cain et al., ELIFE 2014)