Academia/professors please explain external funding

[Anonymous]

I have a professional career in the social sciences and have taught as an adjunct previously. I'd like to transition to academia. I enjoy research and working with students. What I don't understand is how funding works. Departments expect incoming professors to have funding? How do I get funding?

[Anonymous]

Grants from the government and other outside sources. Good luck with that now.

[Anonymous]

But you can’t get that before you apply right?

[Anonymous]

Major universities have lobbyists, they fight for federal funding, which is limited. Most lobbyists are fighting for just things, I wish people would think about that before they consciously disparage lobbyists.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't think most social science professors would have grants (external funding). They'd more be expected to publish in high impact journals. Which you don't need a lot of funding for. That's more STEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a professional career in the social sciences and have taught as an adjunct previously. I'd like to transition to academia. I enjoy research and working with students. What I don't understand is how funding works. Departments expect incoming professors to have funding? How do I get funding?

It means you have an existing grant or award that you bring with you to your university.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a professional career in the social sciences and have taught as an adjunct previously. I'd like to transition to academia. I enjoy research and working with students. What I don't understand is how funding works. Departments expect incoming professors to have funding? How do I get funding?

Don’t take this too harshly but if you’re a GS15 or SES, it’s unlikely you’d get a TT job before all of this went down and now the chances are near zero, unless you’re at a policy school. You’re probably a stale PhD from a hiring committees perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't think most social science professors would have grants (external funding). They'd more be expected to publish in high impact journals. Which you don't need a lot of funding for. That's more STEM.

In psychology it's expected you'll have external funding like a k award to start and eventually r01s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a professional career in the social sciences and have taught as an adjunct previously. I'd like to transition to academia. I enjoy research and working with students. What I don't understand is how funding works. Departments expect incoming professors to have funding? How do I get funding?

Don’t take this too harshly but if you’re a GS15 or SES, it’s unlikely you’d get a TT job before all of this went down and now the chances are near zero, unless you’re at a policy school. You’re probably a stale PhD from a hiring committees perspective.

I am sorry but +1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a professional career in the social sciences and have taught as an adjunct previously. I'd like to transition to academia. I enjoy research and working with students. What I don't understand is how funding works. Departments expect incoming professors to have funding? How do I get funding?

Don’t take this too harshly but if you’re a GS15 or SES, it’s unlikely you’d get a TT job before all of this went down and now the chances are near zero, unless you’re at a policy school. You’re probably a stale PhD from a hiring committees perspective.

I am sorry but +1.

What is a stale PhD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a professional career in the social sciences and have taught as an adjunct previously. I'd like to transition to academia. I enjoy research and working with students. What I don't understand is how funding works. Departments expect incoming professors to have funding? How do I get funding?

It means you have an existing grant or award that you bring with you to your university.

Where do you get one of those? I do t get it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a professional career in the social sciences and have taught as an adjunct previously. I'd like to transition to academia. I enjoy research and working with students. What I don't understand is how funding works. Departments expect incoming professors to have funding? How do I get funding?

Don’t take this too harshly but if you’re a GS15 or SES, it’s unlikely you’d get a TT job before all of this went down and now the chances are near zero, unless you’re at a policy school. You’re probably a stale PhD from a hiring committees perspective.

I am sorry but +1.

What is a stale PhD?

You got it over 5 years ago and haven’t published in top 5 journals since.

[Anonymous]

Oh. Ive been publishing. Not in top 5 but I have a lot of publications. Am I stale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh. Ive been publishing. Not in top 5 but I have a lot of publications. Am I stale?

Do you have publications in the top peer reviewed academic journals in your field? If you did, you wouldn't be asking DCUM about how to get a job in academia.

If you're a Washingtonian with a few opeds or Slate articles to your name, you may be able to pick up a course as an adjunct here or there, but as you probably already know there's no real money in that. There are lots of administrative jobs at universities, but even those will be tough to get as an outsider.

Some of the DC schools have positions for exiting USG officials, but any of those opportunities were claimed by November 6th. Most of them are short term any way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh. Ive been publishing. Not in top 5 but I have a lot of publications. Am I stale?

Do you have publications in the top peer reviewed academic journals in your field? If you did, you wouldn't be asking DCUM about how to get a job in academia.

If you're a Washingtonian with a few opeds or Slate articles to your name, you may be able to pick up a course as an adjunct here or there, but as you probably already know there's no real money in that. There are lots of administrative jobs at universities, but even those will be tough to get as an outsider.

Some of the DC schools have positions for exiting USG officials, but any of those opportunities were claimed by November 6th. Most of them are short term any way.

I do, in fact, have publications in peer reviewed academic journals. Did you think I meant I'd been posting on DCUM?