Topic of the issue: Postdoc – From Invisible Scholar to a Change Driver

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• Postdoc as a Modern Trend in the Development of Academic Society
  What is a Postdoc? Drivers, Purposes, Experiences and Impacts

  Lynn McAlpine

  Research Community Support as a Core Resource for a Positive Postdoc Experience

  Kirsi Pyhältö
• Those Who Succeed and Those Who are Struggling: Postdoc Management Challenges
  The Postdoc: Lessons Learned and Global Implications from a US Perspective

  Karri A. Holley
  Some Observations on the Postdoctoral Experience at University College Dublin (UCD, Ireland)

  Conor Galvin
  A Brief Historical Analysis of the Postdoctoral System in Mainland China

  Jin Jin, Hugo Horta
  Providing the Research System with Sufficient Competent Early-career Researchers:the System of Postdoctoral Programs in China

  Chuanyi Wang, Lili Yang
  The Emergence of Postdoctoral Studies in Kazakhstan

  Aliya Kuzhabekova
  Russian Postdocs as a New Tool for Academic Development: an HSE University Perspective

  Yulia Falkovich, Niyaz Gabdrakhmanov, Anna Pravdyuk
  An Unrealized Postdoctoral Program: the Experience of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

  Victoria Lobatyuk
• The Life after Postdoc: Academic and Non-academic Trajectories
  Postdocs in Russia: Possible Steps

  Svetlana Tvorogova
  Postdoc Experiences of Belarusian Scholars Abroad: Switching from Academicto Non-academic Employment

  Svetlana Poleschuk
  A Non-academic Career for Russian Postdocs in the Context of the National Project “Science”

  Anastasia Chasovnikova
• The Reading List

  Postdoctoral Apprenticeship Research: Past, Present and Future

  Denis Ananin, Anna Pravdyuk