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Post by kangaroo on Jul 27, 2011 9:31:41 GMT -5
I'm curious -given some of the job postings - about the extent to which people are looking at other, related, markets: urban studies, women's studies, Af-Am studies, environmental studies, policy schools, business schools, public health schools, even anthropology or political science jobs......
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Post by yep on Jul 27, 2011 10:57:35 GMT -5
Public policy and business schools. The latter might be harder, but salaries are definitely better.
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Post by Dr0z on Jul 27, 2011 20:24:15 GMT -5
I'm a medical sociologist who is in a postdoc in a medical school.
So I'm definitely looking in public health/health sciences departments.
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Post by showmethemoney on Aug 26, 2011 19:29:12 GMT -5
There are definitely opportunities outside soc depts for sociologists. The upside to public health schools is that you can make significantly more money and teach a lot less. However, these are mostly soft money gigs. You will spend the better part of your time writing grant proposals and praying they get funded. Most will expect you to cover anywhere from 40-80% of your salary. So you will live and die by the R01. Given the budget situation at NIH and the low paylines that is a dicey proposition even for the very best.
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Post by Dr0z on Aug 30, 2011 0:13:47 GMT -5
I agree.
But I would suggest people consider undregraduate public health/allied health programs.
Usually more teaching, but sometimes hard money.
Since my last post I moved from a medical school to this kind of dept as non-tt but the tt folks seem to be more hard money than ive seen in graduate public health/medical school/nursing.
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