Changing Course: On Leaving Academic Research

The publication, titled Changing Course: On Leaving Academic Research brings together fifteen interviews with early-career researchers who decided to leave academic research path during their doctorate or in the post-doc phase. The publication is based on the qualitative part of the wider research project, the goal of which is to find out what kind of people have left Czech academic science in the past ten years as well as to analyze reasons why they decided to leave academic career, to ascertain what they do now and how they use knowledge acquired during their academic research career. The book describes working conditions for young scientists in the Czech Republic.