Welcome to the MSD Working Group on Early Career Development
About
The mission of this Working Group is to support the success of early career researchers in fields related to MultiSector Dynamics. We promote early career professional development and use data-driven and evidence-based methods to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout activities of the MSD Community of Practice. We support the future leaders of the field and encourage the growth of a diverse community of practice, thereby promoting the scientific vision of MSD addressing complex problems across sectors, scales, and human and natural systems.
As the MSD community is formed and begins to grow, this Working Group will seek to expand participation among a diverse group of early career scientists, provide professional development opportunities to graduate students and post-docs, and serve as a contact point for interdisciplinary education activities taking place in the MSD community. We will foster capacity building across institutions and scientific focus areas through hosting professional development workshops and forming a community of practice for MSD researcher-teachers.
Leadership TEAM
Co-chair
Tom Wild
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Co-chair
Julia Szinai
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Professional Development
Coordinator
Ana Dyreson
Michigan Technological University (MTU)
Research Manager
Matthew Binsted
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Communications Officer
Mengqi Zhao
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
ACTIVE MEMBERS
Flannery Dolan
RAND Corporation
Steven Smith
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Xin Zhao
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Naresh Devineni
The City College of New York – CUNY
Stuart Cohen
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Erwan Monier
University of California, Davis
Alfred Wan
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
Activities
Working Group Info Session
Our working group seeks to expand participation among a diverse group of early career scientists, provide professional development opportunities to graduate students and post-docs, and serve as a contact point for interdisciplinary education activities taking place in the MSD community.
Actionable Literature
The summary of actionable literature on professional development and diversity, equity and inclusion for MSD Community of Practice.
Get Involved
The Early Career Development Working Group actively seeks new members from both within and outside the current Multisector Dynamics (MSD) Community of Practice (CoP). The opportunity exists to join a growing team that will help shape the MSD CoP over the next years, enabling it to fill a key ‘translational gap’ identified in MSD Vision Report 2030.
If you are a MSD researcher (or are interested in engaging more with the MSD community going forward) and are passionate about achieving societal impact through science and learning from practitioners/decisionmakers to further improve your science, then please feel free to reach out to us via the following form. Similarly, if you are a practitioner or decisionmaker (e.g. from a US federal, state, or local agency; an international organization; or an expert from an NGO, think-tank, or implementing institution) who may be interested in learning more about MSD research, please also feel free to connect with us.