Members

Gary McDowell

  • Extended Profile
  • Organization
    Lightoller LLC; Ronin Institute; IGDORE; School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Website
    https://lightoller.org
  • ORCID
    0000-0002-9470-3799
  • Biography
    Gary McDowell is the founder of Lightoller LLC, a consultancy providing expertise on early career researchers, with the goal of working with organizations to help future generations of researchers reach their potential. Gary helped organize a symposium in Boston in 2014 to give a voice to early career researchers, and was lead author on the resulting paper, “Shaping the Future of Research: a perspective from junior scientists”. He co-founded the nonprofit organization Future of Research in 2016 and began working full-time advocating for junior researchers. Since 2019 he has worked as a consultant focusing on research on how to better support future generations of researchers, and to provide early career researchers with tools and strategies to effect change.