Profile

• Organization

  Lightoller LLC; Ronin Institute; IGDORE; School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  
  
• Website

  https://lightoller.org

  
  
• ORCID

  0000-0002-9470-3799

  
  
• Interests

  1. discipline based education research
  2. Equity and Inclusion
  3. graduate education
  4. Mixed Methods research
  5. postdoctoral fellows
  6. science identity
  7. science literacy
  8. student mentoring and training
  9. undergraduate education

  
  
• 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.

  
  
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