As funding stagnates, scientists warn Canada could lose a generation of talent
Sivani Baskaran spent years doing research toward her PhD at the University of Toronto. The work demanded high levels of commitment and long hours – but the paltry salary left her struggling to cover her basic expenses.
The concern among many scientists is that this scenario is becoming more common. As funding for graduate students, postdocs and research-granting councils stagnates, Canada could lose a generation of talent, they warn. And the risk is that such a brain drain wouldn’t just be the result of students leaving the country – but scientific research altogether.
The government is considering the panel’s recommendations, said a spokesperson for Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, adding that since 2016 OttawaThe grad students have theMaydianne Andrade, a biologist at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus and president of the Canadian Black Scientists Network, said the graduate scholarship she received more than 20 years ago, roughly $21,000, was worth about the same as some of the federal awards available...
only about $10,000. Recently she decided to get out of research once her PhD is complete, because the finances are too precarious. Comparing the level of funding grad students and postdocs receive in Canada with other countries can be complicated as tuition, living costs and work arrangements differ. But U.S. National Institutes of Health postdoc stipends in 2020 began at nearly US$53,000 in the first year, the equivalent of about $70,000 in Canada.
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