Workforce Trends: The Future of Microbial Sciences
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Workforce Trends: The Future of Microbial Sciences
June 9, 2023
In an effort to better understand the microbiology workforce, ASM commissioned a new study, “Workforce Trends: The Future of Microbial Sciences,” providing the most current look at the demographic makeup, employment patterns and occupations of the microbiology discipline.
Led by Donna Ginther, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Policy and Social Research (IPSR) at the University of Kansas—one of the top labor economists specializing in the study of the scientific workforce—and her colleagues at the IPSR, this comprehensive study explores key trends in education, employment, occupations, earnings and job satisfaction. This report is the newest, and perhaps first, statistical portrait capturing those with microbiology degrees and those working
