postdoctorate
/pəʊs(t)ˈdɒkt(ə)rət
/adjective
Relating to or denoting research undertaken after the completion of doctoral research: he is currently seeking a postdoctorate position...
- The grants may also allow Canada to hold on to the talent grown and developed here, with some of the money going to graduate and post-doctorate research fellows.
- He is now a post-doctorate research fellow at Edinburgh University but his potential for this subsequent academic achievement was not apparent at primary school.
- He wrote a post-doctorate dissertation on "Belgian Education Policy in the Congo 1945-1960", which contains a number of sources in French in its bibliography.
noun
1A period of research undertaken after the completion of doctoral research: a two-year postdoctorate on sensory biology...
- He completed a post-doctorate at Dallas and then joined Kellogg in 1985, switching to business and marketing.
- By 1963, having finished his doctorate in biochemistry and post-doctorate at the Lister Institute, he was invited to join the prestigious Protein Chemistry Department at the Rowett Research Institute.
- She went on to do her post-doctorate in philosophy studying at both Princeton University and the University of St Andrew's in Scotland.
2A person engaged in postdoctorate research: the team will be composed of two scientists and two postdoctorates...
- Post-doctorates are excellent contributors to a unit's research program.
- Over a period of two years, a post-doctorate worked full time, with part time assistance from the course instructor and lab coordinator, to develop, edit, and complete the 11 modules.
- He left the field when he moved to British Columbia, Canada, as a postdoctorate in 1966.