Gerth Brodal suggested, that we should let the group leaders know when we have our lunch, so that they could try and make their postdoc go to the meeting.
-We agreed, that the committee members will be invited for future lunches, unless the postdocs request that they don’t participate for example due to a specific topic they want to discuss.
-Startup-meeting
Should contain expectations – there should be some pointers under Goals
- What do I expect – why did I hire you
- Longterm legal stuff – how long can you be a PostDoc
- Ressources –
-The committee should also work for benefits for temporary staff, ex physiotherapy
-People were invited to come up with suggestions for the retreat program and send them to Ira
-Topics for upcoming lunch-meetings
- Impact of budget issues
-Ann will talk to Jan Midtgaard about what to put on the web about the possibilities of an pedagogical course that some postdocs have attended.
-Jan Midtgaard talked about an initiative about gathering all PostDocs across ST (I am not sure, that I got what it was actually about – sorry – if it is also unclear to you, we can ask Jan). He has a contact person, however, he does not have time to work on it, and asked if someone else would be interested. No one replied.