Current Activities
What are we doing now?
Our work is grounded by four core goals:
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Disseminate career and professional development approaches in ways that support adaptation, implementation, and innovation in the graduate/postdoctoral education community.
There is a need for central mechanisms, infrastructure, and incentives to support the dissemination of evidence-based career and professional development approaches. We have developed the pd|hub Collections as a framework for disseminating curated collections of evidence-based educational models that are tailored for teaching professional skills competencies to PhD-level trainees. We are developing new resources to advance mentorship practices in career development via the pd|hub Mentorship Action Collaborative. These approaches include recognition of leaders from the community who have developed effective models, and training and mentoring to support faculty and staff across the country in implementing these approaches at their home organizations.
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Build capacity for research and evaluation to enhance the evidence basis for career and professional development approaches.
Multiple stakeholders have shared a need to build capacity for rigorous evaluation and research in graduate career and professional development. We are bringing together stakeholders to develop resources and infrastructure to support this goal, with first resources emerging via the pd|hub Collections and now the pd|hub Mentorship Action Collaborative.
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Connect stakeholders across diverse networks to leverage expertise and support coordinated action to advance graduate and postdoctoral education.
pd|hub was originated by cross-stakeholder working groups and collaborations, and we continue to maximize synergy and diverse perspectives by bringing interest groups together to effect change. We hosted a Stakeholder Workshop in July 2019 to initiate cross-disciplinary, cross-stakeholder discussions. A group of scientific societies spun out of this workshop and have continued meeting (collaborative projects are included in our News & Events). The pd|hub Coalition of Higher Education Organizations, committed to advancing career and professional development as core components of predoctoral and postdoctoral training, began meeting in 2019 and continues to exchange resources and synergize efforts for national support of career and professional development. The pd|hub Mentorship Action Collaborative brought diverse actors together in a Summit in June 2026 to define systemic factors that impact career-related mentorship, and drive development and testing of new mentorship resources through this dynamic community.
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Advocate for career and professional development to amplify the impact of ongoing efforts and accelerate change.
Advocacy to amplify the impact of ongoing efforts and accelerate change is woven through pd|hub’s activities in the three other goal areas, and we are working on additional resources or mechanisms to support change. In 2025, pd|hub published a resource to empower members of the graduate and postdoctoral education communities in their advocacy for investment in career and professional development. Join us…
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Our activities to-date have been supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, National Institute for General Medical Sciences at NIH, National Science Foundation, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. See our funders and sponsors...
