Early Career Researchers SIG

Who we are:

The Early Career Researchers Special Interest Group (SIG) developed following a conversation that two of the founding members had regarding the need for a support mechanism for early career physical therapy researchers. The two recruited other early career researchers with similar interests and developed a course for CSM 2008. The room at CSM was full of early career researchers including faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and clinicians who were interested in getting involved more formally in research. The response to this first course was so amazing that the group was invited back for a similar course in 2009, 2010, and 2011. Through these courses, it became clear that there was a need for a more formal group and ongoing interactions for those early in their research career. To fulfill this need, a formal proposal for the SIG was submitted to the Academy of Physical Therapy Research and accepted during CSM 2010. The Early Career Researchers SIG was born!

The current SIG officers and founding members are researchers who are early in their careers. We envision that this SIG will attract early career researchers in various settings and backgrounds with the common interest of advancing research in our careers and our profession. 

We are students, clinicians, postdocs, teachers, and researchers from diverse institutions driven to improve our research and connect with others in the early stages of their PT research careers.