Career impact on relationships ‘worst for junior academics’
THE survey reveals how work pressures shape researchers’ decisions around relationships and family
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The Effective Scientist: A Handy Guide to a Successful Academic Career, by Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Book of the week: this book offers PhDs sound advice, Jennifer Rohn says, but it skirts the improbability of making it
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Are teaching and research mutually exclusive?
Is the 4* researcher who is also a stellar teacher a realistic expectation? 探花视频 surveyed academics to find out. Jack Grove reports
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Are research institutes islands of excellence?
Independent research institutes are hailed as hothouses for cutting-edge science, but they seem to be falling out of fashion. Rachael Pells asks if concentrating research in universities is a better...
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UK re-establishes dominance in ERC advanced grants scheme
Academics at British institutions make one in four successful bids in 2017 funding round, underlining risks of Brexit
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What is it like to take a leadership role at a university?
Senior management has its perks but it also comes with a host of new practical, philosophical, psychological and even physical challenges. Here, seven people who have lived through that fiery baptism...
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Interview with Caroline Dean
The biologist on how a box of tulip bulbs encouraged her to research plants and why?women must expand their comfort zone?
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Fresh anger over UK visa regime as scholar forced to leave Oxford
Home Office decision to decline a visa for postgraduate researcher’s 22-month-old baby sparks anguish at laboratory ‘struggling’ to recruit
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Working in academia should not be damaging
Universities’ demands are taking too great a toll on individuals’ health and happiness, as our first work-life balance survey shows
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Is the academy too close to Silicon Valley?
The entanglement of the university and tech worlds faces increased scrutiny following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Could joint positions in industry and academia offer a workable and ethically...
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Everyday epiphanies: six academics recall turning points in their careers
Determination to make your own way is key to success in academia, but scholars’ research, teaching and even their lives can be transformed by a chance encounter or event
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We need a middle path to data democracy
There must be greater permeability between universities and tech giants if we want to protect data from corporate interests and use it for the public good
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Slashing PhD prices for international students was a masterstroke
New Zealand is reaping many benefits from reducing the cost of a PhD for international students a decade ago, says Brett Berquist
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The big push: are PhDs too tough?
Study suggests?doctorates are now seen as a test of character rather than intellect
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Academics report harassment at political science conference
Eleven per cent of women and 3 per cent of men report inappropriate sexual advances or touching at?American Political Science Association meeting