Oxford helping with childcare
Elena Tobolkina draws attention to the childcare issues facing early career academics in many UK cities (“Which should I choose: my postdoc or my child?”, Opinion, 9 June). It is incorrect to assert...
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Academic conferencing for dummies
Off to an academic conference? Helena Ledmyr?offers some tricks to getting the most out of attending a scholarly gathering
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Research funding structures should be tailored to the needs of those doing the science
Early career researchers could benefit most from changes to funding structures, says Sven Sewitz, but he is concerned that there simply isn’t the will to make it happen
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Universities must prepare ECRs for life outside academia
Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow
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UCL expenses rules mean staff seen as ‘inherently untrustworthy’
University revises policy after backlash from academics
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Academics worry the Establishment, and it doesn’t make us unpatriotic
Sir Keith Burnett asks if criticising your country means academics are unpatriotic
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Academic advice: where to find it, and how to get the most out of it
We all need good advice – the problem is making sure you know where to find it, and how to accept it, says John Tregoning
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Do academics interfere in their children’s higher education?
Seven scholars relate how they stepped back or stepped in as they saw fit, while one contributor’s daughter describes the flip side
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Academic research spawns recreation of 1960s cinema
Scholars take an audience back to the movie nights of 50 years ago
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What are you reading? – 21 July 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Can joint PhDs get more Brits studying abroad?
Joint PhD programmes that split doctoral studies between different universities may help to improve low outward mobility
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Academics put job offers on ice over Brexit vote
Fears that Britain will leave the EU are deterring academics from taking up posts at UK universities, says Universities UK president Dame Julia Goodfellow
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Stern might change the rules, but the REF game is still a game
Kirsty Rolfe says the portability proposal does nothing to ease the fears and worries of young researchers struggling to start careers
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Interview with Bertil Andersson
We speak to the head of?Nanyang Technological University about the rise of Asia, what it’s like being a European leading a Singaporean institution, and barbecue chicken
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What are you reading? – 16 June 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers