Careers

Focusing on your own priorities makes it possible to enjoy an easier and more productive working life, says Mark Reed

After this year’s laureates were announced, 50 winners share the secrets of their success

Pragya Agarwal considers what aspiring doctoral students can do to make their application stand out from the rest

Publishing is part of the academic game, says Mike Smith, so you’d better get good at it 

Quiet acceptance of accent discrimination damages efforts to make classrooms more inclusive, says Katerina Loukopoulou

Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing – and dealing with negative peer reviews

Adam Szetela has been speaking to some high profile scholars about how to write well, and this is what he found out

Studies from industry and academia show there are significant benefits to incentivising supportive behaviour, says Theo Gilbert

Salary transparency can promote equality but also tends to foment jealousy and strife among academic staff, as Adrian Furnham has seen at first hand

Many researchers also ‘harbour unrealistic expectations’ about academic careers

Leru says that commission’s focus should be on improving scholars’ employment prospects

Pragya Agarwal explains how lecturers can support first-year students as they make the transition to the self-directed learning required at university

US physician also tells summit that, while governments change, ‘science goes on’

Metric on self-referencing could provide ‘truer’ citation data, say researchers

Spreading the word on social media about research can help academics get ahead, but is it too much of a distraction, asks Brooke Erin Duffy

Andrew Southgate and Rob Turner offer some tips on organising a study-abroad trip following a visit to a Japanese university

Many UK doctoral students view professional development as a ‘distraction’ or a ‘waste of time’, says study

Emily McIntosh and David Grey offer advice on rediscovering a ‘lost art’

Without more research funding, senior Indonesian academics are unlikely to be able to meet new government-imposed publication standards, says Martin Surya Mulyadi

Discipline at ‘critical point’ in UK as universities struggle to replace retiring staff, says report led by Newcastle vice-chancellor

How can higher education prepare students for jobs that do not even exist yet? asks Christina Slade

Treatment of engineering scholars seen as sign of hostile ‘prove it again’ attitude

International professors on short stays will no longer need a work permit

In our annual survey of vice-chancellors’ pay, which reveals double-digit hikes for some and more modest rises for others, Simon Baker examines how remuneration committees make their decisions amid calls for greater transparency over the ‘arbitrary’ nature of salary increases

Changing academic environment prompts rethink of globally influential employment support guidelines 

Endless bureaucratic reorganisations in universities are increasing stress levels of academics, says Gail Kinman

Alex Holmes was surprised by the reaction of some of his colleagues when he took shared parental leave

Sector-wide initiative led by Science Council seeks to address ‘overlooked’ part of academic workforce

There is no evidence that mandatory retirement achieves its aims, argues Paul Ewart 

Researchers have triggered another vote over rules they believe to be ‘unlawful’ and ‘unfair’

Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe

Terry Dray explains what other institutions can learn from Liverpool John Moores University’s recent review of career development services

Seven academic leaders share their experiences at the departmental helm along with their tips on how to squeeze the best out of sceptical staff and meagre budgets – and still find time for research

Augmented reality and game-based learning among the innovations set to transform higher education

US study suggests women perform more ‘service’ work in universities

What should have been a straightforward application for leave to remain in the UK turned into a Kafkaesque nightmare for University of St Andrews’ lecturer Emily Michelson, whose research trip to Italy proved too much for visa administrators to handle

Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators

Summarising your journal paper effectively helps to ensure that it reaches the right audience

The suicide of a student on campus made Steven A. Miller realise that his students didn’t need a philosophy class to remind them of their impending deaths 

Applying for an academic job has become such a disengaged process that it is difficult to bring anything to your application to make it stand out, says John Brinnamoor

Civil servant status and national pay scales mean senior academics earn less than peers elsewhere

Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science, says Musa al-Gharbi

With academics reluctant to take sick leave, universities must become more aware of the dangers of ‘presenteeism’, says Gail Kinman

US researcher claims that white academics are given more time to study and write

Researcher warns that anti-immigrant sentiment could affect pipeline of academic talent

Steve Keen laments loss of ‘time and freedom’ for universities’ ‘original thinkers’

Comments are a further sign that European institutions are gearing up to poach UK-based researchers

The ‘indigenisation’ of Canada’s academy has had many positives, but some scholars are uneasy about universities’ reluctance to challenge native beliefs about the world, say Rodney Clifton and Gabor Csepregi

Cramming study into the shortest possible time will impoverish the student experience and drive an even greater wedge between research-enabled permanent staff and the growing underclass of flexible teaching staff, says Tom Cutterham

Elsevier report highlights countries and subjects where gender equality is improving the most

To mark International Women’s Day, academics and administrators reflect on leadership challenges

Warwick seminar hears German and Swiss universities lead the way on support for partners

Analysis of deans shows women are less likely to be rehired than men

Duke University’s Valerie Ashby says institutions must be more ‘intentional’ about finding ethnic minority PhD candidates

Discriminating in hiring practice against particular intellectual perspectives is no less sinister than discriminating against particular political persuasions, says Glenn Geher

Top university administrators explain how to get the right person when hiring

Research finds that working overseas can boost PhD holders’ salaries 

Latest Hesa data throw spotlight on disciplines most at risk from flight of EU talent from UK