Career advice: how to survive your first year as a lecturer
Gavin Buckingham offers new lecturers tips on how to thrive in the pressurised first few months in the job
Gavin Buckingham offers new lecturers tips on how to thrive in the pressurised first few months in the job
Extended PhDs would be money well spent in the quest for international competitiveness, says leading physicist
Higher education institutions too slow to adapt what and how they teach, rival says
Which is the better option when it comes to running academic journals – the professional editor or the academic one? Rachael Pells analyses the pros and cons of each
Left with an inconclusive residency application, Alexandra Bulat asks when the government will end the double act of praising EU students while leaving their futures in the UK uncertain
Ministers reassure after funding agencies’ warnings of ‘serious impact’ for Brazilian research from cuts, but others see false promises ahead of election
Successful partnerships with industry players hinge on location and circumstances, while funding is only part of the picture, says Sarah Wild
From the largest strike in the history of UK higher education, to the US ‘academic precariat’ looking to unionise to improve their conditions, Jack Grove assesses the changing influence of workers’...
Women are less likely to become principal investigators than equally qualified male scientists, Yale University researchers claim
New centre could have £200 million price tag and be funded by wealthy benefactor
It’s still early days for the £650 million biomedical research centre, but its director believes it is showing signs of fulfilling its promise
Book of the week: A ‘thought biography’ reveals elements that make for success in science, Rivka Isaacson finds
Cat Zero, a novel by Jennifer Rohn, an infectious disease researcher, shines light on the backbiting and tensions of lab life as an unlikely team of scientists work to save the cats of Kent from a...
THE's Asia-Pacific editor John Ross ponders the pluses of a slow-cooked doctorate
Postdoc Boukje Cnossen shares some tips to navigate the subtle cultural differences between European countries that can loom large when you’re looking for a job