Career advice: how to transition from PhD student to senior lecturer
Publish before your viva, distinguish opportunities from time-drains and have a strong online profile, says Helen Coleman
Publish before your viva, distinguish opportunities from time-drains and have a strong online profile, says Helen Coleman
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...
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...
Is the 4* researcher who is also a stellar teacher a realistic expectation? Times Higher Education surveyed academics to find out. Jack Grove reports
Book of the week: this book offers PhDs sound advice, Jennifer Rohn says, but it skirts the improbability of making it
The biologist on how a box of tulip bulbs encouraged her to research plants and why women must expand their comfort zone
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...
THE survey reveals how work pressures shape researchers’ decisions around relationships and family
Home Office decision to decline a visa for postgraduate researcher’s 22-month-old baby sparks anguish at laboratory ‘struggling’ to recruit
Academics at British institutions make one in four successful bids in 2017 funding round, underlining risks of Brexit
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
Universities’ demands are taking too great a toll on individuals’ health and happiness, as our first work-life balance survey shows
Study suggests doctorates are now seen as a test of character rather than intellect
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
New Zealand is reaping many benefits from reducing the cost of a PhD for international students a decade ago, says Brett Berquist