Generation games 2
How ironic that you have a pro vice-chancellor patronisingly splitting academics into old and cynical worn down husks and young virile and able staff ("Carping is a real senior disservice", February...
How ironic that you have a pro vice-chancellor patronisingly splitting academics into old and cynical worn down husks and young virile and able staff ("Carping is a real senior disservice", February...
The prospectus's weathered cloisters and flawless cheekbones are alluring, admits John Brinnamoor, but a dash of realism mightn't hurt
Name: Anne Cooke Age: 31 Job: Neuroscience research facilitator and communications manager, Bristol University. Education: BA natural sciences (neurophysiology) at Cambridge University and then a PhD...
We should teach PhD students how to balance the conflicting demands of scholarship and dissemination, says Peter Barry
Britain is gripped by an unfounded "moral panic" that it needs to produce more home-grown science graduates to keep the economy competitive, the director of a six-year, £5 million science and society...
The Marie Curie Fellowship Association, set up by the European Union to promote its fellowship scheme for postdoctoral scientists, is starting to play a key political role as a voice for young...
I am in the writing-up stage of my own PhD ("How I stripped away postdoc depression", THES , September 20) and I have become so depressed that I am now watching the QVC shopping channel. What will I...
University bureaucracy is too often built by those who neither know nor care who academics are or what they need, says Tim Birkhead. Researchers and teachers are victims of a burgeoning bureaucracy...
Perhaps university posts shouldn't be for life, but they shouldn't be just for Christmas, either, says Douglas Kell Every year, motor cars are put through MOT tests to assess their fitness for...
Rule changes mean new bioscience researchers will find it easier to set up their own labs, says Melanie Newman Early-career bioscience researchers and lecturers will find it easier to secure funding...
Andrew Armour is very content. The physics lecturer at Nottingham University has a happy home life and a satisfying career, but there is a lot more to it than that. "I have no problem that is likely...
Europe's ambitious targets mean that research students have 'never had it so good'. Mark Rodgers reports. Young academics will benefit from an unprecedented Europe-wide boom in research jobs,...
A postdoctoral researcher who has been hailed as an "awesome" teacher by his students fears that he will be forced to leave higher education because career advancement is based too rigidly on...
Name : Carl Senior Age : 35 J ob : Lecturer in cognitive neuroscience, Aston University. Salary : Not enough. Education/ background : BSc (Hons) in cognitive science from Westminster University, MSc...
I have just run a major programme at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge. Three Iranians, graduate students and postdocs in the US, were unable to attend because of...