Research intelligence: big ideas to improve research culture
Scientific leaders and politicians have embraced calls to reduce the stress and precarity faced by researchers. Jack Grove examines some radical proposals
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Choosing a PhD lab: should we fix the advice or fix the system?
Talking to lab members is not very revealing when they are habituated into an abusive culture, says Joana Vieira
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Will graphic novels ever be taken seriously as research outputs?
Recent examples explore everything from radical vaudeville to the legacy of slavery
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Three hard truths I learned before moving to a non-academic career
Your new manager likely doesn’t have a PhD, and she’s higher on the food chain because experience is more valued than a doctorate, says Janelle Ward
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MEP backs European careers framework to tackle research precarity
Webinar hears that postdocs are being ‘deprofessionalised’ and encouraged to win grants on behalf of principal investigators
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End huge obstacles to student mobility within MENA, summit told
THE event hears benefits of emulating Bologna Process would be huge, but efforts might need to start small
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The ‘Hidden REF’ will highlight research’s unacknowledged heroes
The focus of research evaluation on papers and grants excludes far too many vital contributions. We must change that, says Simon Hettrick
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Is there a catch to the UK’s £22 billion science spending pledge?
Recent cuts and scares have cast doubt on ministers’ commitment to harnessing science in pursuit of a levelled-up, post-Brexit innovation economy. Questions also remain about how funding should be...
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If you’re a jobseeker, or might become one, you need LinkedIn
Academics are often unusual jobseekers with specific skills − LinkedIn allows you to take control of your professional self-narrative, says Stacy Hartman
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Oxford career oasis gives scholars time to escape tunnel vision
At the Future of Humanity Institute, early career researchers are given two years to work out which questions are really worth asking
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Has the pandemic changed research culture – and is it for the better?
Covid-19 has prompted an explosion in preprints but has curtailed networking and underlined the extra pressures on women and junior academics. Simon Baker asks whether the pandemic era is a dark blip...
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ETH apologises for postdoc job advert demanding ‘Nature paper’
Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in
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Rapid rise in professors aged over 65 sparks opportunities debate
Nearly half of all professors in the UK are now aged 55 or over
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Minority PhDs ‘have higher aspirations in diverse departments’
Research finds that having just one scholar from an underrepresented group has a positive impact on academic goals of doctoral students in the same department
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Nobel laureate: how (not) to apply for a postdoc position
Martin Chalfie argues that young scientists who ‘play the game’ of publishing in selective journals are less likely to win permanent posts