The seven deadly sins of the academy
Matthew Reisz and our seven guest contributors lift the lid on the rampant wickedness troubling the sanctity of our hallowed universities
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£8m pot to coax wary publicists
RCUK supports researchers fearful of disapproving peers, writes Anthea Lipsett Academics keen to boost their public profiles and publicise their work will benefit from an £8 million initiative to...
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Scientists want time to talk
Universities should give scientists more time and greater rewards for communicating their subject to the public, this week's British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) festival heard....
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Blue-sky thinking that led to an astronomical ambition
Profile: Lisa Jardine-Wright astrophysicist, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Lisa Jardine-Wright is on a mission: to change the image of physics, writes Rebecca Attwood. With the number of...
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Skies stay dark for astronomypostdocs
Only 20 per cent of PhD students in astronomy will manage to secure jobs in their field, according to a new report. An investigation by the Royal Astronomical Society found that while it is easy for...
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Regions lose skills as PhDs follow jobs
Study examines impact of postdocs' mobility on local economies, says Olga Wojtas Two fifths of PhD students move out of the geographical region in which they study after finishing their doctorate, a...
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Female quartet engineer big success at Edinburgh
Four women have made history at Edinburgh University through their appointment as professors in the School of Engineering and Electronics. Rebecca Barthelmie, Rebecca Cheung, Andrea Schaefer and Roya...
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There's the rub...
A postgraduate student, a postdoc and a professor find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a genie emerges in a puff of smoke. The genie says: "I usually grant only three wishes, so I'll give each...
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Rift over pay threatens expansion
Conflicting priorities within Whitehall in the run-up to the government's strategic paper on higher education are threatening to produce a logjam in academic salaries that could hamper ministers'...
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'We're overworked and underpaid,' PhDs tell research council
Young researchers challenged senior research council figures this week to explain how they were expected to survive job insecurity and insufficient funding, writes Anna Fazackerley. PhD and...
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Life for PhD students is 'on the up'
Elizabeth Barlow is one of the lucky ones, writes Mark Rodgers. Dr Barlow is a research fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Southampton University and she said that she was surprised to...
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Popular beat may drown out genius
The 'audit society' rewards those scientists who dance to its tune, says Peter Lawrence. Too busy working? Two left feet? Too bad It is fun to imagine songwriters being assessed as scientists are...
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Research council demands that fellows spread the word
Susan Deuchars's academic fellowship involves not only research and teaching but also explaining her brand of biological science to primary schoolchildren and even a Beaver Cub group, writes Anthea...
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UK boosts its tally of Nobel laureates
Universities hope signing up big names will inspire new stars, says Tony Tysome. Manchester University is close to recruiting another Nobel laureate, adding to the UK's haul of international research...
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'What a waste': 2008's rejects vent dismay
Online, those academics left out of the research assessment tell of pain, politics and bias, writes Zoë Corbyn. Ben Anderson was excluded from the research assessment exercise because neither his...