Raising concerns
Students and postdocs, as well as administrative staff, will always be considered expendable when they conflict with a senior academic (鈥淟ife with an abusive lab boss: one postdoc鈥檚 story鈥, Opinion,...
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Undergraduates as researchers: vital training, or box-ticking?
Students' work on quantum computing demonstrates their role on the front line of discovery
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UK faces biomedical 鈥榖rain drain鈥, study warns
One in three scholars in field 鈥榙eeply concerned鈥 about future research career prospects
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Part-time 鈥榩rivate鈥 professors: can they save niche subjects?
Medieval employment practice used by University of Amsterdam may help to preserve under-threat humanities disciplines, experts say
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Challenge and opportunity in Canada鈥檚 international student boom
Funding restraints mean that hype about double-digit rises in applications may not immediately translate into huge increases in enrolment
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Oxford academics challenge 鈥榗ompulsory retirement鈥 rules
Researchers have triggered another vote over rules they believe to be 鈥榰nlawful鈥 and 鈥榰nfair鈥
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Interview with Isaac Larsen
We discuss the challenges facing early career researchers, parenthood and tearful graduations with the award-winning University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientist
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鈥楩rench brain drain worse than imagined鈥
Lack of opportunities and local hiring practices have stopped many French scientists from returning to their homeland, a new study says
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Postdocs embittered by lack of career prospects
Only one in seven research assistants progresses to a principal investigator post. Melanie Newman reports. More career support is needed for the "embittered lost tribe" of postdoctoral researchers...
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Not everyone at Oxford was ready for my three months as a full-time dad
Alex Holmes was surprised by the reaction of some of his colleagues when he took shared parental leave
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Tossing and turning: what keeps university staff awake?
Academics and professional staff reveal the things that prey on their minds at 2am
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Industry-backed research: beware of dangers, says DCU president
Gearing research too far towards industry goals can lead to short-termist approach, warns Brian MacCraith
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Letter: Postdoc rejection
I am a 39-year-old postdoctoral surrounded by rejection letters for the third year running (Letters, THES , August 17, 24). Based in an English department, my doctoral dissertation was on a...
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Women are too often actively sidelined against their will
In academia, and more widely, women are聽too easily relegated to the 鈥榣ess competent than men鈥 category, writes Dame Athene Donald
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How to be happy: academics advise on what brings joy at work
From neuroscience to philosophy and economics, seven scholars relate what work in their disciplines reveals about the search for #HEhappiness