Postdoctoral researchers have become the "lost tribes of the scientific world", who are used, abused and finally lost by universities, MPs heard this week. During a heated Westminster Hall discussion...
Joint PhD programmes that split doctoral studies between different universities may help to improve low outward mobility
University staff may often write letters of recommendation in a very gendered way, warns Dame Athene Donald
Funding, freedom from regulation and staff of the highest calibre are the keys to global success
Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow
An academic described as a 鈥榞iant in theoretical physics鈥 has died
Holly Else explores the emotional, reputational and practical barriers to correcting mistakes
Early career researchers could benefit most from changes to funding structures, says Sven Sewitz, but he is concerned that there simply isn鈥檛 the will to make it happen
Book of the week: Tara Shears enjoys a gossipy tale of the booms and busts involved in collaborative frontier science
Elena Tobolkina draws attention to the childcare issues facing early career academics in many UK cities (鈥淲hich should I choose: my postdoc or my child?鈥, Opinion, 9 June). It is incorrect to assert...
Sir Keith Burnett asks if criticising your country means academics are unpatriotic
It鈥檚 a long way to the top if you want to make it as a PI, but there are many positives on the path to that big break
Teesside University recently announced that all professors who are not in management roles will have to reapply for their jobs (鈥淯niversity tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs鈥, News...
Simon Francis found himself with a PhD in one hand, a toilet brush in the other - and no desire for academic life A year ago, the sense of achievement that my doctorate had once given me had reached...
Anne Forde recently took up a post at Cambridge University as a careers adviser dedicated to supporting postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences, writes Olga Wojtas. Cambridge has about 500...