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Applause for those who give young talent a hand
Outstanding Support for Early-Careers Researchers Early-career academics will benefit from a new category in this year's Times Higher Awards. The award, sponsored by Research Councils UK in...
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Life in a lab and big-screen illusions
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...
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ELSO creates database of women life scientists
Brussels, 01 Nov 2005 The European Life Scientist Organization (ELSO) has established a 'database of expert women in the life sciences' in order to try to give more visibility to female European...
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'I feel lucky. I do not want to waste my opportunity'
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...
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Scramble for staff
As many US universities stop hiring or cut posts in the downturn, others see a chance to snap up the best and the brightest - particularly those with their own grants. Jon Marcus reports
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Get more winners in grant lottery 1
Tim Birkhead's column "The UK's great £19.5m lottery" (Working Knowledge, July 21) has implications beyond the dishing out of grant funding. It resonates with recent articles and letters about the...
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Early-career cash fillip
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...
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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...
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The long drive to bring early-career researchers in from cold
Preparing researchers for careers in and outside academe has been a longstanding issue for the Government, research councils, universities and employers alike. But the topic came to the fore with the...
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Everyone's a winner
Luring new blood to Finland is broadening horizons for native professors, says Mikko Sams The first academics appointed under a new scheme to attract researchers to Finland's universities and...
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Stars of wonder
From nativity scenes to Apollo 8 and Beagle 2, our eternal fascination with the heavens is never greater than at Christmas, recounts Colin Pillinger
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Research stars like talent by their side
Anna Fazackerley looks at a trend for academics to travel in teams to new posts Most universities cannot lure research stars by offering super-size salaries, not least because it would not look good...
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£25m for language centres
Five centres launched this week will boost the numbers of researchers in languages and area studies. The aim of the £25 million language-based area studies initiative is to produce more academics who...
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I have a question about my conditions of employment as a postdoc on a Natural Environment Research Council project. Is it usual practice to issue contracts on a yearly basis for projects funded for...