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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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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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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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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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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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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Ask the panel
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...
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It's up to us to keep the sharks out of our pool
Universities have to fight to eradicate the bogus colleges that harm the UK's reputation, says Gerald Vinten. Rather like in the movie Jaws , it seems that one never knows what is lurking in the...
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JAF Meeting 15/16 February 2006, Agenda Item 10 - a New COST Instrument: Young Investigators Network (YIN) (link)
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 204/06 Suite of documents 204/06 To: COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) Subject: JAF meeting 15/16 February 2006, agenda item 10 - A new COST Instrument...
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Footnotes and fancy-free
We should teach PhD students how to balance the conflicting demands of scholarship and dissemination, says Peter Barry