Northeastern’s redrawn doctorate seeks to turbocharge diversity
University hopes to build more diverse faculty by enriching PhD process with skills typically acquired in prolonged postdoc slog
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Talking Leadership 44: Alice Gast on championing ‘risk-taking’ foreign students
Compelling stories of how foreign-born founders drive economic prosperity are more likely to convince policymakers about the need to embrace overseas students, says Alice Gast, who recently stepped...
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External funding is a means, not an end. So why must everyone seek it?
Universities should decide their funding needs based on their goals in teaching, research and outreach, say Nicolai Foss, Peter Klein and Phillip Nell Â
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Five universities join forces to offer ‘wrap-around’ support to refugees
Institutions team up to offer scholarships as well as practical resettlement help targeting those affected by the conflict in Ukraine
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Fears for UK research as EU postdoc applications dry up
Senior scientists say severe shortage of junior scientists from European Union threatens quality of UK research
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Pandemic doctoral starters ‘need more than extensions’
Royal Netherlands Academy says extra funding and time cannot ‘truly compensate’ those who began their research careers in lockdown
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No one is immune
Precarity is a debilitating condition that often proves fatal to research careers. And it affects even the most lauded research groups
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Is this the beginning of the end of early career precarity?
Even before Covid led to so many job losses among casual and fixed-term academic staff, mass insecurity was increasingly being recognised as a blight on the sector. But is there any realistic...
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UK mathematical sciences need their missing millions
If the balance of the £300 million promised by the UK government is not delivered, a broad swathe of research will suffer, says Ulrike Tillmann
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I’ve finally realised impact is my duty – and public involvement is the key
There is always more to a research question than the underpinning science. So work with the people you are studying, says Nicola Ray
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Merge or collaborate? EU universities scheme ‘needs two tracks’
Expert says initiative should make different offers to networks that want to integrate into a single institution or just work together
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Germany’s short-term fix on temporary contracts wearing off
Experts say fleeting effect of amending Germany’s fixed-term contract law shows need for wider career reforms
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Talking leadership 30: Paul Pauli on academia in Germany v the UK
The president of the University of Würzburg discusses the differences between the two systems, why he’s joined a European university alliance and the benefits of interdisciplinary working
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Academics ‘not best’ to advise postdocs on leaving academia
Event hears calls for improved careers services in universities to help steer PhD students and postdocs on opportunities
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Mid-career female researchers ‘need bespoke research grants’
UK professional bodies for mathematicians call for specialist funding to help female senior lecturers whose research careers are blown off course