After 18 months of wrangling, postdoctoral researchers have finally reached an agreement with the University of California over a contract of employment that they hope will set standards for postdocs...
Association’s annual meeting discusses teaching in ‘red’ states and need for domestic research
Early-career researchers can reinvigorate academe, but only if they are given support and job security, argues Paul Wicks Professors profess, lecturers lecture, students study and assistants assist....
Academia often treats leavers as failures, but some of our smartest scholars are starting to see walking away as liberation, writes Inger Mewburn
ߣߣÊÓƵ’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships...
Covering interview travel expenses creates financial hardships for early career academics, says Rachel Yoho
Anyone who has slogged through school and university to gain a PhD and get a job as a postdoctoral researcher has already demonstrated their dedication to academic life. But too many promising...
Early career researchers are the ‘working class of higher education’, writes Elisabeth Julie Vargo Â
Generous leave packages used as a strategy to retain top female researchers in elite institutions, study suggests
When Birmingham University research fellow Silvia Ramos began teaching three years ago, it took her up to four hours to prepare for an hour's tutorial. Now she is a course supervisor for a fourth-...
The Imperial College London stem cell biologist discusses her Italian roots, the search for a cancer cure and dealing with a crowded commute
We were pleased that both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory and RELATE at MIT (Research in Learning, Assessing and Tutoring Effectively) were mentioned in...
Warwick v-c tasked with stopping 'smart kids' turning their backs on science tells Zoe Corbyn he 'has form'
Rogier Creemers advises early career academics to be ruthless and put themselves first to move up the ladder
The bullying and subsequent suicide of a talented Ivy League scientist exposes ugly truths about the cruelty and dysfunction at the heart of academic science