Research intelligence: helping postdocs find a voice
New rules will soon require UK institutions to listen to early career researchers. Jack Grove looks at how to engage a group often seen as hard to reach
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Will the funding crisis confine UK research to elite universities?
At a time of increasing financial constraint, jobs are being shed even in UK departments that ride high in the Research Excellence Framework, while time allocations for research are being cut. Can?a...
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Careers intelligence: helping postdocs find jobs
Improving the career prospects of postdocs is now a priority?of UK universities and research funders
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Didier Queloz: ¡®space science is a revolutionary force for good¡¯
Studying the heavens might seem a detached activity but the impact of stargazing has been immense throughout history, explains Nobel laureate
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Konstantin Novoselov: graphene¡¯s future is still bright
Nobel prizewinner reflects on the early hype over graphene, why Brexit damaged British science, and how geopolitics is harming research
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Cambridge ¡®forces of conservatism¡¯ fight postdoc voting plan
Conflict over proposals to grant say in running of university to all 4,000 postdocs, who conduct ¡®bulk¡¯ of research
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Postdocs embittered by lack of career prospects
Only one in seven research assistants progresses to a principal investigator post. Melanie Newman reports. More career support is needed for the "embittered lost tribe" of postdoctoral researchers...
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Leader: Let's cherish our postdoc talents
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...
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Scottish postdocs offered skills training
Life scientist Christine Milburn has returned to her alma mater, Dundee University, as a generic skills training co-ordinator - one of a number of similar posts established by Scotland's universities...
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Postdocs are the 'lost tribes of the science world'
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...
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Postdoc pitching competition funds ¡®wild¡¯ research proposals
Prize money of?€100,000 (?88,000) handed out on basis of scholars¡¯ three-minute spiels
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Call to boycott publisher after sexual misconduct book scrapped
Chapter of Sexual Misconduct in Academia?was previously withdrawn?after academic claimed he was identified
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New grant delays hit Australian researchers
Postdocs risk being ruled ineligible after biding their time to optimise prospects of success
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National Postdoc Appreciation Week: 10 must-read articles for postdocs
For National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we take a look through our archive of advice and information for early career researchers?
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Too many postdocs, not enough research jobs
Fears rise in the US that talented early career scientists are being driven out of the sector because of lack of opportunities