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Revise and resubmit or walk away?
Being an academic would be so much easier if only the publication process ended with a finished paper. Trying to find the time to eve...
27 July 2010
By Matthew Salois
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A Sudden Flurry of Activity
Like Matthew, I’ve been conspicuously absent from the blog recently – and I’m now attempting to make up for it with a sud...
27 July 2010
By Elizabeth Dodson
Categories: career, short term contracts, research staff
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Confessions of a union rep
As there was such a good response to my “Confessions of a part-timer” blog post, I thought I’d follow it with a few words...
24 July 2010
By Andy Humphrey
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Why researchers can't research
A health warning: this is a rant, pure and simple, written at a particularly stressful moment and saved until I’d calmed down a bit...
23 July 2010
By Sarah Davies
Categories: Research, career, mobility, short term contracts, research staff
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Frustration with forms
I seem to be spending a lot of my time right now filling in forms. I've done a bit of web work and I've also done questionnaire stu...
23 July 2010
By Hannah Dee
Categories: mobility, short term contracts, CVs
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Back to the grind
Two things have kept me away from this blog for a few weeks: a nice month long holiday (or vacation as I would say) in the US and no intern...
22 July 2010
By Matthew Salois
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Art and Design Practice-Based PHD Supervision
6 month scoping project: practice-based PhD supervision Literature Review Following on from discussions held at the supervisors ...
19 July 2010
By Mark Ingham
Categories: Learning, Research, development, research staff, training
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On how research can change the world
I’ve written before about how research can sometimes feel like a lonely and isolated profession. Even in the best inter-disciplinary,...
19 July 2010
By Andy Humphrey
Categories: Research, role models, Community
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9 Reasons to go to conferences
I’ve just booked my first (and probably my only) conference of the year. Nowhere exotic. Dundee, in fact. But it’s the latest m...
16 July 2010
By Andy Humphrey
Categories: Research, development, research staff, Community
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I fought the law. The law won.
If you’re anything like myself and my colleagues, you have a vague sense that things are changing around fixed term contracts but n...
15 July 2010
By Sarah Davies
Categories: career, development, mobility, short term contracts, research staff
