Welcome to the Vitae research staff blog. Articles are invited by all members of research staff, or those interested in their development. Therefore the views expressed are personal and not necessarily Vitae's. Please feel free to post articles on career, professional and personal development, policy developments e.g. the Concordat, feature articles such as interviews, career histories, academics talking about their time as a member of research staff etc. and any useful resources.
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Career choice or dead end? One long-term research scientist's view of the postdoctoral life
In one month, my contract as a senior researcher in a lively Medicinal Chemistry department will end. I like to think I’ve made a suc...
06 November 2009
By Andy Humphrey
Categories: Research, career, development, short term contracts, research staff
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Science in (American) life, and other controversies
I just got back from a conference in Washington DC (the big social studies of science conference, if anyone’s interested). In between...
06 November 2009
By Sarah Davies
Categories: Research
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The SDR - practical or practically useless?
Some time ago, I had the experience of completing my Staff Development Review (SDR) and quite honestly I do not know what to make of the ex...
06 November 2009
By Matthew Salois
Categories: career, development, short term contracts, training, support
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The Crossing
So fate would have it that I have arrived in glorious and sunny (actually, it is sometimes!) England. In the hope of leaving the Land...
04 November 2009
By Andreea Simona Calude
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ERC starting grants
Recently I went to the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants Information and Proposal Writing seminar in Mill Lane, Cambridge. Th...
03 November 2009
By Lindsay McDermott
Categories: Research, career, development
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A matter of engagement
Vitae recently published an analysis report on the aggregated results of the Careers in Research Online Survey (CROS), a survey that was co...
02 November 2009
By Daniel Weekes
Categories: career, development, research staff, training
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Why has it taken so long?
Why has it taken the research institutions and the funding bodies so long to come up with the Concordat?I was aware of many of these proble...
02 November 2009
By George Whale
Categories: Research, career, development, short term contracts, research staff
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On being an older researcher
I first got involved in academic research in my late thirties. I discovered that I enjoyed it and was good at it, so decided to continue. I...
02 November 2009
By George Whale
Categories: Research, career, development, short term contracts, research staff
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Best places to work for post-docs
The life science magazine "The Scientist" publishes an article every year on the best places to work for post-docs (http://www.the-scientis...
29 October 2009
By Matthew Salois
Categories: career, development, mobility, support
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You have to be in it to win it.
I'm just going through the induction to my third university. And yet again I'm amazed at how much I get from the process. There are many di...
29 October 2009
By Angela Mortier
Categories: career
