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career
Life in projects: the pros and cons
Have you had the kind of career that involves jumping from one research project to another? Does it allow you to feel you are building a career, or are you frustrated by constantly having to return to the starting line over and over, or develop skills that don’t have much mainstream value?
12 September 2011
Categories: Learning, Research, career, development, mobility, short term contracts, research staff
International collaboration of research staff associations
Main aim of global association or consortium: · Intercommunication; o share ideas, o&
10 November 2011
Categories: career, development, mobility, short term contracts, research staff, research staff organisation, UKRSA
When the cat is away the mice are at play
As the saying goes... Does this apply to some PIs being away and their groups becoming less focussed in their absence?
01 December 2011
Categories: Research, career, research staff, support, role models
What's love got to do with it?
Why the academy runs on love.
28 November 2011
Categories: Research, career, short term contracts, research staff, mentors
Think tanks: report from an ESRC workshop
Engaged scholars, unabashed lobbyists or useful research mediators? Would you work for a think tank?
11 December 2011
Categories: Research, career, mobility, research staff
Sharing the joy
Who can you share your research successes with? Do your colleagues celebrate your triumphs, or is there too much rivalry there? Do your family and friends outside academia appreciate what it means to you to get a paper published? (I’m not, I’m really not, going to use the term work-life balance in this blog …)
17 December 2011
Categories: Research, career, development, mobility, short term contracts
Addressing your peers and superiors
Do people find it hard because English does not have the formal/informal distinction of addressing people?
14 December 2011
Categories: career, research staff, practical tips
The power and the glory
What causes conflict in the academy?
20 November 2011
Categories: Research, career, research staff
SET for BRITAIN poster competition (deadline 24 Dec 2011)
SET for BRITAIN aims to support early-stage and early-career researchers by enabling them to present and discuss their ground-breaking research to Parliament
21 November 2011
Categories: career, development, research staff
Opportunity in Medical Communications for Thai, Malay, Filipino and Spanish native speakers
Communigen is looking for Thai, Malay, Filipino and Spanish native speakers with fluent written and spoken English and biomedical research experience, to help with systematic literature reviews of a disease epidemiology in Asian and Latin American countries.
21 November 2011
