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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
Am I the only person at work this week?
Does your university, department or lab shut up shop the week between Christmas Day and New Years Day?
30 December 2011
Categories: Research, research staff
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
Rubbish Christmas Cards
'Tis the season for banal messages from impersonal organisations. Bah, humbug!
30 December 2011
Categories: Research, research staff
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
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
Does being a researcher make me more cynical?
... or did being cynical make a career in research more appealing?
01 November 2011
Categories: research staff, training
