-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Simon Davis on Skills, What Skills?
- Anonymous on Choosing Your Image
- Brigitte Nerlich on How Much Does the Scientific Ecosystem Change over Time?
- Athene Donald on The Dangers of Brilliance
- Jane Bernal on The Dangers of Brilliance
Archives
Pages
Meta
Twitter
Monthly Archives: February 2012
What Next and How to Get There
Last week I visited Edinburgh University to participate in their inaugural ‘Innovative Learning Week’. Whilst many universities, though not my own, have study weeks or mid-term breaks, I haven’t come across the idea of teaching a different kind of teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Science Culture
Tagged advice, CV, job interviews, Research Concordat
Comments Off on What Next and How to Get There
Quotas, Good and Bad
I have always felt that the idea of quotas – for increasing the number of women on FTSE100 Boards, for instance – is a bad idea because it implies women need help in order to get themselves into positions of … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Women in Science
Tagged appointment committees, EU, Nicole Dewandre, positive action, positive discrimination
10 Comments
On Geeks and Humanity
There has been a fair amount of self-disclosure on OT blogs in the last couple of weeks. Most recently fellow blogger Cromercrox described his painful battle with depression; over the past couple of weeks on my own blog many people … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Education
Tagged Alice Roberts, critical thinking, dweebs, geeks, George Monbiot, Gerald Warner
11 Comments
Some Scores are More Equal than Others
Having committed to sit on an EPSRC panel for the first time in many years, I had my sights set on a post about the Shared Services Centre of the Research Councils. Clearly this is a popular topic for academics … Continue reading
