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Do You Cope with Office Politics or Leverage them?
In academia, appraisals (call them what you will) get different degrees of serious attention. Equally, people pay more or less heed to them, depending on personal circumstances and whether anything useful is said. However, a recent study shows that, as … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Equality, Science Culture
Tagged confidence, feedback, implicit bias, Impostor syndrome, stereotypes
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In Praise of Technicians
I was a very ham-fisted PhD student. I repeatedly broke a delicate and crucial piece of apparatus during the early months of my research, to the extent that I almost quit the whole endeavour and withdrew from the labs for … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Science Culture
Tagged Gatsby Foundation, Skills White Paper, TALENT, UKRI
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Mentors and Role Models
Five years ago I received a package in the post, with a covering letter from someone I’d never met. Dan Davis, Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester and apparently a fan of this blog, had sent me a … Continue reading
Posted in Careers, Women in Science
Tagged Dan Davis, gender champion, Julia Higgins, Peter Medawar, Sam Edwards
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Just Getting By: Coping and Learning
The pandemic is teaching each of us individually many things. Some may be things we might not want to know about ourselves: how resilient we are; how well we cope with four walls and a screen, perhaps with no other … Continue reading
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Tagged CV, Gaby Hinsliff, pandemic, Winston Churchill, Zoom
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