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Building Resilience Throughout a Career
How do you develop resilience? This was a question I was asked recently by a mid-career researcher. Not, please note, someone just setting out, but someone who was already well-established. This problem is ubiquitous and does not go away just … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Culture
Tagged long hours, support, team size, trust
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A Holistic CV
Just recently at a dinner for heads of the Cambridge colleges the issue of the toxic culture some research students find themselves in was raised. We all know the issues exist and, in this context, the question was what could … Continue reading
Science and Government, Science in Government
Before pre-election purdah set in, two interesting reports got published, one with more fanfare than the other. The one with more publicity attached was the long-awaited report (Changes and Choices) on options for future international funding by Adrian Smith and … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged Adrian Smith, Areas of Research Interest, Jon Agar, Public Laboratories, RSRE
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Bias in Publishing
You’ll have heard the story about women whingeing about how their proudly-submitted papers got rejected by a premier journal without being sent out to referees. Or that the comments they received from referees were unduly harsh, but a male colleague’s … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Women in Science
Tagged editors, pipeline, Royal Society of Chemistry, success rates, UKRI
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What Do We Know about the Research Ecosystem?
While funders make decisions about where their money goes, and PhD students decide what to study, with whom and where before they go on to wander along the career maze; while publishers decide who to publish and universities around the … Continue reading
