Four women have made history at Edinburgh University through their appointment as professors in the School of Engineering and Electronics. Rebecca Barthelmie, Rebecca Cheung, Andrea Schaefer and Roya...
Jobs cull is gathering pace Hundreds of academic jobs are being culled across Britain as smaller and middle-ranking universities restructure subject provision to compete for research cash. ...
I have a question about my conditions of employment as a postdoc on a Natural Environment Research Council project. Is it usual practice to issue contracts on a yearly basis for projects funded for...
Susan Deuchars's academic fellowship involves not only research and teaching but also explaining her brand of biological science to primary schoolchildren and even a Beaver Cub group, writes Anthea...
Reform is widely felt to be overdue for French higher education, but its proponents face an entrenched and powerful universities system. Matthew Reisz assesses the appetite for change
RCUK supports researchers fearful of disapproving peers, writes Anthea Lipsett Academics keen to boost their public profiles and publicise their work will benefit from an ?8 million initiative to...
Cambridge leads the field in producing Nobel science laureates, but many of the UK's best scientists have left to pursue work in the US. Matthew Reisz finds out from past winners what tempted them to...
Online, those academics left out of the research assessment tell of pain, politics and bias, writes Zo? Corbyn. Ben Anderson was excluded from the research assessment exercise because neither his...
Profile: Lisa Jardine-Wright astrophysicist, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Lisa Jardine-Wright is on a mission: to change the image of physics, writes Rebecca Attwood. With the number of...
Universities hope signing up big names will inspire new stars, says Tony Tysome. Manchester University is close to recruiting another Nobel laureate, adding to the UK's haul of international research...
Study examines impact of postdocs' mobility on local economies, says Olga Wojtas Two fifths of PhD students move out of the geographical region in which they study after finishing their doctorate, a...
Brussels, Jan 2006 Full text of Document 204/06 Suite of documents 204/06 To: COST Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) Subject: JAF meeting 15/16 February 2006, agenda item 10 - A new COST Instrument...
Elizabeth Barlow is one of the lucky ones, writes Mark Rodgers. Dr Barlow is a research fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Southampton University and she said that she was surprised to...
The Principle of Sound Learning is that the noise of vulgar fame should never trouble the cloistered calm of academic existence," wrote F. M. Cornford a century ago. "Hence, learning is called sound...
Only 20 per cent of PhD students in astronomy will manage to secure jobs in their field, according to a new report. An investigation by the Royal Astronomical Society found that while it is easy for...