The perfect brainstorm
Are the institutes of advanced study being set up across the UK simply research hotels where academics can enjoy precious thinking time or evidence of a fundamental shift in cutting-edge research?...
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'We're overworked and underpaid,' PhDs tell research council
Young researchers challenged senior research council figures this week to explain how they were expected to survive job insecurity and insufficient funding, writes Anna Fazackerley. PhD and...
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Scientists want time to talk
Universities should give scientists more time and greater rewards for communicating their subject to the public, this week's British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) festival heard....
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Fred Taylor: A glimpse of my own future, and a girl to boot
A FOR ANDROMEDA Friday, 10pm, BBC Four In 1961, when I was just out of short trousers and preparing to take my science O levels, the BBC first brought A for Andromeda to our TV screens. I knew I...
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Treasure allows hunt into past of the blast
"It was the novelty of the project. I had an idea that there was now enough archive material from the Hubble Space Telescope and other large telescopes to spot these stars before they had exploded,"...
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Summer time and the living is easy...
... but not if you're an academic, says Anna Fazackerley, who finds quite a few on a busman's holiday, hunched over a PC or working hard in the lab. For James Tooley, professor of education at...
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Europe and Asia set to oust US from lead in science and engineering
Brussels, 13 Jul 2005 Fifty years of US global dominance in science and engineering (S&E) may be coming to an end as America's share of graduates in these fields stagnates, while S&E...
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Inside track...
Our occasional column keeps you abreast of developments in the jobs market, from tip-offs and career pointers to who's on the move in your field Chemical attraction A ?17 million investment in new...
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Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
Deadline: 30/11/2000
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Midlife crisis
Despite Simon Inger's despair (Letters, THES, September 19), the real postdoc blues are those who achieve a doctorate in midlife and are discriminated against because of their age. I was an 11-plus...
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Just basic research: A fundamental building block in molecular electronics begins to look like a product at the Niels Bohr Institute - from "talking" electrons to test tube transistors
Brussels, 19 Jul 2006 Thanks to a quantum physics breakthrough, European and American physicists are, electron-by-electron, pushing back the resistance barriers stifling current generation computers...
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Nancy Rothwell
"Ivory towers v corporate boardrooms" was the topic of an open discussion meeting with young scientists that I was involved in at last year's British Association Festival of Science in Dublin. The...
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Steamed up for day at the coalface
Name: Alex Haslam Age: 42 Job: Professor of social and organisational psychology What is your background? I studied psychology at St Andrews University, spent a year at Emory University, Atlanta, US...
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Cancer experts look to China for talent
Leading UK cancer experts flew to China this week to recruit young research stars and make inroads into an academic sector that many UK scientists find bewildering. Scientists from the charity Cancer...
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Science chief quits after PhD scrutiny
Ireland's new science strategy suffered a severe blow this week when the Government's chief science adviser, Barry McSweeney, stood down after the revelation that his PhD was from an unaccredited US...