Careers
Headhunters are far from lazy and harmful, says Kim Frost, who uses them all the time
Walking supervision sessions around Birmingham and pub-based academic chats have won praise from PhD candidates
Competition for postdoctoral fellowships is fierce, so your application needs to stand out as realistic, coherent and compelling. Here, five Stanford University scientists reveal 10 tips from their own experiences when attempting to secure a place
Lacking insight and seeking only enrichment, search firms deliver obvious, uninspiring candidates, argues a business school professor
‘Too early’ to say if employer and employee contributions will have to be increased again, says chief executive
Effectiveness and impact of one-day strikes targeted at university graduation and open days also questioned by expert and employers
Sites like Patreon and Kickstarter allow backers to fund independent scholars, but for now, the sums are small
Progressing from junior faculty to tenured professor is extremely difficult, but following ‘action-oriented’ competencies can help, research suggests
Eight years ago, Carol Hay and John Kaag took the same position at the same university, and their lives since then offer fascinating insight into academic career progression
All scientists can improve their writing skills by realising that they need to sell as well as tell the story, says author of new guide
Scholars should cheer up and learn to take the rough with the smooth, says John Tregoning
New book explores the anxieties of Peking and Tsinghua students caught between their parents, the Communist Party and new Western ideas about education
Academic precarity is a special kind of ‘torture’, observes Siobhan O'Dwyer, but scholarly life is not all doom and gloom
Johannes Haushofer lists failures in attempt to 'balance the record' on how he climbed the greasy pole of academia
Most research isn't rocket science, so just do your best, says Beth McMillan
Campus staff will have to report their whereabouts to managers when they leave their ‘normal place of work’ for a morning or afternoon
Tim Softley, Peter Schiffer and Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela explain the benefits of a transatlantic partnership
Asked how they would like to be remembered, high-achieving physicists cited intellectual accomplishments while others referred to personal qualities
Analysis reveals some disciplines could leave graduates at a much greater risk of being replaced by machines in the future
Take it as a compliment if other people are doing similar studies to you, says Sam Schwarzkopf
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Academics who think they can do the work of professional staff better than professional staff themselves are not showing the kind of respect they expect from others
Emilie Murphy calls on those who challenged the teaching excellence framework methodology in the past to stop sharing their university ratings with pride
Sir Christopher Snowden, former Universities UK president, attacks ratings in wake of Southampton’s bronze award
Simon Baker explores the mechanics of the teaching excellence framework to determine if it was fair, if universities will attempt to game it, if it will win public favour and if it will change in future iterations
The results of the 2017 teaching excellence framework in full. Find out which universities were awarded gold, silver or bronze