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Time Management: Stressed Science Needs to Slow Down

Time Management: Stressed Science Needs to Slow Down

Current evidence suggests that beyond a certain number of hours per week-around 40-productivity actually decreases. We need to appreciate our brain is a physically limited resource.

How Not To Be A Crank: Ten Rules For Not Being A Science-Dick

How Not To Be A Crank: Ten Rules For Not Being A Science-Dick

When you criticize science in public, you are taking a complicated argument to people who don’t care very much about the work of someone who wishes you’d shut up. This can be difficult to navigate. Although it’s often ‘a complete pain in the taint’ more than just ‘difficult’.

The UCUStrikes: a Battle for the Future of Higher Education

The UCUStrikes: a Battle for the Future of Higher Education

What type of university system do we want? One with a casualised workforce and vice-chancellors who can claim they deserve exorbitant pay packages for running commercial organisations? Or one in wh…

Work-Life Balance Survey 2018: Long Hours Take Their Toll on Academics

Work-Life Balance Survey 2018: Long Hours Take Their Toll on Academics

Times Higher Education’s first major global survey of university staff views on work-life balance finds academics feeling stressed and underpaid, and struggling to fit time for personal relationships and family around their ever-growing workloads.

Management 101 for Scientists – Three Rules for Managing a Successful Team

Management 101 for Scientists – Three Rules for Managing a Successful Team

Good management can make an enormous difference in the success and productivity of any team.

Honest Mistakes by Young Scientists Shouldn’t Doom Their Careers

Honest Mistakes by Young Scientists Shouldn’t Doom Their Careers

For those researchers, the pressure to publish is intense, as they vie for the few jobs at the heads of academic labs. This atmosphere can lead to mistakes.

The ABC of panel scoring: Anchoring, Bias and Committee Procedures

The ABC of panel scoring: Anchoring, Bias and Committee Procedures

Academic life is particularly full of rank ordered lists, even if they are frequently not transparently available.