Growing into Teaching Career Diversity for Historians
Growing into Teaching Career Diversity for Historians
Students should actively consider and prepare for the work they are personally most suited to, whether within or beyond the academy.
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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of "outsiders" ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail.
Out of Office Replies and What They Can Say About You
An automated e-mail response posted by an academic researcher on Twitter unleashed a social-media debate about the importance of work-life balance.
US National Academies Launches Search for Evidence-based Programmes to Support Scientist Parents
Top Tips for Getting Your Science out There
Craig Cormick explains how scientists can get their arguments across to members of the public.
The 2020 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers
The 2020 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers
What chief academic officers think about the academic health of their institutions, the role of tenure, general education and much more.
Stress, Anxiety, Harassment: Huge Survey Reveals Pressures of Scientists' Working Lives
Stress, Anxiety, Harassment: Huge Survey Reveals Pressures of Scientists' Working Lives
Global study highlights long hours, poor job security and mental-health struggles.
Academics Must Balance Privacy and Honesty to Become Great Role Models
Diversity initiatives applaud role models but academics who are carers can have trouble relinquishing family privacy to share their experiences.
Mental Health in Academia: What About Faculty?
After two heart attacks in three years, an associate professor discusses the challenges of faculty life.
Apprenticeship Series: Age of Apprenticeships
Employers are missing the opportunity to support career changes, upskilling, and return to work opportunities which are relevant and inclusive to a diverse range of people.
There's No Winter Break From 'Publish or Perish'
An analysis of submissions to two top journals showed that scientists in the U.S. were highly likely to be working during holidays.
Nature's 10
Ten people who mattered in science in 2019 according to nature.
Games Academics Play and Their Consequences: How Authorship, H-Index and Journal Impact Factors Are Shaping the Future of Academia
Games Academics Play and Their Consequences: How Authorship, H-Index and Journal Impact Factors Are Shaping the Future of Academia
Research is a highly competitive profession where evaluation plays a central role. Yet such evaluations are often done in inappropriate ways that are damaging to individual careers, and to the profession.
Dutch End 'one-sided' Research Focus and Hope World Follows
Proposals include new job classifications, a rolling back of metrics, and shorter publication lists in a bid to end excessive 'emphasis on research performance'.
Towards Responsible Research Career Assessment
Growing evidence suggests that the evaluation of researchers’ careers on the basis of narrow definitions of excellence is restricting diversity in academia, both in the development of its labour force and its approaches to address societal challenges. Recommendations are suggested for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.
Towards a Community-endorsed Data Stewardship Profession
Data stewardship encompasses all of the various tasks and responsibilities that relate to research data management throughout the entire research lifecycle. It has been discussed at the 14th RDA Plenary in Helsinki by research, industry and policy experts.
The Guardian's View on University Strikes: a Battle for the Soul of the Campus
The Guardian's View on University Strikes: a Battle for the Soul of the Campus
The market model in higher education has created an intellectual precariat who are right to fight back.
A Message for Mentors from Dissatisfied Graduate Students
A Message for Mentors from Dissatisfied Graduate Students
In this second article to mark Nature's 2019 graduate survey, respondents call for more one-to-one support and better career guidance.
How to Set Boundaries That Support Your Personal Life and Career
Tamara Yakaboski describes ways you can set boundaries that support your personal life and professional needs.
PhDs: the Tortuous Truth
Nature's survey of more than 6,000 graduate students reveals the turbulent nature of doctoral research. The mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention.
The Mental Health of PhD Researchers Demands Urgent Attention
The Mental Health of PhD Researchers Demands Urgent Attention
Anxiety and depression among graduate students seems to be on the rise. Systemic change is needed to halt an ongoing crisis.
Insights from a Survey-based Analysis of the Academic Job Market
Many postdoctoral fellows in the STEM fields enter the academic job market with little knowledge of the process and expectations, and without any means to assess their qualifications relative to the general applicant pool. Demystifying this process is critical, as there is little information publicly available.
What Do We Know About Ph.D. Scientists' Career Paths?
For institutions ostensibly in the business of amassing knowledge, universities know remarkably little about what happens to their Ph.D. alumni once they leave graduate school.
The making of professors: Assessment and recognition in academic recruitment
How do academics become professors? This paper considers the making of ‘professor’ as a subject position through which academics are acknowledged in both organizational contexts and disciplinary fields.
43 Percent of White Students Harvard Admits Are Legacies, Jocks, or the Kids of Donors and Faculty
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