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Early career researchers

6 January 2017

  • Closeup portrait, tired young woman scientist,crashing, with failed experiments and working long hours, leaning head<br>EKMA3R Closeup portrait, tired young woman scientist,crashing, with failed experiments and working long hours, leaning head

    I landed my dream PhD – and it turned into a nightmare

    Cutting-edge research, international collaboration and full funding: the project sounded too good to be true. It was.

14 October 2016

  • Man at the airport

    I'm a researcher from the EU and Brexit has left me in limbo

    Although I have a UK PhD and married a Brit, I no longer plan to stay here – but moving back home isn’t so simple either

28 September 2016

  • Lecturers on strike earlier this year.

    Academic staff: we graduate teaching assistants need you to fight for us

    Udith Dematagoda
    The plight of broke PhD students doing hours of unpaid work is scandalous. We need permanent staff and unions to acknowledge this, and help

14 March 2016

  • Gallows

    Studying 18th-century criminals makes me look at my modern prejudice

    Stephen Basdeo
    I can empathise with the rogues of the 1700s, and their stories give me a new perspective on present-day crime

4 January 2016

  • Galaxy

    My PhD takes me into a world of space molecules and alien fart jokes

    Alec Owens
    I spend long hours in front of computers in a sleepy German town, learning the dark arts of quantum chemistry - but I wouldn’t have it any other way

4 December 2015

  • Piggy bank

    Teaching at a university means constant pressure - for about £5 an hour

    Anonymous Academic
    I care about my students, but poor pay, discrimination and unrealistic workloads are making me want to quit

30 July 2015

  • The poet and author Joseph Zobel was born on the French Caribbean island Martinique.

    My Indiana Jones moment: the day I uncovered an error in the archives

    The discovery of a simple mislabelling of a painting in the British Library has led to a series of new insights for one early career researcher

16 July 2015

  • PhD students work alongside university employed researchers but do not necessarily have the same rights

    Should PhD students be classed as employees?

    Tom Livermore and Jamie Gallagher
    Two early-career researchers go head-to-head to argue for and against changing the status of PhD researchers to fully-fledged university employees

29 December 2014

  • Tired student with book

    PhD students: what to do if you don't work well with your supervisor

    PhD supervisors can be like parents – sometimes supportive, sometimes controlling or critical, says Gina Wisker, who offers advice on how to make the relationship work

10 October 2014

  • Male Tutor Teaching University Students In Classroom

    Universities must be transparent about how they allocate teaching hours

    Anonymous Academic
    The current system exploits graduate teaching assistants, excludes them from discussions and often treats them as a lower class of teachers

29 September 2014

  • Steph Ratcliffe

    Day in the life of a PhD student: share your photos

    Whether you’re counting down to an October deadline, just started, or are somewhere in between, illustrate what life is like as a PhD student through sharing a picture on GuardianWitness

26 September 2014

  • HONORARY DEGREE AND CHANCELLOR CEREMONY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, BRITAIN - 25 JUN 2003

    Early career academics would be better off working in ‘less prestigious’ unis

    Anonymous Academic
    I’ve never felt so valued working in a post-1992 university, says our anonymous academic – fledgling academics are missing a world of opportunities in pursuing ideas of prestige

15 September 2014

  • Science lab

    Too many science PhDs? Not if unis train them for careers outside academia

    Only 3.5% of UK science PhDs stay in university research. It’s time universities recognised that, and trained them accordingly

27 August 2014

  • Student on library computer

    Finishing your PhD thesis: 15 top tips from those in the know

    Trying to complete a PhD thesis in time for the October deadline? We share some advice on getting over that final hurdle

22 August 2014

  • Heavy chain with a padlock around a laptop

    University research: if you believe in openness, stand up for it

    Publishing openly provides greater exposure, boosts prospects and can lead to more citations, says Erin McKiernan

20 August 2014

  • Female student in library

    The key to a successful PhD thesis? Write in your own voice

    We need to step out beyond the safety of footnotes and the words of big-name scholars to reach a level of academic independence

1 August 2014

  • Job interview

    Why advertise research jobs if you've already picked your winner?

    Anonymous Academic
    There’s no point in advertising a research job if a good internal candidate has already been lined up, says our anonymous academic

21 July 2014

  • public engagement

    10 ways to make public engagement work for you

    Engaging with the public and research go hand in hand. It's time to ditch the paranoia, and build up a presence in public debate

8 July 2014

  • student in library

    Studying for a humanities PhD can make you feel cut off from humanity

    We need to talk about how to prevent solitude from slipping into isolation, says Michael Perfect, who offers his five top tips

26 May 2014

  • developing world academic

    Confessions of an academic in the developing world

    Far from western hubs of learning, we face fierce pressure to compete with our peers, often at the expense of research quality
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