I have spent the majority of my working life as a lecturer and senior lecturer in a mid-ranking university and being reasonably successful in most
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Category: Career stage
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Kinder peer review
This is a guest post by Dr Rebecca Kirk, Executive Editor, Nature Partner Journals Every day, thousands of scientists around the world donate their spare
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If you were the only girl in the … room?
My journey into computing started quite late, in my last two years of high school in Switzerland. I decided to take an International higher level
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My worst presentation
My first ever scientific presentation was for my 6-month Masters project as part of my Physics degree. And it was bad. The presentation started off
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On being brave
This is a Guest Post by Professor Dave Cliff I once made a video, or should I say: a video was once made of me.
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Balancing a part-time PhD with paid work
This is a Guest Post from Andy Wilson As a mature self funding part-time astronomy PhD student I cannot be accused of taking the easy