This is a guest post by Rhyd Lewis, Reader in Mathematics, Cardiff University. Some time ago I was asked to edit a special issue of
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Category: Making science better
A view from an Engineering picket line
This is the third post in our series about the UCU Strike, and is a guest post from Eleanor Blair. Eleanor is a Computer Officer
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I can’t strike; am I borrowing from everyone else’s future?
This is an anonymous piece from someone working in a United Kingdom Higher Education institution. At the moment, November-December 2019, the UCU (University and College
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Spending your own money on work
I was in a car with some friends a few weeks ago and found out that one of them had spent their own money on
Science, surnames and marriage
I got married during my PhD, after I had published my first paper and presented at conferences. I deliberated for years about what to do
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Learning to Program
This post is contributed by Lucy Mitchell, who taught at a coding bootcamp before working as a developer in health tech (). She also occasionally