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Search engine tools for researchers
What happens when you Google your name? Ever wondered if you could move yourself higher up the results, or if you could find out who's been looking at your homepage? This article provides a few tips.
26 August 2010
Categories: development, mobility, research staff, training, support
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Hug a visiting researcher today!
I didn't realise quite how hard it was to settle in to a new place and develop a social life until I took up a contract in France for a y
17 August 2010
Categories: mobility, short term contracts, support, practical tips
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Research proposals - time and timing
Applying for grants or fellowships is not only time-consuming, but also an obstruction to other aspects of your life and career because of the timing of the process. You've invested a lot in proposal, and it's not easy to get on with life while waiting for the outcome, since you're often faced with short-term career choices where the 'sensible' option seems to be to assume that you won't get the funding. The alternative is to put yourself in limbo for several months.
27 August 2010
Categories: Research, career, development, mobility
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All change please, all change
A friend of mine is currently considering an about-turn in career: after a humanities first degree and several years working in project m
13 August 2010
Categories: Research, career, mobility, research staff
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Concentration of research funding: a cautionary tale
Some years ago, a research centre with which I had a close association went through a near catastrophic shake-up. The centre, a small but s
19 August 2010
Categories: Research, mobility, research staff
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what do researchers do abroad?
I have over the last few months found out about two international studies on employment destinations in similar vein to Vitae’s W
09 August 2010
Categories: career, mobility, research staff
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I fought the law. The law won.
If you’re anything like myself and my colleagues, you have a vague sense that things are changing around fixed term contracts but n
15 July 2010
Categories: career, development, mobility, short term contracts, research staff
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Why researchers can't research
A health warning: this is a rant, pure and simple, written at a particularly stressful moment and saved until I’d calmed down a bit
23 July 2010
Categories: Research, career, mobility, short term contracts, research staff
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Frustration with forms
I seem to be spending a lot of my time right now filling in forms. I've done a bit of web work and I've also done questionnaire stu
23 July 2010
Categories: mobility, short term contracts, CVs
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The new budget...what will it mean for researchers?
Just a quick post to note that, even from across the pond, it's obvious that the coalition government have now announced their new budget.
24 May 2010
