Welcome to the Vitae research staff blog. Articles are invited by all members of research staff, or those interested in their development. Therefore the views expressed are personal and not necessarily Vitae's. Please feel free to post articles on career, professional and personal development, policy developments e.g. the Concordat, feature articles such as interviews, career histories, academics talking about their time as a member of research staff etc. and any useful resources.
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The power of networking
I’m a networker. I love meeting new people, connecting people and being able to help people out. However the word ‘networking&r...
19 February 2010
By Maggie Berry
Categories: career, development, training, support, practical tips
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Some useful careers websites
Using Twitter I found some career websites that are not directly aimed at researchers that I still thought would be useful. After all, a ca...
17 February 2010
By Tennie Videler
Categories: career, short term contracts
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Work to Live, Don't Live to Work
We've had several posts on work life balance , taking holidays and enjoying our jobs, but today I am celebrating and riding a cloud ...
17 February 2010
By Nick Dickens
Categories: Research, practical tips
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Mickey Mouse Degrees
I know that it isn't strictly relevant to research careers, but as a group of people who work in research and so probably either directly o...
12 February 2010
By Nick Dickens
Categories: Research
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Do you take all of your holiday allowance?
What are people's experiences with allocated annual leave - do you take yours or do you end up not taking it because you're just too busy? ...
11 February 2010
By Blanka Sengerová
Categories: research staff
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How often do you see your PI?
I've worked in a few labs now as a common-or-garden postdoc, and one thing that really varies is how much actual "supervision" I get. Some ...
10 February 2010
By Hannah Dee
Categories: Research, development, support
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Why I love my job
It’s easy, as a contract researcher, to fall into self-pity. Like the THES’s insecure scholar, many of us are battling short te...
09 February 2010
By Sarah Davies
Categories: career, research staff
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Testing My Resolve
It's been (over) a month since the new year and all the resolutions that I made, a lot of them work and career-related. Overall I'd s...
08 February 2010
By Nick Dickens
Categories: career
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English libel laws and science
I have written some articles about the following issue in various places, including for the UKGrad magazine published by Vitae (as a recent...
07 February 2010
By Blanka Sengerová
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Vitae courses for research staff
Vitae run new courses for research staff and doctoral researchers nationally. They are designed and delivered by some of the best facilitat...
05 February 2010
By Tennie Videler
