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Back to the grind
Two things have kept me away from this blog for a few weeks: a nice month long holiday (or vacation as I would say) in the US and no intern
22 July 2010
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Just don’t call me a post-doc
I’m a little bit obsessed with the fact that I appear to look younger than I am. After spending my teenage years successfully getting
07 October 2009
Categories: career, research staff
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Confessions of a union rep
As there was such a good response to my “Confessions of a part-timer” blog post, I thought I’d follow it with a few words
24 July 2010
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A Sudden Flurry of Activity
Like Matthew, I’ve been conspicuously absent from the blog recently – and I’m now attempting to make up for it with a sud
27 July 2010
Categories: career, short term contracts, research staff
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Business skills and the low carbon economy course
You know I like to update you when there are Vitae courses coming up that I reckon would be worthwhile. Well, here's a corker (not a Vitae
09 July 2010
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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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Confessions of a Part-Timer
6 months back, my blog post “Career Choice or Dead End?” reported on the challenge facing me, as a full-time research scientist
13 May 2010
Categories: Research, short term contracts, research staff
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9 Reasons to go to conferences
I’ve just booked my first (and probably my only) conference of the year. Nowhere exotic. Dundee, in fact. But it’s the latest m
16 July 2010
Categories: Research, development, research staff, Community
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On how research can change the world
I’ve written before about how research can sometimes feel like a lonely and isolated profession. Even in the best inter-disciplinary,
19 July 2010
Categories: Research, role models, Community
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Public engagement by researchers
I've always been enthusiastic about the idea that as researchers we should be trying to engage the public(s) in one way or another - in lin
03 March 2010
Categories: Research, career, research staff, support
