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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Training outside the box
I am a biological and physical scientist by training. My scientific career has involved practical experience of bugs, frogs, gels, pipettes...
26 January 2010
By Tennie Videler
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Vitae blog by the numbers
After reading Sarah's great review discussing some of the many highlights that have transpired on the RS blog hosted by Vitae, I felt ...
22 January 2010
By Matthew Salois
Categories: research staff, research staff organisation
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Happy 100th!
As other Research Staff Blog geeks will have noticed, this is our 100th post. This seems like a reasonable excuse for a party – or at...
21 January 2010
By Sarah Davies
Categories: research staff, research staff organisation
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Introducing the UKRSA
At the research staff conference in November a pressing need for a research staff community was made clear. I also asked for volunteers for...
21 January 2010
By Tennie Videler
Categories: research staff, research staff organisation
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Citeulike - keeping your bibliography on the web
I've recently discovered Citeulike, a website that organises your references and bibliographies for you in a nice shiny web2.0 kinda way. A...
20 January 2010
By Hannah Dee
Categories: Learning, mobility, practical tips
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Insecure Scholars
Earlier this week Nick highlighted the experiences of Nature’s post-doc journal keepers (you can view their full archives here). Whil...
17 January 2010
By Sarah Davies
Categories: Research, research staff
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Academic mobility
Several posts in this blog have looked at mobility of researchers: in no particular order (or reason of selection) Sarah’s Pots...
17 January 2010
By Tennie Videler
Categories: career, mobility, research staff
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Post-doc Punk Dilemma
Below is a link to an excellent article in Nature yesterday, although obviously science-focused I think it is relevant to all researchers a...
15 January 2010
By Nick Dickens
Categories: career, research staff
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The coffee club theory of departmental sociability
There seem to be three types of coffee system in university departments. Type one, is a completely top-down system, in which a centra...
13 January 2010
By Hannah Dee
Categories: development, support, mentors
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Colorado and back
I recently returned home from a 3 month research visit to the Colorado School of Mines in the US. On my journey home on the plane I reflect...
13 January 2010
By William Parnell
Categories: Research, development, training
