Sara is 2 years into her first postdoc, and she has begun to give some serious thought to the next step in her career. Although she is concerned about starting a family and is apprehensive about diving into the publish-or-perish, grant-intensive faculty cycle, she hasn't really considered any option other than applying for academic positions. During her many late nights in the lab she takes time ...
I firmly believe that everyone should be a member of an appropriate trade union. Unfortunately though, when I look at the traditional higher education unions, I find this assertion difficult to maintain. Why? Well, I don't think there is, at the moment, a union for contract research staff. A traditional first choice for union membership should be the Association of University Teachers. Any union ...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Universities are in the people and knowledge business. Highly skilled people are needed by industry, commerce, the service sector, government, and universities themselves. If universities are in the business of providing highly skilled people for the nation, it is a moot point as to why they keep so many of the nation's intellectual elite trapped in short-term postdoctor...
