Editor's note: For the past year, Robert Phillips, has been working as an Enterprise Fellow at Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC). Phillips trained as a biochemist and worked in research through to post-doc level. As an Enterprise Fellow, he now teaches business-enterprise to university undergrads and postgrads. Part of his remit is assisting science postgraduates acquire the skills and ...
Six months ago I was a postdoc working on G protein kinetics in a biochemistry department; now I'm working as an Enterprise Fellow at Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC) where I teach university students "business enterprise" -- entrepreneurship -- while I try to start up my own business. This is not as bizarre a transformation as you may think. My interest in the commercial side of scien...
Editor's note: For the past year, Robert Phillips, has been working as an Enterprise Fellow at Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC). Robert trained as a biochemist and worked in research up to postdoc level. As an Enterprise Fellow, he now teaches business enterprise to university undergrads and postgrads. Part of his remit is assisting science postgraduates acquire the skills and knowledg...
Next Wave examines training opportunities in the United Kingdom for technology-transfer professionals, particularly for those making a career transition from research to industry.
At a time when girls are reported to be out-performing boys in the classroom, there still seems to be a problem with women capitalising on their scientific qualifications. Unfortunately, policy-makers seem slow to take notice. But should they care--does it matter that women are not fulfilling their potential? Judith Glover thinks so. A reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the Un...
A new report on the current role of women in science presented to the House of Lords' inquiry into "Science and Society" reached a troubling conclusion. Despite attracting almost 300 participants over the course of a 4-week-long online Internet consultation held last November, the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST) found that there simply aren't enough hard statistics on which...
Who hasn't read a science article or heard a report on some new technology and thought, 'I could do that!' Well, if you have, here's your chance to find out whether it's as easy as it seems. Every year, the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) offers 10 fellowships for active research scientists to walk into the dens of the top science writers and reporters, and 'do it'! Seemed...
Hands up, all you postdocs out there who feel time slipping away. You know you can't postdoc forever, and the longer you put off the decision about where your future lies the harder it might be to make the leap. So gird up your loins, because, as I discovered, moving from the research lab you know into the uncharted waters of your new career can involve taking a few risks and a willingness to put...
Not many people have orbited the planet more than 750 times, and very few of them have been women. Bonnie Dunbar (see picture at left), who visited Cambridge earlier this year to talk about her inspiring career, is a member of an elite team of women that has participated in the space race over the last 35 years. From graduate student to her current role as an assistant director of the NASA Johnso...
