There are hundreds of books on Career Planning and thousands of articles, including plenty right here on Next Wave. Nevertheless, Next Wave Netherlands asked Nathalie Peters, Senior Advisor at B&A Human Resources Group, to condense her professional experience into a short article that will help get you started--and to plan your research successfully and satisfyingly. Carrière in de wetenschap Bij...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX I had always imagined myself as a physician in a small southern city with plenty of sand and sun all around me. Now, I imagine myself as a college professor in a southern city with plenty of sand and sun around me. The change is due to the wonderful experiences I have had in biological research as both an undergraduate and as a graduate student. My most recent adventure,...
Increasing numbers of women are going into higher education, so shouldn't we be seeing increasing numbers of women being promoted and achieving professorial status? Yet even in biology, where for decades a high percentage of graduates have been women, fewer than 10% of professors are women. There is an urgent need to examine equal opportunity policies in both academia and industry and to evaluate...
