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How to find and make the most of a summer placement

2024-05-09T13:23:00+01:00By

Five tips for optimising your taste of academic or industrial workplaces

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Summer students act as an important catalyst for research

2024-05-09T09:02:00+01:00By

Investing in undergraduate projects advances science and develops future researchers

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The untapped power of emotional intelligence for PhDs

2024-04-26T12:00:00+01:00By

A crucial asset in academia and industry

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How to teach university-level chemistry well

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Five tips for educating and inspiring university students

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A summer placement doesn’t have to be brilliant to be worthwhile

2024-05-10T13:30:00+01:00By

In praise of the mundane

Practical advice

Inspiring lives

Tattoo ink

Using analytical chemistry to illuminate the unlisted ingredients in tattoo inks

Discovery that more than 80% of the tattoo inks sampled had unlisted ingredients prompts New York-based lab to launch a website providing chemical information to tattoo artists and their clients

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A sustainable career in sustainability

How Xampla’s principal scientist Lynette Holland became an industry leader without sacrificing her work-life balance

Pay & Benefits

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The striking truth

Better pay can benefit the whole research enterprise

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Universities in the UK beat national average on gender pay gap but large discrepancies remain

Report estimates that in 14 years’ time women in higher education will be paid the same as men