Career Development for STEMM researchers
Dr Louise Plumtree is a general practitioner (GP) in the UK, who qualified after a first career in local government and a break as a full-time mum. Here I interview Louise about her experience of getting into medical school later in life with the challenges and rewards that it brings. Question 1: What were you … Read more
Considering an academic career with an aim to bag that tenured position and run your own research group? The prospect of being able to answer your own scientific questions is a very compelling career prospect for a researcher. As a result this is many an aspiring post-doc’s dream, but what actually does this leadership transition … Read more
Morning badasses! In this penultimate part of the series I explore how researchers can sometimes reach a point of ambivalence towards their academic employment situation. Feelings of failure, shame and a lack of knowledge about how their skill set could be utilised in other employment sectors, leaves many researchers feeling they need to stick it … Read more