The scientific workplace can be a melting pot of different cultures and mentoring styles, leading to some interesting lab dynamics. 15 Sept 2021
Scientist mentors describe how supporting junior colleagues alongside many other responsibilities is a true labour of love. 8 Sept 2021
Julie Gould explores professional identity and motivation by asking five researchers how they keep a childhood love of science alive, despite the setbacks.
Postdocs and other early-career researchers need better trained lab leaders, not just nicer ones, Julie Gould discovers.
Experience as a postdoctoral researcher might not fast-track your career outside academia, Julie Gould discovers.
I investigate how brain drains and demographic time bombs are forcing some countries to rethink the postdoc.
After a brief stint as a general surgeon, and a PhD in translational cancer research from the MRC Cancer Cell Unit, University of Cambridge, UK, Bali Muralidhar changed career direction to venture capital investment. Finding job satisfaction as a venture…
Her job is to get scientific expertise into the heads of decision-makers. Trade Talk: Policy Analyst, published on 12 November 2015, is an interview with Catherine Ball, as part of the Nature Careers Trade Talk series. In the interview, Catherine…
Opportunities abound in the non-profit sector for researchers who seek to follow their passions. Non-profit organizations: Scientists on a mission, published in Nature Careers on 12 November 2015, explores what it's like working for various different types of science-focussed non-profit…
Working in science policy is all about taking complex science from experts and translating it into something accessible, to be used in key decision making. Finding job satisfaction as a policy analyst is a Q&A with Catherine Ball, a policy analyst with…