Errant Science
Are you a researcher working in the UK? Are you annoyed at the lack of permanent employment, the need to work many short term contracts, poor job recognition, no support for funding applications and needless pressures for targets and metrics?!
So today I had planned to start a new series on my blog called “The Secret Diary of a post-Doc, aged 31 and 3/4”. If the title didn’t give it away, it was to be a diary format posted once a month, detailing my world of post-Doc’ing in a style more akin to a certain similarly named novel than my usual fare.
A bonus comic of my WordPress history ebook for anyone aged 3 and up
As I mentioned before, I’m taking my PGCert in Higher Education. For those not in the know, this is a qualification that …
It’s a brand new year and as tradition dictates, a time when we make impossible promises we have absolutely no intention of …
[UPDATE: Lectures are over but you can go watch them here!] This week is the first of the Royal Institute’s Christmas lectures. They …
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the laboratory
Not a experiment was stirring, not even the gas chromatography;
The labcoats were hung by the door with great care,
In hope whomever’s turn it was to wash them soon would be there;
I have a fixed holiday contract whereby I get a certain number of days of holiday a year. Cranfield University are very …
