Bioreactor PhD launches careers
Industry Engagement Swinburne University’s innovative Bioreactor PhD Program was launched only three years ago, with funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), but the benefits of its entrepreneurial focus are already clear to the program’s supervisors, the first...
How to turn your research career into a launch pad to alternative worlds of employment
Researchers' Perspective Earlier this year, I wrote about “Why I left research-and what would have made me and other women stay”. I’ve been blown away by the number of researchers (women and men) who’ve responded by asking how I changed careers successfully. In the halls of academia, many a...
Why I left research—and what would have made me and other women stay
Researchers' Perspective I read a brilliant article this month by my very talented friend Dr Darren Saunders on “What can men do to stem the exodus of women from science?”. Many points in his article I found quite sobering, particularly that women comprise more than half of science PhD...
Swinburne turning PhD’s on their Head
Industry Engagement If you could look 50 years into the future, what would a PhD look like? A new program at Swinburne University is turning the doctoral qualification on its head by embedding students in medical technology companies before they’ve even chosen a research topic. gemaker...