Is Commercialisation the Dark Side of research?
Commercialisation Star Wars fans – including me – celebrated Star Wars Day last week, on May the 4th… be with you, and recently we have enjoyed the latest instalment in the movie series, so I feel this is a good time to explore the topic of research commercialisation using terms that a...
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...