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The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is the first European university, and the second university worldwide, to adopt a research code to counter 'ethics dumping.'
- Irfan Syed
- July 15, 2019
A new law will allow Hungary’s government to take over charge of 15 institutions previously overseen by the Academy of Sciences, the most prestigious academic society in…
- Fatima Qureshi
- July 10, 2019
I was diagnosed with severe clinical depression and specific learning difficulties at the age of 32. In retrospect, it’s been something that I have really struggled with…
When I am feeling my most discouraged and whipped by this PhD I tend to start listing mentally, everything that has happened in my life over the past 2.5 years that have…
Arriving in the remote Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard was like crossing a threshold into my childhood dreams. The many books on polar exploration I devoured as a child…
I am currently in the writing phase of my PhD and have been working hard towards completing my thesis. Here, I have compiled an actual to-do list, based on how I spend…
- Madeleine Kendrick
- July 8, 2019
As I was getting closer to completing my PhD, I imagined my final blog post to be filled with pictures of champagne-flowing glasses, lots of laughing and giggling, and…
Being a medievalist, I realized that there was no way I was getting into a doctoral program without learning Latin. So, I started looking into Master’s programs, and was…
When my daughter was born, I was in the middle of teaching a third-year course online. I could have gone on maternity leave, but the union rules for sessional lecturers…
- Angela Hug
- July 8, 2019
Academic publishing company Springer Nature has signed two new open access deals with the Swedish and the Norwegian consortia. The publisher has now signed a total of 10…
- Fatima Qureshi
- July 5, 2019