By Anne Guarnera. While we here at GradHacker have written on alt-ac careers before—including Adopting an Alt-Ac Strategy from the Start and the First Steps to Launching an Alt-Ac Search—most of our posts have been very general, and as I’ve been working on my own alt-ac strategy for the past year or so, I realized that a more specific resource might benefit GradHackers who, like me, love being in the classroom but are seeking career opportunities outside of a tenure-track position. Read more...
Asking Questions to Improve Research Strategy
By Anjali Gopal. My first substantial research experience was in a genomics lab, where I wanted to dig into the booming world of bioinformatics. I was green, green, green, and determined to prove my competence: I was going to be a computational expert, build systems from the ground up, and do the type of analysis that would change the face of cancer and antibiotics resistance and heritable disease. Read more...
Say Yes: The Benefits and Risks of Working for Free
By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. After earning my MA back in 2005, I decided that I wanted a change of pace from academic writing and decided to try my hand at what we in academia sometimes call “public writing.” In short, I became a freelance journalist. Read more...
Self-Care, Emotional Health, Dissertation. In That Order.
By DeWitt Scott. There is absolutely nothing easy about pursuing a graduate degree. Long hours of sustained reading, writing, and thinking, coupled with the regular challenges of our everyday lives, can often lead to exhaustion, frustration, and burnout. Read more...
How to Write Like an Olympian
By Shira Lurie. The summer Olympics have come to an end, and with it, the summer itself. A new school year means new students, new goals, and if the commercials are to be believed, new shoes. Read more...
How to Improve Your Finances this School Year
By Emily Roberts. A new school year brings the sense of a fresh start, even for those of us who are largely unmoored from the academic calendar. Even with a grad student's limited income, we can harness our renewed optimism for our finances each September. Read more...
Hearing without (Necessarily) Listening: The Soundtrack to Your Work Life
By Laura McCoy. Confession time: I’ve cried in the archives. Surprisingly, it wasn’t out of frustration at turning the page to find I needed to decipher yet another letter that was in French, cross-hatch, and maddeningly impenetrable handwriting. Read more...
Working While Studying – It was right for me, is it right for you?
By Chris Smith. In my personal experience, the work-life balance is at its most uneven at university. I say personal experience because as a student, I’ve always held down a part-time job while studying. Read more...
Le financement territorial de la R&T au cours de l'acte II de la décentralisation (2004-2014) - Note d'information n°7
Après une forte croissance de 2004 à 2009, les dépenses des collectivités territoriales en faveur de la recherche et du transfert de technologie (R&T), se stabilisent à 1,2 milliard d’euros (Md€) par an jusqu’en 2014. 28 % de ces financements sont inscrits aux contrats de projets/plan État-Région.
Journée autour de l'accueil des étudiants migrants
Lundi 26 septembre, 150 représentants d’établissements, du CNOUS mais également d’autres administrations impliquées (le ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International, le ministère de l’Intérieur, l'Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatride), des associations et des migrants étudiants ont participé à une journée d’échanges relative à l’accueil des migrants étudiants en France. Voir l'article...