Category Archives: Science

Six ways to improve young scientists’ career prospects

By Dr Tim Nielsen (Adelaide, South Australia)

[this article was published on the ABC Science website on 26/2/2014]

In a previous article, I described the exodus of disillusioned young researchers into other professions as a result of the low pay, insecure contract work and generally poor career prospects on offer in academia.

If the response to the article is anything to go by, there are a great many young scientists out there struggling to come to terms with the fact that they may not be able to pursue the career they have aspired to throughout much of their adult lives.

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Hanging up their labcoats: Australia’s new brain drain

By Dr Tim Nielsen (Adelaide, South Australia)

[this article was published on the ABC Science website on 16/1/2013]

January is an exciting month for those medical researchers fortunate enough to have received grant funding for new projects in 2014. But as funding success rates continue to fall, a career on the grant treadmill is looking decidedly unattractive to a growing number of younger scientists.

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