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THE-Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings research success survey

Are research careers meritocratic? Do universities do enough to support researchers? Is impact more important than publications? Is interdisciplinarity the key to new discoveries? Can internationalisation survive the current global tensions? We present the views of more than 400 future sector leaders

By Paul Jump

9 October

What is the happiest academic career stage?

As precarity affects ever more academics for ever longer, many have come to see a permanent position as the gateway to professional happiness. But does it always work out that way? Or do the responsibilities and trade-offs of seniority outweigh the joys of security and salary? Seven academics have their say

By Lyn Yates

21 July

The Netherlands mud marathon to illustrate Is early career precarity finally being addressed?

Is this the beginning of the end of early career precarity?

Even before Covid led to so many job losses among casual and fixed-term academic staff, mass insecurity was increasingly being recognised as a blight on the sector. But is there any realistic prospect of permanent contracts all round? Ben Upton examines the cases of Germany and the Netherlands

By Ben Upton

7 July