Academia is a complex, challenging, highly competitive career and it is easy to feel lost. In the absence of a simple route from PhD to professor, we are forced to hunt for advice. The problem is how does one get good advice? There is certainly no shortage of it; advice can be found everywhere, from […] … learn more→

In August 1939, the operational head of Britain’s Government Communication and Cypher School, Alistair Denniston, wrote to the Foreign Office about the need to recruit “men of the professor type” into the wartime code-breaking hub at Bletchley Park in order to help combat the Nazi threat. Following the horror of marauding attacks in Paris, the […] … learn more→