I recently came across a researcher who was giving up. No more academia. There were other, better things to do. She had been working as a contract researcher for a long time. It is not uncommon for contract researchers to spend a long time going from contract to contract. However, the researcher who was giving up […] … learn more→

I’m what you might call a career contract researcher. This wasn’t what I always envisaged from my academic career, but at the same time, it is the product of active choices on my part, where, at least some of the time, alternative options did and do still exist. I’ve been a jobbing researcher since I […] … learn more→