Leadership in science: “There is nothing wrong with being wrong”
How do you learn leadership skills as a researcher, and how well is science served by its current crop of leaders?These are just two of the questions asked of scientific leaders from a range of sector...
4 Helmi 202321min
Why empathy is a key quality in science leadership
How do you learn leadership skills as a researcher, and how well is science served by its current crop of leaders?These are just two of the questions asked of scientific leaders from a range of sector...
28 Tammi 202320min
Mastering the art of saying no should be part of a research leader’s toolkit
How do you learn leadership skills as a researcher, and how well is science served by its current crop of leaders?These are just two of the questions asked of scientific leaders from a range of differ...
21 Tammi 202319min
Leadership in science: how female researchers are breaking up the boys’ club
How do you learn leadership skills as a researcher, and how well is science served by its current crop of leaders?These are just two of the questions asked of scientific leaders from a range of differ...
13 Tammi 202321min
Rescinded job offers and quarantine hotels: what lockdown lab moves taught us
Alongside the stresses of adapting to a new country and settling into a new lab, scientists who have made the move abroad since 2020 often face extra barriers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.Thes...
9 Joulu 202224min
Moving labs: a checklist for researchers with disabilities
Kelsey Byers outlines some of the things disabled scientists should look out when they are looking to move labs, both at home and abroad. Byers, an evolutionary chemical ecologist who was diagnosed wi...
2 Joulu 202228min
‘The dumbest person in the room:’ moving labs and switching fields
After completing a PhD in cancer biology at the University of Chicago, Illinois, in 2017, Tim Fessenden moved to a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge to focus on immu...
24 Marras 202226min
Moving labs, moving countries: how to get both right
In the third episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series about moving labs, three researchers who moved abroad for work describe how they handled the challenges it brought, including lan...
17 Marras 202228min
