How to stay on track in the high speed rail of academia?
Side by side I walk with Maureen over a carpet of yellow and brown leaves on one of the last sunny autumn days. She is doing well in her academic career. After a postdoc at a renowned university abroad she found a promising research job closer to home. Her publications are coming round nicely and she is positioned very well for the next major grant that will help her establish her own research line.
Yet she struggles. As if she is confessing a weakness she tells me: Lees meer →