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STEM PhDs with disabilities are underpaid and underrepresented in U.S. academia New research from the Disability Health Research Center reveals significant pay disparities among STEM PhD holders across all employment sectors New research from the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center suggests that PhD graduates in science, technology, engineering, and medicine in the U.S. who were born with disabilities or became disabled before age 25 earn $14,360 less per year in academia than those without disabilities.

The Max Planck Institutes in Bremen, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Martinsried are delighted to receive the prestigious Consolidator Grants, each worth around two million euros.

Study shows how leaders can break down "benevolent marginalization" Western professor co-authors paper on how firms' EDI initiatives often affect disadvantaged groups negatively There has been signifi

From fall 2024, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts will be offering Switzerland's first Bachelor's degree course in immersive technologies.

A study of over 12,000 people in the US, comparing Baby Boomers and Millennials, raises concerns about Millennials' diverging financial gains.

Were lockdowns an effective response to Covid-19 or would it have been better to limit intervention and let individuals spontaneously reduce their own risk of infection?  Three years on from the publ

Finding ways to make the best use of collected data to gain insight into biodiversity and how it changes over time.

Delft University of Technology researchers are launching a study on a new way of working and innovations at Schiphol's baggage handling halls.

Intense public pressure on teachers to "get back to school" during the COVID-19 lockdowns deepened an already widespread sense that they were undervalued, and left some actively rethinking their careers, research shows. The finding comes from newly published research, following on from an earlier study with a small group of primary and secondary teachers during lockdown.

EXPERT Q&A Among health care job sectors, nursing homes have been the most adversely affected by declines in employment growth since the pandemic-a rate more than triple that of hospitals or physician offices, says a University of Michigan researcher.

How productive are we when we work from home? It's an increasingly common question. But Gudela Grote believes it's the wrong question, because it says more about our conceptions of human nature than about effective ways of working. 2020 proved that being flexible about where we work (and the hours we work) can benefit employees and employers.

Retraining Alberta's oil and gas workers for the solar industry costs far less than you think. The results of our new study clearly show that a rapid transition to sustainable energy production is feasible , as costs of retraining oil and gas workers are far from prohibitive.

A new pilot scheme to monitor infections in care homes across England is being co-led by UCL researchers.

Radboud sociologists Roza Meuleman and Gerbert Kraaykamp discovered that it is easier to find a good job if you are familiar with the culture of higher socioeconomic status groups.