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Career - Innovation - 06.01.2025
Co-op students make a big impact at Shopify
Co-op students make a big impact at Shopify
In the current age of technological disruption, Waterloo students are striving to understand the needs of the business world and tackle the biggest challenges they face.

Health - Career - 02.01.2025
Remembering Mike Walter: ’We loved him, and he loved us’

Career - 23.12.2024
Why open secrets are a big problem
Philosopher Sam Berstler diagnoses the corrosive effects of not acknowledging troubling truths. Imagine that the head of a company office is misbehaving, and a disillusioned employee reports the problem to their manager.

Campus - Career - 20.12.2024
MIT-Kalaniyot launches programs for visiting Israeli scholars

Physics - Career - 19.12.2024
King’s working visit to MESA+ Nanolab University of Twente

Career - Pedagogy - 19.12.2024
Millennial women paid less than male colleagues in similar jobs
Working women in their early 30s in England are paid less than men of the same age, in the same types of jobs, who have similar levels of education and work experience, finds a new study from UCL researchers. The report, published today by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies, also finds that women are more likely than men to find work stressful, suggesting that lower pay is not compensated for by less pressured work.

Life Sciences - Career - 18.12.2024
Announcing recipients of early-career fellowships and grants

Psychology - Career - 17.12.2024
Early pregnancy endings are an overlooked workplace issue - here's how that could change
Early pregnancy endings are an overlooked workplace issue - here’s how that could change
Writing in The Conversation, Professor Julie Davies (UCL Global Business School for Health) outlines four key themes employers could address to better handle early pregnancy endings in the workplace.

Health - Career - 17.12.2024
What creates most stress for midwives and the best interventions
What creates most stress for midwives and the best interventions
University of Bath StART research group uncovers how midwives experience and respond to stress, and which interventions are most effective at reducing it Research into stress among midwives has identified the most effective actions individual midwives and healthcare trusts can make to enhance wellbeing and reduce negative outcomes, including staff leaving the profession.

Career - Campus - 17.12.2024
3 Questions: Tracking MIT graduates’ career trajectories

Career - Campus - 10.12.2024
Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau takes the helm at CRIMT
Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau takes the helm at CRIMT

Career - Innovation - 10.12.2024
Some language reward models exhibit political bias
Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds this effect occurs even when reward models are trained on factual data.

Career - Campus - 06.12.2024
Indigenous program inspires law career
Indigenous program inspires law career

Career - Social Sciences - 05.12.2024
77% of LGBTQ young people have faced workplace sexual harassment
77% of LGBTQ young people have faced workplace sexual harassment
Unwanted sexual behaviour is common in workplaces, but LGBTQ employees' harassment is often overlooked, co-writes Dr Cristyn Davies from the Faculty of Medicine and Health.

Career - 05.12.2024
When rescue from modern slavery does not mean freedom: research flags reality of post-rescue life
When rescue from modern slavery does not mean freedom: research flags reality of post-rescue life
Humanitarian organisations are being urged to look beyond the point of rescue.

Health - Career - 05.12.2024
Hopkins leaders announce investments, partnerships during India visit
Hopkins leaders announce investments, partnerships during India visit

Career - Pedagogy - 04.12.2024
Primary school students still perform as well as 20 years ago
The mathematics achievement of Dutch students in grade 4 has hardly changed over the past 20 years. This is evident from the international study 'Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study' (TIMSS-2023), whose results were released today.

Environment - Career - 04.12.2024
Greater Manchester students lead the way to a sustainable future with Green Careers Mission event
Greater Manchester students lead the way to a sustainable future with Green Careers Mission event

Career - 04.12.2024
Women’s cross country runs to first NCAA Division III National Championship

Career - Research Management - 03.12.2024
ERC Consolidator grants for protein and smart material research

Campus - Career - 03.12.2024
Lighting of the Quads turns 20
Lighting of the Quads turns 20

Career - Law - 29.11.2024
Almost one in ten UK workers increasingly trapped in precarious work
It is concerning that 8% of UK workers are 'increasingly precarious' - likely to be stuck in low-paid, insecure or otherwise uncertain work - say researchers from UCL in a new report on the UK labour market.

Career - Innovation - 26.11.2024
MIT’s Science Policy Initiative holds 14th annual Executive Visit Days

Career - Economics - 25.11.2024
Last chance to have your say: Staff Experience Survey closing 29 November
Last chance to have your say: Staff Experience Survey closing 29 November

Art & Design - Career - 25.11.2024
Research into artists’ earnings reveals falling incomes and significant pay disparities
Research undertaken by the University of Glasgow into artists' earnings reveals falling incomes and significant pay disparities across demographics.

Politics - Career - 22.11.2024
Wait-and-see mode, election had minor influence on consumer sentiment trends

Career - Politics - 21.11.2024
U-M forecast: Wider deficits spur continued economic growth in US, Michigan despite high uncertainty

Pedagogy - Career - 21.11.2024
Shaping the future of teaching
Shaping the future of teaching

Career - Economics - 20.11.2024
Last chance to have your say: UniForum Staff Survey closing 22 November
Last chance to have your say: UniForum Staff Survey closing 22 November

Campus - Career - 20.11.2024
Creating the right conditions for UCL’s continued success

Career - 19.11.2024
Employers crucial for inclusion vulnerable groups in labor market
Until now, research on the inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labor market has mainly focused on the individual, examining, for example, the effect of job application training.

Health - Career - 18.11.2024
Celebrating our queer community in STEMM

Career - 14.11.2024
Disability History Month 2024 at UCL
Disability History Month 2024 at UCL

Pharmacology - Career - 14.11.2024
Pharmacy technicians undervalued and underpaid, reveals study
Many of England's pharmacy technicians are forced to endure low pay, poor job satisfaction, bullying, lack of support and stressful work environments, a study by University of Manchester researchers has shown.

Campus - Career - 13.11.2024
Simplifying our services for a better working environment
Simplifying our services for a better working environment
By making improvements to our shared working environment and improving the tools that make our work possible, we can enable our staff to continue the life-changing research and teaching that is having such a positive impact on the world.

Campus - Career - 13.11.2024
Enrolment figures: applications rise slightly

Campus - Career - 12.11.2024
8 Sydney academics receive ARC Linkage grants

Career - 12.11.2024
'Horrifying' trend: women are quitting jobs due to pressure from male partners
’Horrifying’ trend: women are quitting jobs due to pressure from male partners
In an eye-opening address at ANU, Dr Anne Summers AO warned of the severe impacts of domestic violence on women's employment.

Career - 11.11.2024
Answering the call of duty to help our veterans
Answering the call of duty to help our veterans

Materials Science - Career - 08.11.2024
Startup turns mining waste into critical metals for the U.S
Startup turns mining waste into critical metals for the U.S

Health - Career - 07.11.2024
Niers Fund eHealth Voucher goes to the PacePartner

Health - Career - 07.11.2024
Niers Fund eHealth Voucher goes to the Pace Partner

Economics - Career - 06.11.2024
Tepper School Professor To Study Labor Market Effects of Stimulus Payments
Matthew Denes , an assistant professor of finance at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, has received a grant from the  Washington Center for Equitable Growth  to investigate the effectiveness of the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession. He is among a new cohort of researchers who will be analyzing whether policies worked, including better and more equitable outcomes for working-age individuals in the United States.

Linguistics / Literature - Career - 05.11.2024
ERC Synergy Grant for research on phonology

Physics - Career - 05.11.2024
ERC Synergy grants for cutting-edge light-based chips and for blood cells
ERC Synergy grants for cutting-edge light-based chips and for blood cells

Environment - Career - 05.11.2024
Climate change demands system change

Career - 04.11.2024
Increase in cycling accidents and accident risks of cyclists in big cities
Cycling volumes are increasing in many large cities around the world, including large Dutch cities. At the same time, these cities are experiencing a growing number of cyclists involved in serious roa

Politics - Career - 04.11.2024
CMU Community Engages on Election Issues Through Deeper Conversations

Career - Campus - 01.11.2024
Labour must address levelling-up failures by promoting a strong skills base in weaker economies
Labour must address levelling-up failures by promoting a strong skills base in weaker economies

Health - Career - 01.11.2024
Healthcare staff celebrated at Imperial research event