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The very concept of a recession has contested definitions - so how do we know if we are in one? Dr Luke Hartigan explains in The Conversation.

Evaluation of the OpporTUnity program pilot for professional staff will follow in the spring. Some seventy staff from different service units and departments challenged themselves for a year in an intensive pilot program: the OpporTUnity program.

The Lemelson-MIT/MBK Cambridge program equips local residents with entrepreneurship skills to invent mental health solutions.

Current legal regulations do not offer real protection to employees against companies that use automated emotion recognition systems, which combine biometrics, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to deduce or detect moods or intentions.

Utrecht University welcomes Daniel Dadush as the newly appointed Professor of Geometry of Optimisation.

Study of UK lawyers flags need to consider emotions and coping skills in career progression.

The Burchard Scholars dinner series helps create conversations between academic disciplines. The  Burchard Scholars Program  pairs expert faculty with promising MIT sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated excellence in the humanities, arts, or social sciences.

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.