University of Nottingham - academia top ten

The University of Nottingham is one of the top ten international places to work in academia for life sciences, according to The Scientist magazine. The University appears alongside institutions such as the University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Queensland, Australia in the ranking, which looks at institutions outside the US. Each year The Scientist — a magazine of the life sciences — polls its readers, asking them to assess their working environment on a number of criteria. These range from job satisfaction, opportunities for promotion, research resources and pay to infrastructure, environment, management and policies. 2010 marks the eighth year of the survey. Professor Karen Cox, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Staffing and the Community, said: "We're delighted that The University of Nottingham has been recognised as one of the top ten places to work in academia internationally. The quality of our research and teaching links directly to working environments and job satisfaction, so it's great that our life sciences colleagues feel this way." The University of Nottingham is a favourite with readers of The Scientist.