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Published 12/09/2024 By Fiona McBride Reading time 7 minutes

Demystifying careers in academia

Forging a career path within academia can sometimes be a daunting prospect. Here are a few things to consider as a starting point, as well as some handy links.

Published 15/07/2024 By Fiona McBride Reading time 9 minutes

Postdoc skills: how to use them in and beyond academia

Top tips from former postdocs that have charted careers beyond academia from our MAI panel session with research-careers.org

Published 24/01/2024 By Fiona McBride Reading time 7 minutes

'Life as a Researcher' doesn't have to mean 'Life as an Academic'

Many postdocs assume that a traditional academic career path is the only way to pursue a vocational love of research and being a researcher - but this simply isn't true

Published 13/01/2021 By Fiona McBride Reading time 6 minutes

How can you want what you don’t know about? The importance of career visibility

Take a look at what we know about postdocs' hopes and expectations for their careers, plus what Prosper can do to broaden these.

Published 21/09/2020 By Stefania Silvestri Reading time 6 minutes

Looking to the future during National Postdoc Appreciation Week

In the first of our guest blog series, Dr Annette Bramley, Director of the N8 Research Partnership, takes a look at how postdocs are vital to the North's Covid-...

Published 27/05/2020 By Stefania Silvestri Reading time 8 minutes

Who’s who? Profiling the UK postdoc population

In our latest blog, Prosper's Evaluation Researcher, Dr Peny (Panagiota) Sotiropoulou, dives into the data and looks at what it can tell us about the UK postdoc population.