Mental health in academic working environments has become an increasingly important topic of discussion over the past few years. This issue is especially relevant to mid-level staff since it is almost inevitably associated with career precariousness, unhealthy pressure to perform and lack of long-term perspectives. Please follow this link to an op-ed published by our … Continued
The Eurodoc 2020 conference will take place in Warsaw, Poland, on April 22-23, 2020. The event is organised by Krajowa Reprezentacja Doktorantów (KRD) and Eurodoc , the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers with the financial support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Republic of Poland. The main aim of the Eurodoc annual conference … Continued
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Fresh off the press from The Guardian, the article reports on how UK academic institutions have created a pool of underpaid researchers and lecturers with little to no prospects of permanent employment and adequate retribution. This effectively creates a mass of highly-educated albeit abused academic workers who have voiced their anger and dismay. For the … Continued
Swissuniversities released this statement concerning its ongoing negotiations with major academic publishers for the promotion and adoption of open access practices The 2019 round of negotiations between swissuniversities and Elsevier, Springer-Nature and Wiley came to an end on 13 December 2019. The results are as follows: Access to content published by Wiley will remain unchanged … Continued
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University.Now! is an event organized by our member ACIDUL at the UNiversity of Lausanne from 5-6. December 2019. Please find more information on this important event dedicated to the future and perspectives for mid-level staff in Switzerland by following this link.
Heidi.news is a new information portal that often focuses on the world at large of scientific research in Switzerland. Amongst others, actionuni co-President Carmen Faso was interviewed by journalist Sophie Gaitzsch on the status of precarious researchers at Swiss universities, the numbers, the challenges and possible solutions. Read the interview here
A recent article in one of Germany’s leading newspapers Die Zeit on why it is important to not only support but just generally show respect to early career researchers. Here in German.
Our board member Alexei Evstratov is part of the organizing committee for the event titled University.Now, Quelle université aujourd’hui ? Forum de la relève suisse which will be held in Lausanne on the 5th and 6th of December. Please follow this link for more information in French and this link for more information in English. … Continued