PhD Students: Where are they now? Dr Saad Niaz Dr Saad Niaz is a business development and partnerships manager at Scientifically Speaking, a global STEAM agency transforming how science is communicated and experienced. He completed his PhD in cancer and pharmaceutical sciences at King’s College London. Here, he investigated the development of novel polymeric 3D-printed…>
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Mentoring women in STEM
Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) are still navigating gender imbalances in their field. While progress has certainly been made, gender disparities remain, particularly in leadership roles and research visibility. One way to close this gap is through mentorship, so that women don’t drop out of the leaky pipeline. Today, we are focusing…>
AI in STEM
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. From search engines that predict your query before you finish typing to AI-based chatboxes as an entry point for customer service, AI is embedded into our daily lives. For those of us in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), this evolution brings both excitement and caution. In academic STEM environments,…>
How to choose a PhD research topic
Are you looking to pursue a PhD? That’s wonderful: the world needs smart people like you, equipped by their training to expand and communicate human knowledge. Welcome aboard! But perhaps you’re not quite sure how to decide what to study and with whom. These are big decisions, but some advice can help. Read on, and…>
Protecting your mental health at work
Read our article to find out more about how stress at work can impact you and your mental health, feel more confident about spotting the signs of declining mental health, and consider some strategies to protect your mental health within the workplace. The well-being of employees has, rightly, become a concern and a priority for…>
How Continuing Professional Development (CPD) can motivate your career
A career in Higher Education (HE) professional services can feel like a niche that can be difficult to describe to others. If you have been working in this area for a while, you might feel you are already highly skilled and that there isn’t really anything left to learn about the job you know so…>
Free Further Education Cover Letter
We recently provided a Free FE CV Template to help get you started on the first step towards landing a job in Further Education (FE). While your CV can and should be so much more than a list of prior experience, it’s inevitable that in maintaining a clear, concise, tabular CV, you’re going to miss…>
Senior-Level Academic Jobs in Artificial Intelligence
Are you an Artificial Intelligence academic looking toward the next stage of your career?
In this section of our series on academic jobs in computer sciences, we take a look at some of the more senior-level jobs available in Artificial Intelligence.
Lecturing Jobs in Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is one of the fastest-growing emerging technologies and is now embedded in almost every sector. The number of UK job postings requesting AI skills and knowledge has more than tripled over the past decade, and employers are looking for graduates who have the right expertise and training to fill the gap.