Research policy - Topics

Is degree level really a predictor of job performance? Engineering ethics when your employer is also the client The ethics of sorting job applicants by schooling Supervising a PhD student when your own job is insecure Why education categories shift every decade and break the time series How education data gets used to justify policy it cannot support What grouping people by education predicts and what it misses How citation counts became a measure of a person Citizen scientists contributing observations to real projects Preprints changed how scientists claim priority Occupational licensing: which jobs require permission and why Publish or perish was not always the rule and it reshaped academic careers The grant-writing treadmill: how much of a professor's year goes to fundraising The replication crisis and what it means for a working scientist Core facility staff who keep shared instruments working Research data stewards and why someone has to curate the files Science writers translating papers for everyone else Class size and why teachers say it matters more than any reform What academic freedom actually protects and where it stops Comparing occupations across countries is a translation problem Sabbaticals and visiting posts in an academic career Judging an educator when test scores are the only metric available How teachers are evaluated and why they distrust the metrics Industry vs academic science: the same training and different jobs What a scientist's career looks like after forty Lab technicians: the people who actually run the experiments Research nurses and coordinators who make clinical trials possible Academic conferences: the real work happens in the hallway Statisticians on research teams and the arguments over method What a scientist does all day that never appears in a paper Lab safety failures and who is accountable Being called as an expert witness: when a scientist enters a courtroom