I’ve been lucky, in my two #altac positions thus far, to have employers who are flexible with scheduling to allow time for my research and professional activities. I start later than most people in my office so that I can write for a couple of hours before work. I’m useless, writing-wise, after eight hours at the office, so I know that it needs to…[Read more]

Amanda, I’m happy to help. I’m speaking from a Canadian context, and from my experience working for Oxford University Press Canada, but I think this advice should be pretty widely applicable. Nearly everyone I worked with at OUP who had started in the last 5-7 years had entered the field via the placement portion of their publishing certificate…[Read more]

Hi! I’m Melissa Dalgleish, and I run the Research Training Centre at the Hospital for Sick Children, which is a teaching hospital in Toronto, Canada. We provide professional and career development training and opportunities for student, postdoctoral, and early career scientists pursuing research at SickKids. I also run the research funding…[Read more]