PhDs and postdocs turn to social media to answer their pressing questions. Earlier this month, Nadine Muller, an honorary research associate at the University of Hull’s English department who recently passed her PhD, sent an innocuous post on microblogging site Twitter for ideas on what to include in a talk she was about to give […]

The research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students  Researchers of Tomorrow is the UK’s largest study to date on the research behaviour of Generation Y doctoral students (born between 1982 and 1994). JISC and the British Library jointly commissioned the three year study in 2009, which involved 17,000 doctoral students from 70 universities at various […]