Publications, Media and Resources

Creative Non Fiction Resource (June 2026)

"Glimpses of research: A collection of Creative Non-Fiction"

Policy note (April 2026)

"Don't look to industry for solutions to academic precarity in STEM"

Research pre-print (April 2026)

"Designing policy-relevant measures of academic job preferences: A mixed-methods study of UK early career researchers"

Research pre-print (March 2026)

"Redeployment in Academia is Rarely Feasible for Early Career Researchers"

Policy Studio Report hosted by ARRC team on 20-21 October 2025 (March 2026)

"Evidence and Ideas: Postdoc and Early Career Researcher Precarity"

Conference Poster: IRCC 2025, University of Warwick (17 September 2025)

"Narrative CVs may be limited in shifting dimensions of research culture in postdoctoral recruitment"

Conference Poster: IRCC 2025, University of Warwick (17 September 2025)

"Workshops for aligning researchers’ professional expectations at the University of Cambridge" ​

Conference Presentation: IRCC 2025, University of Warwick (17 September 2025)

"Is redeployment a feasible response to contract precarity in early research careers? Converging evidence from three studies"

Conference Presentation: The 29th Annual STI-ENID Conference Presentation 2025, University of Bristol (5 September 2025)

"Development of a Bayesian Thurstonian Model for Analysing Ranking Data From Live Postdoc Recruitment"

Conference Presentation: Metascience 2025, London (30 June 2025)

"How emotions and expectations shape researchers' professional experiences"

Research Professional News (29 January 2025) 

"Narrative CVs risk worsening the biases they aim to redress" 

Research Professional News (29 January 2025)

"Narrative CV: Can telling stories change research culture?"

Video: Your Research; Your Voice

"Here are some of the responses we received - Do they resonate with your experience?"

Video: Your Research: Your Voice (1 October 2024)

"Expectations in Researcher Relationships" An outline of our study

Video: Research Culture Celebration 2024 (30 September 2024)

Extracts of nominations

Conference Presentation: IRCC 2024, University of Warwick (16 September 2024)

"What do early career researchers value in their jobs? A mixed methods study to inform discrete choice experiments on academic job preferences"

Research Article in Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal (8 August 2024)

"Disrupting Academia's Care-Free Narrative"

Research Article in F1000 Research (1 July 2024)

‘What seems to be missing is actual reality’ Why don’t postdocs engage with career-focused professional development?

Research Article: pre-print (28 November 2024)

"Development of a Bayesian Thurstonian Model for Analysing Ranking: Data From Live Postdoc Recruitment" 

Podcast: Careers in Your Ears (KCL) (17 May 2024)

Series 10: Ep6 "Narrative CVs Demystified"

Research Briefs  - Bennett Institute for Public Policy (15 May 2024)

Summaries of postdoc employment practices across European postdocs – Recruitment & Precarity

Conference Paper: The 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI2024) (1 May 2024)

"Exploring the use of Résumé for Research and Innovation Narrative CVs in live postdoc recruitments"