Networking is an important part of your job search preparation, whether you are staying in academia or transitioning to industry, and the main way that graduate students add new, external contacts to ...

Most of us in higher education go to conferences to do our networking and professional development. Add that to the list of things Covid-19 has ruined this year, at least for those of us who enjoy ...

With the coming academic year, I am hopeful, looking forward to connecting with colleagues again through conferences. I enjoyed reading Kim’s essay on “Conference Travel Hesitancy,” which did give me ...

Imagine being a medical researcher invited to present at an eye-health conference in London. You arrive to find that the other delegates are specialists in entirely separate disciplines, such as ...

Recently, I accompanied my wife to the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) conference. If there is not a term for one half of an academic couple traveling with their partner to ...

Academic conferences must be the oldest scam in South African universities. A conference is supposed to be an assembly where two things happen: you present groundbreaking research on a topic for your ...