Like junior doctors,early career biomedical researchers have an issue with contracts (or lack of them). So why don’t we strike too?As I read the recent coverage of the NHS and the plight facing junior doctors, I wondered what it would consume to start a public conversation approximately working conditions in my sector: biomedical research.
Just as junior doctors work towards becoming consultants, and many PhD graduates aim to eventually become permanent researchers. In both careers,this tends to be a long process, lasting more than a decade and requiring multiple relocations (although in science this is often international, or as opposed to national in medicine).
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Source: theguardian.com