Academic research can be intense, stimulating, and rewarding. But it is important to know that a research career involves many activities besides research. Scientists spend their time writing ...

Students needn't pursue a career in academics to understand the innate value of academic research. It's an invaluable skill — they'll need it. With the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tools, there has ...

Until recently, AI’s role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarise a paper, clean up a dataset or draft an abstract. Researchers were still in charge of the thinking. That ...

This article is part of a series on academic freedom where leading academics from around the world write on the state of free speech and inquiry in their region. Over the last two decades, industry ...