I am really pleased to have just joined the British Ecological Society Returners to Science mentoring scheme - as a senior mentor. This is going to be a fantastic opportunity to share my experience of being out of academia (in my case for an extended period) and - being lucky enough - to come back to it.
Mentoring has a crucial role to play in this - and you'll see featured heavily on this website. We lack a range of role models which encourage people from different ethnicities, cultural backgrounds and with a wider range of experiences to take up, or continue a career in academia, and more generally, in science. There are a lot of people writing on this topic at present, Athene Donald's co-hosted blog - Occam's Typewriter, gives great insight into the challenges that women face in academia. I also wrote a post on the topic for Rapid Ecology. If you have suggestions or tips for returners to science, please contact me.
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