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Hard for your future boss to find you

New technologies like job search engines don’t, really, make it easier for employers to find employees, explains Nobel Prize economist to the University Post, who paints a gloomy picture of our current crisis

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Cycling team reaches Northern Cape

Experiment group reaches Nordkapp after fourteen gruelling days of cycling. But it wasn’t over: A battery of tests awaited the hardy cyclists, writes experimenter Katja Kjær in her latest report

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Some PhD students hardly ever talk to supervisors

While most PhD students are in regular communication with their academic supervisors, a small minority of PhDs are in rare or no contact whatsoever

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PhDs want to stay in university

Majority of international PhD students at the University of Copenhagen want to do postdoctoral research or other academic work after finishing their PhD

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Nobel economics prize winner in Copenhagen

Dale T. Mortensen to present lecture on »Markets with Search Friction and the Great Recession« Tuesday where he will also talk about his life in research

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Science PhDs the most excited

Researchers at the Faculty of Science are thrilled to bits, shows survey

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Human and social sciences PhDs work at home, alone

International PhD students in Humanities and Social Sciences spend a large portion of their week working at home, shows survey

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Bike experiment day 7-10: Arctic Circle

The hills in the north of Norway are steeper and the tunnels more dangerous than they imagined, reports medical student Katja Kjær, as fatigue is setting in. But the University of Copenhagen biking experiment continues

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Works best at the office

Omar Faruk shares an office with a fellow PhD student. The designated workspace helps him concentrate

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Human science PhDs have less human contact

They are PhDs in the ‘human’ and ‘social’ sciences, yet they tend to work on their own, survey shows. This is in contrast to natural scientists who work with colleagues. But nearly all international PhDs are motivated and excited

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