Michael Alvarez, MA

Search Action Plan

An Action Plan serves as a framework, providing a consistent, reliable context for organizing your personal professional development plans. These steps include: Self-Exploration Identifying Options Targeting Implementation


Michael Alvarez, MA

A Question of Supply and Demand

Simply having a PhD may not be enough — you need to marry scientific expertise with the right skills.   During the past few decades, the demand in the labour market for scientists and engineers educated to doctoral level has been a matter of considerable uncertainty and debate. Some say tha...


Michael Alvarez, MA

The inside track from academia and industry: Follow the money

Borders no longer constrain the flow of capital, ideas and talent to emerging centres of excellence.   Global economics is changing and science is changing along with it - a trend that has implications for everyone from students to industry researchers to policy-makers in federal and local ...


Michael Alvarez, MA

Time for a change

Universities, businesses, students and employees all need to rethink they way they approach training.   Advancing science through academic research isn't inherently at cross-purposes with the scientific trainee's career progression — but sometimes it seems that way. There is an inherent t...


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