Resources for mid-career scientists

How do you define ‘mid-career’ in academia? Funders, governing bodies and working scientists debate a vexed question.

Many scientists switch sectors mid-career and often face life-changing challenges at the same time. These include illness, divorce and caring responsibilities. How do they cope?

Trying to achieve a perfect work–life balance is a misguided strategy at the mid-career stage, Julie Gould discovers.

A philosopher and a behavioural economist suggest some remedies to tackle the “muddle of the middle”.

What is it like to be a mid-career scientist? Five researchers field questions from junior colleagues, and describe what they wished they’d known at their age.

Mid-career scientists need targeted training and development from funders and employers. Some are starting to provide it.

A wave of departures, many of them by mid-career scientists, calls attention to widespread discontent in universities.