{"id":8401,"date":"2015-12-11T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=8401"},"modified":"2015-11-20T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:54:10","slug":"careers-in-academia-how-to-manage-work-life-balance-with-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/11\/careers-in-academia-how-to-manage-work-life-balance-with-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers in academia: How to manage work-life balance with families"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>If having a family is something you are considering, then chose an employer that will accommodate your needs.<\/h2>\n<p>Frances Aschroft, physiology professor at the University of Oxford, James Hadfield, manager of the\u00a0genomics core facility at the University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Lisa Fox, senior trials manager at the Institute of Cancer Research (who has recently returned to work after having children), tackle the question of how to manage work-life balance whilst having families.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Careers in academia: How to manage work-life balance\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rIw27IjO1Iw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Top tips:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Pick the right employer.<\/li>\n<li>Manage your time wisely.<\/li>\n<li>Financial support.<\/li>\n<li>Plan ahead when considering your career.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Further reading:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/11\/13\/women-in-science-a-returners-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women in science: A returner&#8217;s perspective<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/10\/09\/careers-in-academia-different-options\/\" target=\"_blank\">Careers in academia: The different options<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/11\/careers-in-academia-how-to-get-a-phd-position\/\" target=\"_blank\">Careers in academia: How to get a PhD position<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/11\/careers-in-academia-how-to-avoid-getting-pigeon-holed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Careers in academia: How to avoid getting pigeon-holed<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Aschroft, physiology professor at the University of Oxford, James Hadfield, manager of the\u00a0genomics core facility at the University of Cambridge, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Lisa Fox, senior trials manager at the Institute of Cancer Research (who has recently returned to work after having children), tackle the question of how to manage work-life balance whilst having families.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/11\/careers-in-academia-how-to-manage-work-life-balance-with-families#more-8401\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2015\/12\/11\/careers-in-academia-how-to-manage-work-life-balance-with-families\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,339,1029],"tags":[12,300,1487,156,739,338],"class_list":["post-8401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia-2","category-multimedia","category-njce15","tag-academia","tag-careers","tag-london-2015","tag-naturejobs-career-expo","tag-video","tag-work-life-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}