PhD students regularly stress of selecting the “right” topic. But it is not something that you can know when you start. The important thing is to recognise that each change you make to your original idea is likely to increase the time it takes to complete your PhD. Today, I was talking to some people […]
Are You Really Networking?
Networking is essential to career success. Yet, we often overlook the easy networking opportunities right in front of us – learning about and knowing the people you are studying with. Transcript: Are you really networking? I think a lot of us think that we’re networking when we go to events, and we talk to people. […]
Thinking about Writing Your CV
What kind of CV do you have? Is it one for industry? One for academia? Do you have many? So, if you were doing a CV writing course, what would you include? I’ve had a bit of a discussion with some early career researchers and representatives of early career researchers, and what they’ve talked about […]
Connect – Book Review
A great book to help people get started on LinkedIn. I’ve got a LinkedIn program for LinkedIn called “LinkedIn for Research Translation”. It’s based on this book Connect by Kylie Chown, and Jane Anderson. I recently reread it using James Clear’s 20 pages a day technique. I can highly recommend that, and I’ve talked about […]
Four Tips to Increase Citations and Industry Uptake of Your Work
Want to increase the citations of your work? Try: 1. Long descriptive titles. 2. Promoting it on social media. 3. Let the authors you cite know about your work. 4. Write multi-author papers. 5. Repeat! Transcript: I work a lot with academics, and I work a lot with academics trying to connect with industry. One […]
Financial Management Accounting for In-kind
Accounting and managing in-kind contributions is one of the hardest things that a research centre manager has to do. There’s no easy solution – but you could try regular updates in meetings. Transcript: Just finished doing the webinar on financial management and budget setting for researchers. One of the questions that came up was “How […]
Six Ways to Increase Your Resilience
We are told we need to be resilient and that we need to develop our resilience, but how? Here I cover 6 strategies: 1. Catch your thoughts. 2. Analyse your thoughts. 3. Be mindful. 4. Be grateful. 5. Have a diverse life. 6. Know your values and live in alignment with them. Transcript: As a […]
Six Steps to Building Your Website
Building a website is easy – but there’s lots that might confuse so… In six steps: 1. Choose a domain name (your name is easiest). 2. Register with an all-in-one provider (they’ll register the name, host the website and provide a content management system). 3. Decide on what you will cover/focus on. Just research? Or […]
Social Media in Research and Why LinkedIn is Best
There are lots of social media options available these days. The popular ones being Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Academics have tended to use Twitter, but I think LinkedIn is better in many situations. Hi there! Today, I thought I’d take a closer look at a section from the Connect the Docs. The book that […]
Having Tough Conversations with Your Supervisor
No matter how well your PhD progresses, no matter how good a relationship you (think you) have with your supervisor(s), at some point there’ll be a need for a tough conversation. It could be about publication authorship. It could be about experimental design. It could be about grant writing, or thesis submission or leaving academia. […]