Rather than attempt a single blog covering all aspects of grant-writing, Duncan Astle and I are continuing our blog series of advice to newly-fledged researchers by focusing on the challenges of costing a new grant. Costing a grant means working out exactly where money will be spent, and being realistic about what it is going…
On 22nd December 2017, Spectrum published an article with the headline: “Partnerships with people on the spectrum yield rich research insights.” We had agreed to be interviewed for this article. We felt it was an opportunity to inform Spectrum’s readers about the scope and importance of the roles autistic people may play in autism research.…
The exceptional Duncan Astle and I continue our intermittent blog series on academic life today, this time focusing on the stressful post-PhD employment scene. There are a number of options for those who want to stay in academia post-PhD, all highly competitive and with unique stressors. Today, we’re talking about one of the most common…
A short message to wish you all a fantastic holiday season. Whatever you are up to, we hope you are feeling well and happy, and looking forward to what 2018 holds.
Thank you, as ever, for all you’ve done to support the growing DART team in the last year. It is MUCH appreciated.
This is the latest in a semi-regular (trying to be regular) blog series, with the inestimable Duncan Astle. The practical skills of being a good scientist are rarely taught but are vital. This is the subject for our series of blogs, (tagged on the DART pages with Insight Into Research) and this time we are…
Myself and Duncan Astle (he of the substantial intellect and even more substantial quiff) have been putting our minds to a series of blog posts, attempting to help the fledgling academic get to grips with some of their new professional duties. This week it is a real classic – how to supervise a PhD student.…
This blog post was written by three of my students, Bérengère, Kirsty, and Maggi, who have all recently completed surveys as part of their research projects. All in, they managed to accumulate more than 600 participants, which is absolutely fantastic! As an extra thank you and to acknowledge and reflect on our work within the…
This is my second post written with Duncan Astle, a colleague of exceptional integrity and thoughtfulness, ideally qualified for this particular piece. It is a follow-up to our previous joint post about peer-review. We now turn our attention to the response to reviewers. As with the role of reviewer, junior scientists submitting their work as authors are…
I’m back in the office after my usual annual pilgimage to the International Meeting for Autism Research (aka IMFAR) which took place this year in San Francisco. As usual, it was inspiring to be among so many researchers and, increasingly, autistic people (including autistic researchers, of course) gathered together to share their work. The quality of debate…
This month’s blog is written by me with Duncan Astle, a colleague whose intellectual brilliance is only exceeded by his charm. Peer review is a lynch-pin of the scientific process and bookends every scientific project. But despite the crucial importance of the peer review process in determining what research gets funded and published, in our experience PhD students and…