I’d say about once a fortnight I get an email from someone who wants to get into research in some way. They might have a good idea that they think would make a nice research project. They might specifically want to become a researcher themselves. They might be working on something that could do with…
The last couple of days I didn’t manage to write a June Blog at all. The reason being that I was close to submitting a grant and perfecting the argument for that took up all my mental space for writing. I was reflecting on whether there was anything useful I could exratct from the process…
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…
By far the most popular post I wrote this year was this one in April about dealing with rejection as an academic. Likewise, one of my favourite posts which I read was this ‘backwards CV‘ – a phenomenon I could easily replicate with my own list of rejections. Everyone I know who works in academia knows that…
On holiday with my parents last week and talking about my career plans, I became aware of how obscure the content of an academic researcher’s job is to anyone outside. It has galvanized me to write a blog I’ve been meaning to do for a while about what the day to day life of an…
The time has come when I am beginning to turn my attention to thinking about what projects I’ll be engaged in after the Click-East study comes to an end in July 2013.