This guest blogpost is from Phil Ward, winner of the ARMA award for Technological Innovation and Application. He is author of Research Fundermentals and the person behind @frootle. His writing is both informative and entertaining…
Written by Guest Blogger
This blogpost gives the views of the author, and not those of jobs.ac.uk or the University of Warwick. You could be one of our guest bloggers! If you would like to write for us, then please get in touch: career@jobs.ac.uk
Interdisciplinary and international research: a local case
This guest post from Álvaro López-Franco describes his research which is both interdisciplinary and international in its scope. What led him to become an interdisciplinary researcher and why is an international perspective suited to his work?…
The role of the media in Muslim-majority countries
In this guest blogpost we hear about a forthcoming event in November, to which scholars are also very welcome to submit papers for panel discussion by 31 July 2016. Hosted by London’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations…
5 reasons why I read scientific blog posts (or why to blog your science!)
In this excellent blogpost from Damien Debecker we hear about what researchers might gain from reading scientific blogs, but also glean some ideas about why and how to write about science in blogs.
Norway series. How to fight off a barbarian invasion!
We’re privileged to hear once again from our regular guest blogger, Kate Maxwell. Kate writes about themes of collaboration in research from Norway, and in this post she sheds light on some of the dangers of cross-disciplinary collaboration, sharing Norwegian researchers’ responses to them…
Norway series. Collaboration: a (sixth-century) barbarian invasion?
Guest blogger Kate Maxwell writes about themes of collaboration in research from Norway, commenting on the reported remarks of a Norwegian minister, a UK vice-chancellor and the work of a Harvard professor…
How do you find conferences to attend? Some useful sources
In this guest blogpost from Zoe Bulaitis, English Literature PhD Student, we hear about places that you can look for academic events and conferences to attend. Zoe tells us about what she’s found on conference databases and on Twitter…
Goodbye yellow brick road! Putting the method into teaching research methodology
In this guest post by Dr Ewan Ingleby of Teesside University in the UK, we hear about how we might approach teaching and learning about research methods. Ewan is a postgraduate research tutor and the post has a useful list of academic references at the end, and…
Don’t get mad, get better: A story of receiving peer review comments
No matter what stage of research or academia you are at in your career, getting published is a tough process. In fact, a majority of time, we as researchers are…
How to draft a research grant application
Most of my business involves helping academics to write better research grant applications. Prospects are good because most academics, when they try to write a grant application, write completely the wrong kind of document to solve the main problem that every grant application has to solve. This post explains…