In the third post in his series looking at barriers to effective research communication and uptake, Andrew Clappison turns his attention to the drive for evidence based policy and governing evidence…
Your alternative academic identity: learning the rules?
How do we make the ‘right’ career decisions in academia, and build our overall academic identity? I received an email from a colleague and this quote got me thinking: “all…
Cracking the code for effective research communication
Our correspondent Andrew Clappison tells us of the three steps he’s observed that successful research communicators go through, from workshops he’s led. He also outlines four important factors in clear research communication…
Writing styles: a thorny issue
Having completed my PhD using a writing style that took – quite literally – YEARS to get to grips with, I’ve moved onto the thorny issue of writing for journal publication. In…
A round-up of the UK’s REF2014 on social media. How do you measure research?
Earlier this week, on 17th December 2014, the UK’s higher education community awaited the publication of results from the “Research Excellence Framework” (REF). Universities’ core funding is expected to depend…
Tips for presenting and publishing collaborative research, from a scientist
In last week’s blog we discussed undertaking collaborative projects, however what should you do once you have all the wonderful data, have analysed it together and drawn exciting conclusions? Our Science…