An edition of Skills for a scientific life
(2016)
Skills for a scientific life
by John R. Helliwell
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Skills for a scientific life
2017, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
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Table of Contents
Introduction : How do you know you are suited to be a scientist.
How to undertake that very important postdoctoral research --
Skills for a better researcher.
How to recognise a good idea ;
How to make significant discoveries ;
How to write a successful grant proposal ;
How to assess research risks ;
How to set up, lead and care for your research team ;
How to publish one's results ;
How to communicate your results ;
How to manage your time ;
How to use a SWOT analysis to good effect ;
How to use social media for your work ;
How to avoid the travails of a research manager (or the pitfall of ending up not doing science) ;
How to coexist with competitors ;
How to deal with criticism ;
How, and when, to effect collaborations ;
How to hold to a vision including avoiding politics and carrying on regardless of managerialism --
Being a good science research citizen.
How to referee grant proposals ;
How to referee science articles ;
How to write a balanced book review ;
How to be a science research editor ;
How to chair meetings --
Skills for being an educator.
How to teach your subject to undergraduates ;
How to supervise PhD postgraduate students ;
How to be a good mentor --
Skills for realizing wider impacts.
How to reach out to wider audiences and explain your research ;
How to handle your inventions, patents and services to industry ;
How to help improve gender equality --
Leadership posts.
How do you know if you really want to be head of a department ;
How to lead your learned society if you are elected as its president ;
How to lead your research community as an instrument scientist --
Ethics, global development, policy and the organisation of science.
How to retain your own piece of mind: the ethical aspects ;
How to make your role a global one ;
How to make your input into science policy ;
How would you change the organisation of global science if you were in charge for one day.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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