Clinical Trial Design Is A Two-Way Street
Dementia ResearcherCoLAB brings clinical research teams and external partners — including patients, study coordinators, nurses, and physicians — face-to-face for a dress rehearsal of a clinical trial protocol.
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Communicating your research in plain language doesn’t diminish your work
Springer Nature Storytellers hosted an event at Berlin Science Week in which five researchers on the front lines of discovery shared true stories about life behind the science.
Communicating your research toolkit – The Health Foundation
Want to communicate your health research in a better way in 2018? This resource from The Health Foundation is the tool you need.
Coping strategies for full time workers turned PhD students
Thesis WhispererHave you given up a great full time job to do your PhD? Some of you might have done this fairly recently – what changes can you expect?
Coronavirus diaries: give your brain a break from science busywork, it deserves it
Nature Careers BlogIf you can, escape the plate-spinning frenzy of online meetings by going on holiday, ideally for two weeks, says John Tregoning in this blog from Nature Careers
Costing your research
What costs should you be considering on your next grant application
De-stuffing your writing: or the The bumper list of words and phrases you could delete to make your writing more concise
This post is by Dr Katherine Firth, research fellow at Latrobe University. Katherine blogs over at Research Voodoo. As you probably already know Inger, Shaun and I are writing a book about Academic Writing Trouble and How to Fix It that distills the advice you would get if you took us out for lunch and asked…
Dealing with Rejection in Academia
LSE Impact BlogIn this repost from the LSE Impact Blog, Staci Zavattaro, reflects on rejection in academia and gives 6 tips on how to manage the inevitable rejections that are part of academic life.
Dementia Researcher has a WhatsApp Group
Adam SmithWe’ve created a new WhatsApp support group, just for you – chat with your colleagues, get help, share news in a safe place.
Designing ‘attention points’ in academic work: Four principles for improving tables, graphs, charts and diagrams.
Four top-level design principles to consider when constructing tables, charts, graphs, or diagrams.
Discover the NIHR Faculty and how it can help your career
The National Institute for Health Research Faculty is the collective term for the people we support to lead and deliver health research, and to train as the next generation of health researchers. This is a diverse group of people – including academic researchers, operational delivery professionals and those training as future applied health researchers. The…