Beating the odds to secure a permanent contract
EditorSix early-career researchers offer advice on how to secure a permanent contract in academia, and then make the most of it.
Dissemination
Become a NHS Leadership Academy action learning set facilitator
This is a great opportunity to help the NHS graduate trainee scheme whilst also gaining a valuable skill, which is transferable to your own work.
Becoming a data steward
In this post for the LSE Impact Blog – Shalini Kurapati introduces the concept of data stewarding. Drawing on her own experience, she describes how data stewarding has developed an important role in delivering open science
Blog – Life in the Doldrums (getting the wind back in your sails).
Allyson Rogers writes about how she found her research stagnating in the doldrums and how she got the wind back into her sails.
Blog – PhD Fear (a personal account)
How can you deal with PhD Fear, this great blog from Thesis Whisperer is by Elaine Campbell a Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School,
Building a culture of research impact
Louise Shaxson writes for the LSE Impact Blog suggesting developing a culture of engagement and collaboration, is just as important to achieving research impact.
Bump in the Road or Disaster? BACE Inhibitors Worsen Cognition
Merck shook the field with news that people on verubecestat scored worse than those on placebo – find out more in this post from AlzForum
Call for Abstracts for Clinical Trials in Alzheimer’s Disease Conference 2019
Adam SmithThe CTAD Conference is now open for registrations and abstract submissions – deadline 17th June 2019
Calling all PhD students and postdocs – Could you host summer student?
Want to make a difference and support a young person from disadvantaged backgrounds gain an insight into research?
Clinical Research MOOC
The ‘Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research’ online course starts on 11 February. In this course you will explore clinical research – its challenges and its huge benefits to modern healthcare.
Clinical Trial Design Is A Two-Way Street
CoLAB 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.
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.