What counts as data in qualitative research?
LSE Impact BlogQualitative data is more than transcripts. Explore how silence, setting and fieldnotes become evidence, and what AI may miss when research is reduced to text.
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How to get the most out of an informational interview
Nature Careers BlogInformal meetings can help you to explore new career opportunities, but there is a knack to getting them right. Shared from Nature Careers
Lived Experience Survey Design
National Centre for Research MethodsLearn how to design ethical, accessible surveys with people with lived experience, from co-production and consent to sensitive questions, testing and support.
Seven tips for a graceful lab exit
Dementia ResearcherLeaving the lab? 7 tips to organise samples, secure data, share knowledge and make your move smoother for everyone. Shared from Nature Careers
Science-backed tips on how to avoid distractions
Struggling to stay focused in the lab? Attention researchers offer some advice in this article shared from the Nature Careers Blog.
Industry applications are going nowhere. How do I stand out?
From Nature Careers – A postdoc researcher trying to move into an industry role wants help gaining traction and making it past the first interview stage.
Rejection in academia is structural not personal
Academic rejection often reflects scarcity, chance and structural pressures—not personal failure. It’s time to change how academia talks about it.
Three tips to avoid AI image mistakes in science
AI tools can be useful for brainstorming and creating graphics, but they can introduce errors. If you’re going to use them, here’s how to avoid problems.
When drug discovery fails: scientists share their frustrations with the process
In clinical trials, there are many times (and ways) a therapeutic can come up short. Tammy Worth writes for the Nature Careers blog.
Thinking about your thesis title
Frances Brodsky shows how fiction writing can sharpen scientific writing, using mystery novels to build narrative, focus and perseverance.
Scientists & journalists must work together to protect research
Science sleuth Lonni Besançon realizes that he has sometimes misunderstood what the media want from him and his researcher colleagues.
How to jump off science’s productivity treadmill
Why do scientists avoid the work that matters most A Nature Careers podcast explores procrastination fear identity and life choices in research