Communicating your research in plain language
Dementia ResearcherResearchers share personal stories behind their science at Berlin Science Week, exploring how storytelling changes the way they communicate their work.
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What Makes Research Interesting? Five Dimensions That Matter
LSE Impact BlogWhat makes academic work interesting? Manuel Goyanes explores five key traits that help papers stand out, inspire readers and influence the field.
The Global Caring Crisis
Exploriong care systems in different economies across the world, questioning why domestic work carried out chiefly by women and girls is largely underpaid
Three-quarters of researchers say yes to meeting-free weeks
Nature Careers BlogRespondents to a Nature poll largely agree that meeting free weeks… would be practical, read to reveal how much time it would save them.
Top tips for getting your science out there
Craig Cormick explains how scientists can get their arguments across to members of the public in this post shared from the Nature Careers Blog site.
Four principles for practising and evaluating co-production
A new working definition of co-produced research and suggest how different elements of successfully co-produced knowledge can be understood and evaluated.
Orderly desk, orderly mind
A tidy desk, a clear mind: discover how one researcher’s compulsive order fuels creative thinking and helps their lab tackle unexpected research themes.
The State of Open Data 2019 – Key issues for researchers
Mark Hahnel for the LSE Impact Blog presents findings from the largest continuous survey of academic attitudes to open data
Who innovates in social science research?
Researchers face risks when using unconventional methods. Koppman and Leahey explore how identity, affiliation, and strategy help navigate tradition to innovate
How to approach an inter-disciplinary thesis
Thesis WhispererUniversities are often very well set up for individual disciplines, but if you don’t fit firmly into one of these, you can easily find yourself marginalised. How should you go about doing interdisciplinary research?
3 lessons from industry that I’m taking back to academia
After 3 years in pharma, a researcher returns to academia, finding industry experience invaluable despite early warnings it might hinder future opportunities
Why I think junior researchers really benefit from datathon events
Blog by Dr Sarah Bauermeister shared from the UK Dementias Platform website, discussing their work on datathons and how they can support and develop younger data scientists in dementia research.