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Lessons learned through failure

Shared Blog from the ECRC

This is how I chose to tell my colleagues on Twitter that I’d been awarded a prestigious ESRC New Investigator Grant [1]. People congratulated me and ‘liked’ my post – it looked like a fantastic success story. However, I’m sure there were many (particularly other early career researchers) who read my post in dismay –  I certainly remember the feeling of personal failure when others had posted something similar in the past. So, I quickly decided to follow up my initial post to show that every success story has a (often long) back story…

To read the rest of this blog visit: https://blog.esrc.ac.uk/2018/10/24/lessons-learned-through-failure/ [2]