10 Counter-intuitive insights from an academic writing coach
LSE Impact Blog10 counter-intuitive insights to help you understand and improve your own writing practice.
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5 Strategies for writing in turbulent times
For many academics currently working from home, writing will be a secondary consideration, or even impossible. However, for others writing can be an essential way to maintain a sense of stability and to meaningfully respond to the current situation.
A brief history of research impact: how has impact assessment evolved in the UK and Australia?
Dementia ResearcherKate Williams and Jonathan Grant document the evolution of research impact assessment in the UK and Australia.
A number of freely available tools can help you improve your literature review routine and stay on top of published research
A short sequence of steps and flagged a number of freely available online tools that will help researchers to easily integrate an effective literature review and discovery routine into their work lives.
As academic writing becomes increasingly standardised what counts as an interesting paper?
Academic writing is often criticised for its tendency to be arid and unengaging, but what makes a paper interesting? Find out in this great blog by Dr Manuel Goyanes, shared from the LSE Impact Blog
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.
Dealing with Rejection in Academia
In 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.
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.
Don’t let your academic career determine your every move
Should early career researchers be expected to relocate regularly in order to land a permanent job? In this post for the LSE Impact Blog, Eva Krockow weighs the benefits of an international career against the costs of constant mobility.
Five steps to meeting the challenges of maintaining an appropriate writing voice
Daniel Beaudoin shares five simple steps to keep the “me” in check
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.
Gender equity in health research funding
Research shows women continue to face systematic disadvantages in research funding competitions, publishing, hiring, and promotion. In this blog from the LSE, Zena Sharman considers… ‘What do we know, what do we wish we knew, and where do we go from here?’