Finishing your PhD is no guarantee of being able to find a job. Check out these job hunting tips for PhD students to help prepare you for when you do finish. 1. Start Early At the start of your PhD the end can seem all too far away. You may find however that it’s upon… Read More »
Tacit knowledge is the internalised ‘know-how’ that everyone picks up from working in a particular field. Turning this into explicit knowledge usable by everyone is fundamental to the creative process. How can we use an appreciation tacit knowledge to help our science? Japanese Beginnings In the early 1990s observers were beginning to wonder why… Read More »
Project management can help ensure that a project is completed successfully within the time and resources available. Not all projects are suited to project management, however, and science is particularly vulnerable to having creativity and innovation stifled by too much management. This post looks at what project management is and when it might be appropriate… Read More »
Publicity? I think it’s fair to say that you think that the work you do is important, interesting, and that others around you would do well to know about and support it. That being the case, the question then is, how can you best let people know that: a) the work you do is going… Read More »
Herding Cats Scientists by personality, by training and by experience tend to be individualists and sole operators. They worked on their own project as a PhD student, they worked hard and made sacrifices to get their own grant or research fellowship, and once they’ve set up their own lab, they understandably want to do things… Read More »