Skills for a scientific life
By: John R. Helliwell
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781498768757
Subjects: Social aspects; Science; Scientists; Vocational guidance; Teams in the workplace
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : How do you know you are suited to be a scientist.; title: How to undertake that very important postdoctoral research --; title: Skills for a better researcher.; title: How to recognise a good idea ;; title: How to make significant discoveries ;; title: How to write a successful grant proposal ;; title: How to assess research risks ;; title: How to set up, lead and care for your research team ;; title: How to publish one's results ;; title: How to communicate your results ;; title: How to manage your time ;; title: How to use a SWOT analysis to good effect ;; title: How to use social media for your work ;; title: How to avoid the travails of a research manager (or the pitfall of ending up not doing science) ;; title: How to coexist with competitors ;; title: How to deal with criticism ;; title: How, and when, to effect collaborations ;; title: How to hold to a vision including avoiding politics and carrying on regardless of managerialism --; title: Being a good science research citizen.; title: How to referee grant proposals ;; title: How to referee science articles ;; title: How to write a balanced book review ;; title: How to be a science research editor ;; title: How to chair meetings --; title: Skills for being an educator.; title: How to teach your subject to undergraduates ;; title: How to supervise PhD postgraduate students ;; title: How to be a good mentor --; title: Skills for realizing wider impacts.; title: How to reach out to wider audiences and explain your research ;; title: How to handle your inventions, patents and services to industry ;; title: How to help improve gender equality --; title: Leadership posts.; title: How do you know if you really want to be head of a department ;; title: How to lead your learned society if you are elected as its president ;; title: How to lead your research community as an instrument scientist --; title: Ethics, global development, policy and the organisation of science.; title: How to retain your own piece of mind: the ethical aspects ;; title: How to make your role a global one ;; title: How to make your input into science policy ;; title: How would you change the organisation of global science if you were in charge for one day.