Career planning guidance for Early Career Researchers
There are a fair number of 'how to' and 'survival' guides out there for PhD candidates just starting out (or even struggling to finish),...
Guide to the ethics of publishing research
This set of guidelines for best practices in publishing research provides a surprisingly useful and succinct outline of many issues that...
How to construct proportional Venn diagrams
I found this great software for drawing proportional Venn diagrams (with either circles or ellipses for better accuracy). Very easy to...
Free online courses on using data in R!
Ever wanted to learn how to use and manipulate data in 'R' (the 'open source programming language and software environment for...
Creativity and the value of intrinsic versus extrinsic rewards
This TED talk provides a really interesting perspective (Dan Pink "The Puzzle of Motivation). Intrinsic motivators work better than...
How to use positive psychology to boost productivity
This is without a doubt one of my all-time favourite TED talks (Shawn Achor "The happy secret to better work"). I can honestly watch it...
How to improve team productivity through effective leadership
This is a great TED talk (Simon Sinek "Why good leaders make you feel safe")! I love how he talks about the reasons behind WHY some teams...
Academia as a career choice?
I found this TED talk interesting ("How to make hard choices", Ruth Chang). I suspect we all came to our current career paths (in science...
Improving research team engagement
Some ideas for improving research team engagement: Did you know that "highly engaged employees are rare. According to the most recent...