Managing an Early Career Researcher blog
Research Whisperer Tseen Khoo has been a big fan of the Australian Historical Association’s Early Career Researcher blog since it started in October 2016. She jumped at a recent opportunity to invite...
View ArticleStaying still
This article first appeared in Funding Insight on 7 December 2017 and is reproduced with kind permission of Research Professional. For more articles like this, visit www.researchprofessional.com. For...
View ArticleHow important is it to present at conferences early in one’s career? (Part 1)
Way back when, Julie Gold asked: “How important is it, really, to present papers early in one’s career?” (Research Whisperer’s Facebook page, 3 Feb 2018). I took Julie’s question to be about presenting...
View ArticleHow important is it to present at conferences early in one’s career? (Part 2)
Way back when, Julie Gold asked: “How important is it, really, to present papers early in one’s career?” (Research Whisperer’s Facebook page, 3 Feb 2018). This post is part 2 of the answers received...
View ArticleWhat I like seeing researchers post
‘But I haven’t got anything to say!’ This is one of the most common laments I hear when I’m running social media workshops, particularly from emerging scholars. Researchers – many of whom we know are...
View ArticleDigital portraits for academics
This post started life as a comment on Yammer at RMIT (thanks, Hans). Drawing Hands by M. C. Escher, 1948, (via Wikimedia). Recently, Hans Tilstra was talking about digital twins – online identical...
View ArticleBeing seen
Looking for another role can be an exciting and/or daunting state. It could mean that you’re finishing your PhD, coming to the end of your contract (still waiting to hear if your contract will be...
View ArticleThings it has taken me 8 years to learn
Our good buddy The Thesis Whisperer wrote a fab post on ‘how to run a blog for 8 years and not go insane‘ in 2018. It is a cracker of a post and gives excellent insight into how TW has managed to...
View ArticleWhere I stand: Rewriting the academic bio
This piece was first published on Tamson Pietsch’s blog, Cap and Gown (capandgown.wordpress.com) on 17 July 2019. You can follow Tamson on Twitter at @cap_and_gown. I’ve been thinking a lot lately...
View Article10 days in
I use Twitter a lot. I have used it across my various professional faces for over ten years now. I get invited by other institutions to give masterclasses and invited workshops about creating and...
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Looking like a scientist
Dr Emma Beckett is an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow and Lecturer in Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is also a passionate science communicator,...
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When you choose to re-locate
Dr Donna Weeks is an international relations academic specialising in Japan-Australia relations, Japanese and Australian politics and society and related areas. In April 2016, Donna relocated to Tokyo...
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Being a PhD researcher in a digital world
Carolyn Leslie is a PhD researcher in the Department of Creative Arts and English at La Trobe University, Australia. She is doing a creative-led PhD by writing a novel for young people about girl...
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Working toward generous scholarship – during and after COVID-19
Andrea MacLeod is a professor at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she is the Chair of the Communication Sciences and Disorders department. Her research has focused on the speech and language...
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