Research management

By Anonymous (not verified), 6 October, 2021

Peer-to-peer professional advice for academic research leaders, managers and administrators from universities around the world

By Eliza.Compton, 23 September, 2024

Building trust to support researchers’ mental health

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Principal investigators should know what challenges to trust their research team may face at each stage of a project – from team building to post-project collaboration – so they can focus support effectively
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 26 July, 2024

Embracing disagreement in research co-production

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Co-producing a research project is not all consensus and harmony, so these four tips will guide research collaborators in how to allow and enable disagreements and dissenting voices
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4minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 15 July, 2024

Are you ready to manage?

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Management is rewarding, but managing people is not an easy task. It takes commitment and genuine passion to develop and empower people to achieve their very best, writes Colleen Robinson-Hunte
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4minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 13 June, 2024

Enhance GenAI collaboration for future-proof research support

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Embrace the possibilities of generative AI in research support with a strategic mindset. Ryan Henderson, Ayla Kruis and Tse-Hsiang Chen share their practical framework for successful human-AI collaboration
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 6 June, 2024

THE podcast: bringing an outsider’s eye to primary sources

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What happens when a literary scholar turns her attention to local archives such as inventories and court records? English professor Alexandra Harris talks about writing history, uncovering centuries of silent lives for her new book, and the interdisciplinary power of the humanities
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42minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 26 April, 2024

How to train world-champion cardiologists

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Competition, cooperation and continuity in talent support play integral roles in training and preparing medical professionals, and improving patient care, write three cardiologists
By kiera.obrien, 25 April, 2024

How can we take research from the lab to the marketplace?

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When getting the products of your research into the hands of the people who need them, challenges arise. Vorathin Epin, Ibham Veza, Mazian Mohammad and Abdul Rahim Othman offer advice on how to overcome them
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3minutes
By kiera.obrien, 8 April, 2024

Researchers need support to change the world – here’s how to provide it

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To generate world-changing research, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Research and Innovation Office took on the role of fostering collaboration and allocation of resources to allow their academics to focus completely on their work. Lixin Situ outlines how to provide support.
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 28 March, 2024

THE podcast: what is open access?

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Experts demystify what open access and open research are, tips for best practice, and where the movement and research culture are heading
By Eliza.Compton, 21 March, 2024

Open research: what is it, really?

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Broadly, open research principles aim to foster openness, transparency, replicability and accountability, writes Steven Vidovic. Here, he offers a fresh perspective along with practices to establish trust in research and foster collaborations and future opportunities
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6minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 20 March, 2024

Democratising research through open access journals

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The rise of open access publishing has democratised knowledge dissemination, allowing researchers to share their findings with a global audience. Here, Corinne Guimont offers insights on running OA journals at a higher education institution
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4minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 20 March, 2024

Empower ECRs to commercialise their research

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Early career researchers face many barriers when it comes to translating their research into commercial success, be they a lack of time, being overlooked in favour of more established colleagues or simply not knowing where to start
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 20 March, 2024

Opening doors to knowledge: making data open access

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Making data open access has become a cornerstone of transparent and collaborative research practices. Here, Jon Petters provides a brief guide on how to do it, emphasising accessibility, reproducibility and interoperability
By Eliza.Compton, 18 March, 2024

Using storybooks to share research with a wider audience

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Storybooks offer a collegial method of sharing research findings beyond the peer-reviewed journals of academia – and putting it in the hands of the people who can best use the information, write Dominic Petronzi, Dean Fido and Rebecca Petronzi
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4minutes
By kiera.obrien, 15 March, 2024

As librarians, we should embrace open research

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Open access represents a new opportunity, and librarians are ideally placed to implement it. Nazarbayev University’s library team offers their advice
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 16 January, 2024

Why press releases are a waste of your comms team’s time

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Most universities will track press release output as part of overall communications metrics – but, asks Kylie Ahern, have you considered other ways to generate media coverage, awareness of your brand or better relationships with journalists?
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 15 January, 2024

Driving change through knowledge: how to increase policy impact

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Academic research is invaluable in informing governments and leaders so they can make decisions that affect us all. Here, Yaryna Basystyuk offers advice on how to make your research count in the policy world
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3minutes
By kiera.obrien, 12 January, 2024

Science communication tips for marketers

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When research reaches a broader audience, it improves the society we live in and inspires the next generation of scientists. Iris Lai offers her advice on engaging the public with your work
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3minutes
By kiera.obrien, 10 January, 2024

How to build trust as a research supervisor

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Building trust is a crucial foundation of the supervisor-supervisee relationship. Kingsley Omeihe argues it’s a two-way process
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3minutes
By kiera.obrien, 8 January, 2024

What does a research supervisor do?

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Research supervisors must learn to be authentic mentors, as well as sharing their experience and knowledge. Robert Crammond reflects on his time in the role
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 4 December, 2023

THE podcast: how to do public engagement

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What is best practice for universities’ public engagement? How do you enlist the public in your research? And how do you keep them interested in the long term? Two 2022 THE Awards winners share their insights – from their experiences tracking Covid and decoding Dickens
By Eliza.Compton, 30 November, 2023

Love and money: why the search for funding is like romance

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Funding is a relationship of sorts. You and your research project funder will enter into a finite symbiosis. It’s a joyful, exciting, uncomfortable and occasionally scary co-dependency, writes Laura Berrisford
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 14 November, 2023

HARKing forward: an argument for a polarising research practice

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Hypothesising (or proposing) after results are known is seen as going against scientific principles. Here, however, Yehuda Barach argues for its use in the name of unhindered enquiry and discovery when the scholarship is transparent and properly reported
By Eliza.Compton, 13 November, 2023

How to lose a grant in 10 ways

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Want your funding application to be rejected? Have we got some advice for you. But, seriously, don’t do these things and you might just find your perfect grant match
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