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ISBN-10 :  1315394404 

ISBN-13 :  9781315394404

Author:   John R. Helliwell 

Being, or wanting to become, a scientist requires academic training in the science subjects. To succeed as a research scientist and educator requires specific as well as general skills. Skills for a Scientific Life provides insight into how to be successful. This career book is intended for potential entrants, early career and mid-career scientists for a wide range of science disciplines. Features Offers advice on specific skills for research article writing, grant writing, and refereeing as well as teaching undergraduates and supervising postgraduates Provides helpful case studies resulting from the author’s teaching and mentoring experience Contributes a special emphasis on skills for realizing wider impacts such as sustainability and gender equality Presents several chapters on leadership skills both in academe and in government service Concludes with an emphasis on the author’s overall underpinning of the topics from the point of view of ethics

Skills for a Scientific Life 1st Table of contents:

SECTION I Introduction: How Do You Know You Are Suited to Be a Scientist
Chapter 1 How to Undertake That Very Important Postdoctoral Research
SECTION II Skills for a Better Researcher
Chapter 2 How to Recognise a Good Idea
Chapter 3 How to Make Significant Discoveries
Chapter 4 How to Write a Successful Grant Proposal
Chapter 5 How to Assess Research Risks
Chapter 6 How to Set Up, Lead and Care for Your Research Team
Chapter 7 How to Publish One’s Results
Chapter 8 How to Communicate Your Results
Chapter 9 How to Manage Your Time
Chapter 10 How to Use a SWOT Analysis to Good Effect
Chapter 11 How to Use Social Media for Your Work
Chapter 12 How to Avoid the Travails of a Research Manager (or the of Ending Up Not Doing Science)
Chapter 13 How to Coexist with Competitors
Chapter 14 How to Deal with Criticism
Chapter 15 How, and When, to Effect Collaborations
Chapter 16 How to Hold to a Vision Including Avoiding Politics and Carrying on Regardless of Managerialism
SECTION III Being a Good Science Research Citizen
Chapter 17 How to Referee Grant Proposals
Chapter 18 How to Referee Science Articles
Chapter 19 How to Write a Balanced Book Review
Chapter 20 How to Be a Science Research Editor
Chapter 21 How to Chair Meetings
SECTION IV Skills for Being an Educator
Chapter 22 How to Teach Your Subject to Undergraduates
Chapter 23 How to Supervise PhD Postgraduate Students
Chapter 24 How to Be a Good Mentor
SECTION V Skills for Realizing Wider Impacts
Chapter 25 How to Reach Out to Wider Audiences and Explain Your Research
Chapter 26 How to Handle Your Inventions, Patents and Services to Industry
Chapter 27 How to Help Improve Gender Equality
SECTION VI Leadership Posts
Chapter 28 How Do You Know If You Really Want to Be Head of a Department
Chapter 29 How to Lead Your Learned Society If You Are Elected as Its President
Chapter 30 How to Lead Your Research Community as an Instrument Scientist
SECTION VII ethics, Global Development, Policy and the Organisation of Science
Chapter 31 How to Retain Your Own Peace of Mind: The Ethical Aspects
Chapter 32 How to Make Your Role a Global One
Chapter 33 How to Make Your Input into Science Policy
Chapter 34 How Would You Change the Organisation of Global Science If You Were in Charge for One Day
SECTION VIII Appendices

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