Academics should embrace Lo-Fi podcasting
LSE Impact BlogWe love podcasts, they have become an established part of university communications and public engagement activities – could they help you?
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The case against Revise and Resubmit
Professor Christine Williams discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of abolishing the dreaded revise and resubmit, over and over again.
5 Strategies for Hitting a Writing Deadline
To adapt the well-known saying: there are few constants in academia other than death and deadlines. Delia Lloyd presents five strategies for getting writing done when you really need to.
The Unintended Consequences of the pandemic on Non-COVID-19 Research Activities
This post examines which researchers have been most affected by this shift in research prioritise and how it has impacted different types of university
An audible university? The benefit of the Spoken Word
The emerging role of podcasts, audiobooks and text to speech technology in research should be taken seriously – shared from the LSE Impact Blog
Defending a PhD thesis – are you ready for the emotions?
Eva Lantsoght, discusses how both PhD students and supervisors can benefit from understanding emotions underlying a PhD defence
F**k Ups in Social Research: Learning from what goes ‘wrong’
What happens when research goes wrong? How do researchers manage, or fail to manage, & can we learn from ‘failures’? This blog explains
Can research ethics courses prevent publication misconduct?
What ethics training or publishing training have you received? This article shared from the LSE Impact blog discusses new mandatory training developed in India
5 Reasons PhD students should engage with social media
Ema Talam and Prof Jon Fairburn outline five ways in which social media, and in particular Twitter, can make all the difference to PhD research
Common barriers to writing and how to overcome them
Writing a thesis can feel overwhelming, we discuss the common reasons why PhD students tend to avoid writing and counter them.
Against Research Waste (stop replicating findings)
How the Evidence-Based Research paradigm promotes more ethical and innovative research – and stops limited research funding being wasted
Should supervisors be training PhD students on impact?
PhD candidates need to be able to communicate their research to diverse audiences and be prepared for careers outside of Higher Education.