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Skills for a Scientific Life
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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.
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- 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
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Subject Index
ACA, see American Crystallographic Association (ACA)
Actions, affirmative, 123
Acta Crystallographica, 25, 33, 47, 48, 77, 85
Advanced Photon Source, Chicago, Illinois, 146
Adventurous Research Fund, The Wellcome Trust, 71
Advisors, to parents and children, xii
ALBA, Spanish Synchrotron Radiation Source, 91, 92, 137
Altmetrics (Alternative metrics), 37
American Crystallographic Association (ACA), 13, 40, 48, 138
American Institute of Physics, 77
Analytical services, 119
Applause, 96, 97
Apollo moon programme (USA), 129
Assertiveness training, 173
Athena SWAN (Science Womensā Academic Network), xi, 107, 123ā125
Atomic bomb, 145
Audiences, types of, 6, 111ā114, 156
Australian Synchrotron, 67
Balliol College, 60, 61
BBSRC, see Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Beamtime Application Panel, 91, 137
Biological Structures Group of the BCA, 102
Biophysics, xi, 2, 56, 77, 101
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), xii...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Author
- Epigraph
- SECTION I Introduction: How Do You Know You Are Suited to Be a Scientist
- SECTION II Skills for a Better Researcher
- SECTION III Being a Good Science Research Citizen
- SECTION IV Skills for Being an Educator
- SECTION V Skills for Realizing Wider Impacts
- SECTION VI Leadership Posts
- SECTION VII Ethics, Global Development, Policy and the Organisation of Science
- SECTION VIII Appendices
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index