Grant application essentials
Expert advice on how to get the details of a grant submission right, and planning for "curveball questions" if you are asked to deliver an oral presentation:Peter Gorsuch, Chief Editor at Nature Resea...
18 Jan 201921min
How to plan a successful grant application
It's best to start planning for a grant application at least 9-12 months before the submission deadline, says Anne Marie Coriat, Head of UK and Europe Research Landscape at Wellcome Trust, London. She...
11 Jan 201920min
Inside the NIH grant review process
In this first episode of a six-part weekly series about funding, Julie Gould outlines the US National Institutes of Health's (NIH) grant review process and the extent to which reviewers evaluating the...
4 Jan 201925min
Salary and job satisfaction in science: voices from the front line
Chris Woolston and Julie Gould discuss the findings of Nature's 2018 salary and job satisfaction survey, which found that despite some common concerns about pay, promotion prospects, bullying and disc...
3 Dec 201820min
Women in physics, women in Africa
Alexandra Olaya-Castro describes how she draws on experiences she faced earlier in her career to support women and colleagues from minority groups in her current role as professor of physics at Univer...
9 Nov 201820min
A winning team of innovators who promote women in science
The Association of Hungarian Women in Science (NATE) has won Nature Research's inaugural Innovation in Science Award, one of two global prizes launched in partnership with The Estée Lauder Companies a...
31 Okt 201814min
Lean PhD programmes, and a conversation with Lego Grad Student
Lego Grad Student is the alter ego of an early career researcher whose schadenfreude-laden Twitter posts "capture an adult's distress in adult education." He tells Jack Leeming how a childhood love of...
23 Okt 201823min
With a PhD you can do anything
UK careers consultant Sarah Blackford describes how a "SWOT analysis" of your skills can identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in your career roadmap. Sarah's sound advice might we...
5 Okt 201814min
