How to get media coverage for your research
Your paper has been accepted, reviewed and published. Now you need to get it talked about by journalists, the public, your peers and funders.Pippa Whitehouse recalls seeking advice and media training ...
27 Feb 202021min
How to bounce back from a bruising peer-review or paper rejection
It's important not to take reviewers' comments personally, even if you feel they have misunderstood the science, Adam Levy discovers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
21 Feb 202015min
How to write a top-notch paper
Getting published for the first time is a crucial career milestone, but how does a set of experiments evolve into a scientific paper?In the first episode of this four-part podcast series about writing...
13 Feb 202018min
How apartheid's legacy can still cast a shadow over doctoral education in South Africa
PhD programmes in "the rainbow nation" mostly lead to academic careers, but reform is needed to boost collaboration and integration, higher education experts tell Julie Gould.It's 25 years since since...
17 Dec 201914min
The PhD thesis and how to boost its impact
The thesis is a central element of how graduate students are assessed. But is it time for an overhaul? Julie Gould finds out.How do you decide whether or not somebody is a fully trained researcher? Ja...
6 Dec 201912min
Team PhD
Scientific research is not the endeavour of a single person. It requires a team of people. How can this be better reflected in graduate student training, asks Julie Gould.Is science ready for "Team Ph...
28 Nov 201915min
It's time to fix the "one size fits all" PhD
Julie Gould asks six higher education experts if it's now time to go back to the drawing board and redesign graduate programmes from scratch.Suzanne Ortega, president of the US Council of Graduate Sch...
21 Nov 201912min
Too many PhDs, too few research positions
Students need to be clear about their reasons for pursuing a PhD and the career options open to them, Julie Gould discovers.In 2015, labour economist Paula Stephan told an audience of early career res...
18 Nov 201910min
