ABSTRACT
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|7 pages
Introduction: How Do You Know You Are Suited to Be a Scientist
section II|64 pages
Skills for a Better Researcher
section III|20 pages
Being a Good Science Research Citizen
section IV|16 pages
Skills for Being an Educator
section V|18 pages
Skills for Realizing Wider Impacts
section VI|15 pages
Leadership Posts
section VII|20 pages
Ethics, Global Development, Policy and the Organisation of Science