Our conpher expert contributor is Dr Laura Norci, a highly respected life and career coach who worked many years in research and university as lecturer, tutor and mentor. Am I happy with my academic job? There are indications that job Read more…
EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation & Research has shared her thoughts and strategy for Europe’s response to COVID19 with conpher. Commissioner Gabriel underlines the success of moving forward is based on cooperation amongst European Member States and Read more…
Everyone gets stuck from time to time. You may be preparing your article for submission, but your to-do-list is reaching out and pulling you in! Faced with pulling together your research and started to write, but nothing flows….? Each member Read more…
We would like to get your thoughts on a recently published article “The costly prestige ranking of scholarly journals” has just been published by Bård Smedsrød, Professor at the Department of Medical Biology and Leif Longva, Academic Librarian at UiT, Read more…
A few of the conpher team have been in a dilemma recently that maybe you recognise. Determining whether to publish their article in a generalist “mega journal” or select a more subject-specific journal. In setting out to find a solution Read more…
Members of the conpher team regularly publish research articles in their chosen fields. They do this, like everyone else in academia, to have their findings, calculations, data and theories widely read by colleagues and peers around the world. But is Read more…
Our conpher expert contributor is Dr Hernan Biava, a prize-winning professor of chemistry at Brevard College, and a successful Life Coach. Seven myths hindering your science career Every profession has its own culture and implicit codes, and academic careers are Read more…
Our conpher expert contributor is Dr Artemios Vogiatzis, a highly respected certified coach who has mentored and advised early-career researchers to tenured principal researchers in multiple disciplines. Career planning for early career researchers Researchers pose interesting questions and find new Read more…
Dick Rowe went to his grave known as ‘The Man Who Turned Down The Beatles’ after they’d auditioned for him at Decca Records. It’s fair to say the rejection didn’t really hold them back. And the same happens in our Read more…
Why do sales and marketing emails always land in our inbox at certain times? The conpher team were casually discussing this last week, and of course there is a science behind it – just google the question “What’s the best Read more…
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