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 of the conpher team has been in your shoes and 阅读更多…
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, The Arctic University of Norway. The article lays out fundamental 阅读更多…
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 to this, the conpher team stumbled across something they wanted 阅读更多…
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 it sufficient to just publish and then expect the world 阅读更多…
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 no exception. These myths are EVERYWHERE, and they influence how 阅读更多…
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 answers. In this course, they are willing to accept long 阅读更多…
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 field…..Peter Higgs, 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Rosalyn Yallow 阅读更多…
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 time to send email?” and read the 0.9 billion results….. 阅读更多…
Our conpher expert contributor this week is Natalie James, a professional development coach, higher education consultant and founding Director of Research Coach Ltd. Responding to Change As I write this piece, our world is in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, which has seen us having to rapidly respond to 阅读更多…
Amy Koerber is Professor in Communication Studies and Associate Dean for Administration & Finance in the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University. Dr. Koerber’s most recent book, From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History, was published by Penn State University Press in April 2018, and was recently awarded Texas 阅读更多…
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