How to write paragraphs

in research texts (articles, books and PhDs)

Top ten questions for the PhD oral exam

A checklist of ‘viva’ issues that always come up

When you have finally finished writing a PhD dissertation or thesis, and submitted it to the university for review, you are at the end of a long period of…

Welcome to Medium

Bring Your Stories and Ideas

Storyboarding research

How to do smarter, proactive planning-and-realization of projects, reports and…

Doing a Quick Literature Review

Modern practices better exploit digital era capabilities

Doing quicker literature reviews

Four ways to better exploit digital era capabilities

An Introvert’s Guide to Better Presentations

Improving your public speaking despite hating crowds

I am an introvert and I have always feared public speaking, and despite having given an industry conference presentation every year for the…

How to write a blogpost from your journal article

One of the oddest things that people in academic life regularly say to me is: ‘I’m not paid to write blogposts, only research articles. If my department or the grant-funder wants to start paying me for doing posts, then that would be a…

Becoming more creative in academic work

- a menu of suggestions

Why do academics and PhDers carefully choose useless titles for articles and chapters?

Six ways to get it wrong, and four steps to get it right

Should your academic CV ( or résumé) go digital, at last?

To decide, think through how the modern academic jobs process works

To decide, think through how the university jobs process works now