Advice for authoring a PhD or academic book

- a menu of suggestions

Modern societies place a high value on innovation, and for good reason. ‘Nothing was ever yet done’, said John Stuart Mill (in On Liberty)…

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…

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

The rules governing academic CVs (short for the Latin curriculum vitae in the UK, Europe and Australasia), and often loosely called résumés

- How an adapted ‘business model canvass’ may help

Modern practices better exploit digital era capabilities

There is a huge gulf between STEM scientists (in science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and scholars in other disciplines in…

How conservative publishers and authors risk killing off books and chapters across university social sciences and humanities

Blogging changes the nature of academic research, not just how it is communicated

How to do smarter, proactive planning-and-realization of projects, reports and articles, from the outset

Do one thing well. Flatten the structure. Say it once, say it right. Try paragraph re-planning. Make the motivation clearer. Strengthen…

Get prepared now for a move away ‘legacy’, print-orientated practices

Also called ‘reverse outlining’

Avoid bogus over-precision and un-needed complexity, but give readers full data labels

References should lead to full texts wherever possible 

in research texts (articles, books and PhDs)

Four principles for improving how you display tables, graphs, charts and diagrams 

Here’s how to easily change, if you want to