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Many candidates accept an academic offer during the first phone call for fear of losing it. Yet teaching load, start-up funds and start date often matter more t
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Proposal writing is widely taught; managing a grant after you win it hardly at all. The result: budgets out of line, unreported missed milestones and panicked f
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A three-month visiting position abroad can launch years of collaboration, or pass like a long holiday because nobody knew what you came to do. The difference is
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Your paper might be read in full by a few hundred people. A good public piece can reach tens of thousands, but only if you reverse the structure you are used to
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Many early-career researchers wait for one mentor who can help with everything: research, teaching, funding, life balance. Such people are rare. Five or six peo
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When promotion or review comes round, many academics spend weeks digging through old emails to remember five years of work. A ten-minute weekly evidence log tur
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New group leaders often keep working as if they were alone: everything in their heads, every question answered by message. Three simple tools let a small team r
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After the defence, many researchers hit a gap: dig deeper into the thesis topic or strike out in a new direction? A five-year agenda with three risk levels give
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A project with a company can bring real data, funding and impact. It can also leave your paper in a drawer for two years because of a clause nobody read closely
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Plenty of people return from conferences with a certificate and some photos but no useful contacts. The real value lies in three things: choosing the right even
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Most friction between supervisors and students comes not from subject expertise but from expectations never said aloud: how often to meet, when to send drafts,
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Teaching has fixed deadlines and students waiting at the door; research has nobody demanding it today. Without a system to protect it, research gets pushed to n
