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The art of grant writing: write, rewrite and write again
And don't forget the detailed budgeting and a looming submission deadline.
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Year-end spending inhibits proactive planning
Universities that frequently make additional funds available for a short period of time risk alienating new projects from early career researchers who don’t have large, established teams.
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Wasting time and money through ineffective evaluation
We need to start thinking about why a process exists and whether the proposed mechanism actually achieves that goal.
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How a business administration partner can deliver ‘stratactical’ value across an organization
No matter how big the organization or company is, the executive team needs to empower this role.
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Meet Wisdom Tettey, Carleton University’s new president
Transformation through education.
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Thompson Rivers University seeks experts to shape the future of online education
Subject matter experts collaborate with instructional designers to create high quality content for online courses.
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Can ‘ultimate mastery’ act as a framework toward achieving a flow state?
The idea of successive iterations across stages of development is not incongruent with the concept of mastery, and one might expect that further iterations drives greater competence.
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How our current approach to science pushes people away
The current system of academic science is not organized to support all scientists equally.
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How can we best support the mental health of senior academics?
Many of the mental health challenges universities are trying to address tend to be exacerbated by the pride of academics themselves.
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Checking in as COVID-19 continues to take a toll on all of us
For those of us that held strong at the onset of the pandemic, this is when the wave of despondency generally hits.
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Working 60 hours a week does not automatically make you a good researcher
Some people need to be pushed to achieve their best work, but it is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
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Quarterly summary: the COVID-19 lockdown and the importance of scientists
Both David and Jonathan hope that many new and good things can come from this period of lockdown.
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Systemic racism: now is not the time to retreat into our offices or labs
Three scientists share their thoughts on how the scientific community can help combat racism in all its forms.
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COVID-19: Scientists have lost their passive social check-in
The scientific community often relies on impromptu interactions to spur where the next set of experiments might go.
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Incentive structures are needed to ensure scientific progress
We must identify and resolve the gaps in our current scientific training, and revisit and refine the incentive structures we’ve created around our scientists.
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Is there an effective way to evaluate universities that takes a unique approach to education and social impact?
A potentially interesting approach would be to consider substantially less standardization in the metrics that assess academic institutions.
