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sarahlouq says:

14 June 2011 at 12:04 pm

I’ve got many contributions i could make to this, possibly as many as i can make for the thesis whisperer – having just put in my first sets of funding as a grown up would love to give some ideas on that

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Ashok Dinasarapu says:

12 August 2011 at 3:54 am

Nice bolg!

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mariza (@marizopedo) says:

2 November 2011 at 10:57 pm

Excellent idea to run a blog like this!
Any tips on preparing abstracts for conferences?

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- Jonathan O'Donnell says:
  
  3 November 2011 at 6:35 am
  
  Hi Mariza
  
  Thanks. We have written three posts about conferences, but we haven’t talked about the specifics of abstracts yet. It is a good idea.
  
  Jonathan
  
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theresa says:

10 February 2012 at 3:50 pm

Hi Research Whisperers,

I’m an ECR with the chance to bring some really good professional development to my campus, and was wondering if you had any advice, either on specific PD programs, or on general skills, etc that should be developed in the early stages of one’s career?

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- Tseen Khoo says:
  
  14 February 2012 at 1:02 pm
  
  Hi Theresa – Great that you have the opportunity to get some PD onto the campus! I’m assuming you mean PD in terms of building a research academic career? If so, then I would suggest you have a browse over the topics we’ve covered in the blog so far. They’re often things that universities assume their academics already know, or that they’ll just pick them up on the job, but this isn’t often (or consistently) the case. I think some of the key things for ECRs and research are:
  
  * time-management (specifically: making time for research),
  * publishing (review processes, protocols) and presenting (making the most of conferences, best ways to address questions, what to do with your work afterwards),
  * grant writing (introductory, budgets, associated: basic project management skills), and
  * career-planning (including a component on how to be an academic leader, or mentoring/supervising).
  
  These are just my thoughts. There’s plenty more out there!
  
  ^ @tseenkhoo
  
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Miss S says:

10 February 2012 at 10:54 pm

This site is great. Do you have any recommendations for researchers who are unaffiliated with an institution or large company? I have heard about a new service called Udini from ProQuest. Have you any experience with it?

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- Tseen Khoo says:
  
  14 February 2012 at 1:06 pm
  
  That new service looks and sounds a lot like a few other programmes that are already out there (the one I’m most familiar with is Evernote).
  
  Re researchers who are not affiliated with an institution or large company: that sounds like a blogpost we should write! Do you mean independent researchers (as in, people who don’t want an institutional affiliation), or those who are working to position themselves within institutions?
  
  ^ @tseenkhoo
  
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Dawood says:

12 March 2013 at 10:43 am

I was wondering if you could discuss the issue of PhD students applying for Postdoc fellowships (or perhaps you have already and I’ve just missed it). I’m a humanities PhD candidate aiming to submit my thesis and be finished by the end of the year. Yet, I’m not sure exactly what the next step is to move to the Postdoc stage and have had little help from my Dept/School regarding that.

I have one journal article published right now, a book chapter under contract (to be published next year), a book review forthcoming and potentially another piece that I can try to publish as an article. On top of that, I have not had any regular tutoring but have organised and taken a handful seminars, participated in a number of conferences (including international) and worked on curriculum development for another University.

Is there anywhere that can give an idea of the minimum standard required for Postdoc fellowships? “Relative to opportunity” is a very vague and unhelpful term when it comes to trying to see if you *actually* have a chance in heck of being successful!

I’m surely not the only PhD student wondering about this next giant step once we actually finish the thesis…

Keep up the great work, your site is an amazing resource.

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- Tseen Khoo says:
  
  16 March 2013 at 9:15 pm
  
  Hi there! Thanks for your encouraging comment!
  
  You are actually the third person to ask about postdoc fellowship information. I have a really long post I wrote a while back about ‘how to apply for a research fellowship’ – maybe it’s time to update it and publish!
  
  Thanks for the ideas, and good on your for being prepared for the post-PhD process.
  
  I’m afraid that is no public/recognised “minimum standard” for postdocs – what constitutes a strong track-record can be v. discipline-specific.
  
  ^ @tseenster
  
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- Tseen Khoo says:
  
  19 March 2013 at 3:50 pm
  
  Your comment appears to be timely. Did you see this in today’s Conversation?
  
  “Are PhD graduates expecting too much?” http://theconversation.edu.au/are-phd-graduates-expecting-too-much-11854
  
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siobhanmac says:

6 April 2013 at 1:47 am

Hi, there I am a Library student in Dublin and we have a blog as part of our Contemporary Issues in Professional Practice module, this blog is brilliant as the topics you pick up on are relevant to what is happening within academic libraries.Cheers

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- Tseen Khoo says:
  
  6 April 2013 at 9:34 am
  
  Thanks for commenting, Siobhan! Really glad that you find the Research Whisperer blog useful. Best of luck with the studies.
  
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