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Quick tips series

It takes just a few minutes to pick up helpful tips from our bitesize advice for researchers. Get into the habit of taking (a little) time out for professional development.

Jump to quick tips related to:

  • Knowledge and intellectual abilities
  • Personal effectiveness
  • Research governance and organisation
  • Engagement, influence and impact

Develop your knowledge and intellectual abilities

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Creativity in research

Using online resources in your research

Argument construction

Reading research papers during your doctorate

Quick tips to improve your personal effectiveness

Finishing your doctorate

Create an action plan for your career development

Creating luck in your career

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Creating an effective CV

Effective cover letters

Part-time doctorate

Being aware of your values

Staying happy during your doctorate

Maintaining a healthy work-life balance

Defeating self-sabotage for doctoral candidates

Time-management for researchers

Research governance and organisation topics

Using peer review effectively

Planning your research project

Writing grant applications

Project management

Tips to maximise engagement, influence and impact

Giving oral presentations

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Negotiation

Authorship

Successful supervisory meetings with doctoral researchers

Handling emails

Writing up your thesis

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Some ways to use titles in the quick tips series

Struggling to focus on your professional development? Why not send yourself one quick tips title every day for a month?

Have only a little time? Set aside 30 minutes for a quick review of your knowledge, attributes and behaviours against the Vitae Researcher Development Framework. then use 'quick tips' to help identify important development actions

Supporting researchers with their professional development? Recommend this page, link to individual titles or use them as handouts. Please acknowledge Vitae as the source

Other collections from Vitae

Professional development advice sheets. Advice covering all 63 professional development areas from the RDF

Action and evidence examples. Designed to offer inspiration when setting professional development actions and collecting evidence to demonstrate your progress is challenging

Researcher booklets. Practical advice and tips tailored to researchers on topics chosen to support professional development. Includes suggested exercises to work through

Online #Vitaehangout for researchers. A collection of online Q&As for researchers organised by Vitae

What do researchers do? Our series of publications exploring the destinations and career paths of doctoral graduates

visual representations of data from our What do researchers do? publications series

Vitae library of resources. Downloadable packaged training programmes with all you need to run a session ‘off the shelf’

Focus on topics. Our series on topics of interest to researchers. Find all our resources on each topic in one place

The Vitae RDF Planner

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The RDF Planner is a web-based app for researchers who want to advance their professional development: identify strengths, action plan, review achievements and create a portfolio of evidence.

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