Skills for a Scientific Life

<p>Being or wanting to become a scientist requires academic training in the science subjects. To succeed as a research scientist and educator requires specific as well as general skills. <strong><em>Skills for a Scientific Life</em></strong> provides insight into how to be successful. This career book is intended for potential entrants early career and mid-career scientists for a wide range of science disciplines.</p><p>Features</p><ul> <li>Offers advice on specific skills for research article writing grant writing and refereeing as well as teaching undergraduates and supervising postgraduates</li> <li>Provides helpful case studies resulting from the author's teaching and mentoring experience</li> <li>Contributes a special emphasis on skills for realizing wider impacts such as sustainability and gender equality</li> <li>Presents several chapters on leadership skills both in academe and in government service</li> <li>Concludes with an emphasis on the author’s overall underpinning of the topics from the point of view of ethics</li> </ul>