Tips for PhD Students & Postdocs

Preparing a great application is an essential skill for any researcher. However, no application for a job or an academic program is complete without a letter of recommendation.…

Many graduate students are often concerned that academic writing is too difficult. This concern, however, can be eased. There are many tips a student can learn in order to become a…

Giving presentations is part of the job for academics and researchers. But let’s be honest- many people who work in these fields prefer the quiet company of a few lab partners over…

Quality control can mean the difference between good science and bad science. So, what is quality control? Very simply, it is any process that aims to monitor and maintain…

Scientific publications such as manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations aid in disseminating clinical data to the scientific world and maintain transparency of the…

Reproducibility is vital to research practice. Fundamentally, it means that different researchers use the same method, under the same conditions, and they should get similar…

Securing grants or having funds to carry out your work is the first requirement of any research project. The process of securing grants is a very competitive, lengthy and…

Conducting a study can be a taxing time for researchers. Researchers often need to multitask and handle other responsibilities along with their work in the lab. This can sometimes…

Conducting a research study is an enormous task. It requires a lot of pre-planning and considerations. A thorough literature review needs to be carried out and a detailed plan of…

When I began my work on the thesis I was always focused on my research. However, once I began to make my way through research, I realized that research ethics is a core aspect of…

Quantitative research has a structured approach, it analyzes the data to define the relationship between the variables. It uses computational, statistical, and mathematical tools…