Developing a Talent for Science

A practical guide packed with valuable tips and exercises to help develop your skills and become a more productive scientist.

Ritsert C. Jansen (Author)

9780521149617, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 6 January 2011

180 pages, 20 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.4 x 1.1 cm, 0.38 kg

'… the strength of Jansen's little book is its valuable lessons on how 'to sell yourself'. Developing a Talent for Science should be required reading for those who see scholarly work as preparing a 'sales pitch' and 'climbing their career ladder'.' Stanley Shostak, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms

Want to make the most of your talent for science? This practical guide for students, postdoctorates and professors offers a unique stepwise approach to help you develop your expertise and become a more productive scientist. Covering topics from giving presentations and writing effectively to prioritising your workload, it provides guidance to enhance your skills and combine them with those of others to your mutual benefit. Learn how to maintain your passion for science, inspire others to develop their abilities and motivate yourself to plan effectively, focus on your goals and even optimise funding opportunities. With numerous valuable tips, real-life stories, novel questionnaires and exercises for self-reflection, this must-read guide provides everything you need to take responsibility for your own personal and professional development.

Introduction
1. Develop your talent
2. Use other people's talent
3. Develop other people's talent
4. Make it happen
5. Use your webs
Further reading
Acknowledgements
Index.

Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA], Biology, life sciences [PS]