50 Things to Think About as an Early Career Researcher - Paving Your Way to Success

This book for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) provides vital insights for jump-starting your research career and guidance on how you can find your own ways of knowing, being, doing, and communicating to progress your career.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Preparing for the ECR journey ahead
3. Building your research career
4. Collaborations
5. Your research: Publication
6. Progressing your research with (or without) funding
7. You as a supervisor
8. Difficulties
9. Next steps
Afterword: Using AI in research

About the author

Margaret J. Robertson is an Honorary Academic at La Trobe University School of Education. Her research focus is team supervision and agency development within this context. Her recent research considers the importance of agency through education, life and career choices and the importance of role models.
Donna Starks is an Honorary Researcher in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at The University of Auckland. Her research focuses on how we manifest ourselves through our ways of knowing, being and communicating to the world around us.
Gaelle Horsley is a Master of Social Work, though originally qualified to teach art and English, in the UK. She has recently retired from sessional tutoring in Counselling at Victoria University, and now teaches beginner and advanced watercolours at Hunt Club Arts Centre (Brimbank Council).

Product details

• Authors: Gaelle Horsley, Margaret J. Robertson, Starks Donna
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032770536
• ISBN: 978-1-032-77053-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Study Skills, Communication Studies, teacher training, Teaching skills and techniques, Study & learning skills: general, Teaching skills & techniques, Study and learning skills: general, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher