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I’ve had a beef with leadership development programs ever since I knew what they were. I’m not sure what triggered this. It could be the fact that back in high school, when I was a senior, we had a ‘leadership day’ that was held at a venue that wasn’t our usual school campus. Exciting, right? […]
Like a lot of my work, I take inspiration from many places. This post is going to reflexively unpack some of the process I used when taking the book Getting Research Funded: Five essential rules for early career researchers (by Tseen Khoo, Phil Ward, and Jonathan O’Donnell) and turning it into a series of grant-writing […]
Lorraine Bridger passed away recently. Most people won’t know who she is but Lorraine was special to me. She got me started as research administrator. I’m going to miss her. In 1990, Lorraine employed me to work at the Research Coordination Office at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. I had one year of experience […]
Inger Mewburn, Pat Thomson, Helen Kara and Aimee Grant recently published a book, Managing Your Research Project. The Research Whisperers think that it is a handy contribution so we asked the authors if we could publish this excerpt from Chapter 2: Approaches to project management. This post is drawn from pages 19-24 of Managing Your […]
Inger Mewburn, Pat Thomson, Helen Kara and Aimee Grant recently published a book, Managing Your Research Project. The Research Whisperers think that it is a handy contribution so we asked the authors if we can publish excerpts from the Introduction. This post is drawn from pages 1-5 of Managing Your Research Project, 1st edition, by […]
This second post by Neil Selwyn and his collaborators shares some of the preliminary results from their research survey, which was discussed in an RW post earlier this year ‘Academics’ uses of GenAI‘. Image from Lance Chang | unsplash.com “I think because it’s not openly discussed and yet it’s so easy to use, I feel […]
This article was originally posted Bron Eager’s Journal blog in March 2026, and can still be found there. We have republished it because Bron has written about an important issue in a clear and evocative way. We have republished it here under the under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, with the permission of Bron Eager. […]
I’ve been thinking about Australian’s recent Open Access (OA) deal now that the dust has settled on the recent showdown with Elsevier. After all, we’d been spending some $500 million to $1 billion per year on journal subscriptions (an eye‑watering 5–10% of our national research spend), so it feels sensible to negotiate as a national […]
In my last post, ‘Transferring your funding‘, I talked in general about the things to consider for your grants when you move universities. This post covers the questions that I ask when someone says “I’m coming to your university and I need to transfer my grant”. As I said last time, it is worth remembering […]
When you move to a new university, what happens to your grants or fellowship? You might be moving because you have a new job and a promotion. You might be moving because things are bad where you are right now and you need to get out. You might be moving because someone you care about […]
