'Making It' as a Contract Researcher (Insider Guides to Success in Academia)

The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules of the game - the things you need to know but usually aren't told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors - and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia. A critical, pragmatic and international account of the contemporary research career, this book explores the question of what it means to 'make it' and examines the manner in which contract researchers operate across a range of contexts, both within and outside academia. Using a combination of current research and primary qualitative data generated through interviews and narratives from current and past contract researchers and educators. This book will provide the reader with practical and realistic strategies for improving the experience of being a contract researcher and the tools to better support and sustain a satisfying and secure contract research career.

• | Author: Nerida Spina|Jess Harris|Simon Bailey|Mhorag Goff
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: April 24, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 198 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 113836259X
• | ISBN-13: 9781138362598