50 Things to Think About as an Early Career Researcher

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.

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).

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 Artificial Intelligence (AI) in research