Skills for a Scientific Life by Helliwell, John R.

Skills for a Scientific Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498768757)

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Format: Hardcover
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Skills for a Scientific Life by Helliwell, John R.

Skills for a Scientific Life

$255.00
Skills for a Scientific Life by Helliwell, John R.

Skills for a Scientific Life

$255.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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Being, or wanting to become, a scientist requires academic training in the science subjects. To succeed as a research scientist and educator requires specific as well as general skills. Skills for a Scientific Life provides insight into how to be successful. This career book is intended for potential entrants, early career and mid-career scientists for a wide range of science disciplines.

Features

  • Offers advice on specific skills for research article writing, grant writing, and refereeing as well as teaching undergraduates and supervising postgraduates
  • Provides helpful case studies resulting from the author's teaching and mentoring experience
  • Contributes a special emphasis on skills for realizing wider impacts such as sustainability and gender equality
  • Presents several chapters on leadership skills both in academe and in government service
  • Concludes with an emphasis on the author's overall underpinning of the topics from the point of view of ethics


Author: John R. Helliwell
ISBN-10: 149876875X
ISBN-13: 9781498768757
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2016
Pages: 197
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2017
By John R. Helliwell
By John R. Helliwell
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John R. Helliwell is Emeritus Professor of Structural Chemistry, University of Manchester. He has a DPhil in molecular biophysics from the University of Oxford and a DSc in Physics from the University of York. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Biology and of the American Crystallographic Association. He was recently elected an Honorary Member of the British Biophysical Society.

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