The Early Career Researcher's Toolbox

This book probes professional development issues crucial to early career researchers, beginning with advice on selecting mentors and optimizing mentoring relationships. From this foundation, the book describes how to navigate the peer-review process, particularly when publishing in academic journals, as well as build connections between the different pieces of academic work published during the early career years. It details strategies to leverage the tools of storytelling to build a research program coupled with concrete guidance on delivering job talks during academic job interviews. In addition, the book includes a feature, Anonymous Accounts, which provides real-life examples of how early career researchers experienced many aspects of their training and illustrates how to overcome obstacles on the path to success in the academic job market. Key topics featured include: Selecting and working with mentors. Navigating peer review when publishing in academic journals. Building a research program. Delivering academic job talks. The Early Career Researcher’s Toolbox is a must-have resource for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and aspiring undergraduate students as well as all early career and other professionals in search of a resource designed to help them succeed in the academic job market. This book probes professional development issues crucial to early career researchers, beginning with advice on selecting mentors and optimizing mentoring relationships. From this foundation, the book describes how to navigate the peer-review process, particularly when publishing in academic journals, as well as build connections between the different pieces of academic work published during the early career years. It details strategies to leverage the tools of storytelling to build a research program coupled with concrete guidance on delivering job talks during academic job interviews. In addition, the book includes a feature, Anonymous Accounts, which provides real-life examples of how early career researchers experienced many aspects of their training and illustrates how to overcome obstacles on the path to success in the academic job market. Key topics featured include: Selecting and working with mentors. Navigating peer review when publishing in academic journals. Building a research program. Delivering academic job talks. The Early Career Researcher’s Toolbox is a must-have resource for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and aspiring undergraduate students as well as all early career and other professionals in search of a resource designed to help them succeed in the academic job market.