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Simon Capewell Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY, UK
Mark Kelson Research Fellow in Statistics, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UK
Dublin, Tuesday 1st September 2015
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia: A survival kit
Thinking strategically about your career
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ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia: A survival kit
Thinking strategically about your career
• maximising future career opportunities • building relationships • networking tips • thinking about impact & future collaborations (not just publications)
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This talk
• Simon’s research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good lessons & Key messages
• Your Career Aspirations
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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This talk
• My research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good lessons & Key messages
• Your Career Aspirations
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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Simon’s research career
• Clinical medicine in UK
(Newcastle Cardiff, Oxford, Edinburgh)
• Public Health at Glasgow & Liverpool Universities
• Research programme on cardiovascular
epidemiology, prevention & food policy
• 300+ peer-reviewed papers
• Total JOINT funding >£20million (£5million as PI)
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Simon’s research
• Funded by MRC/EU/NIHR/BHF/WHO) includes:
• IMPACT model programme examining the dramatic
falls in CVD mortality rates in UK, USA & other high
income countries; & rapid mortality increases in
China, Middle East etc
• Why are population-wide risk factor improvements
more powerful than modern treatments??
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Simon’s research
• Funded by MRC/EU/NIHR/BHF/WHO) includes:
• IMPACT model programme examining the dramatic
falls in CVD mortality rates in UK, USA & other high
income countries; & rapid mortality increases in
China, Middle East etc
• Why are population-wide risk factor improvements
more powerful than modern treatments??
• Developing effective and cost-saving non-
communicable disease prevention strategies
regionally, nationally and internationally (majoring
on food policy, using policy analyses, empirical
evidence & quantitative modelling)
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IMPACT models around the World A global view of CHD mortality trend analyses
Completed
In progress
Starting
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IMPACT models around the World Future collaborations??
Completed
In progress
Starting
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Bids
Bids
Bids Bids
Bids
Bids
Bids
Bids
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This talk
• My research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good lessons & Key messages
• Your Career Aspirations
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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Painful Lessons
• Going it alone
• Not asking for advice
• Getting good advice but then ignoring it
• Attacking too many interests simultaneously
(instead of focussing on one or two at a time)
• Work/Life balance: neglecting my family
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This talk
• My research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good Lessons & Key Messages
• Your Career Aspirations
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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• Interdisciplinary better than just clinicians
• Working with more experienced
researchers:
– Identify, meet, befriend & work with them
– Learn from them
Good Lessons & Key Messages 1
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• Interdisciplinary better than just clinicians
• Working with more experienced
researchers:
– Identify, meet, befriend & work with them
– Learn from them
• Teams are better than individuals
– Generating & refining research ideas
– Contributing different skills
– Learning from each other
Good Lessons & Key Messages 1
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• Interdisciplinary better than just clinicians
• Working with more experienced
researchers:
– Identify, meet, befriend & work with them
– Learning from them
• Teams are better than individuals
– Generating & refining research ideas
– Contributing different skills
– Learning from each other
• Using different team member strengths (ideas, analysis, drafting , polishing, presenting)
Good Lessons & Key Messages 1
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• Follow your interests & enthusiasms (harness them to generate energy and persistence)
Good Lessons & Key Messages 2
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• Follow your interests & enthusiasms (harness them to generate energy and persistence)
• Meet people – Use email, Twitter Skype etc etc
– Be prepared to travel to meet people
Good Lessons & Key Messages 2
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• Follow your interests & enthusiasms (harness them to generate energy and persistence)
• Meet people – Use email, Twitter Skype etc etc
– Be prepared to travel to meet people
• Funding: At first, aim LOW – Local grants, fellowships, small pots
– Get onto other peoples bids (be helpful++)
– Build your CV (money attracts money)
Good Lessons & Key Messages 2
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• Follow your interests & enthusiasms (harness them to generate energy and persistence)
• Meet people – Use email, Twitter Skype etc etc
– Be prepared to travel to meet people
• Funding: At first, aim LOW – Local grants, fellowships, small pots
– Get onto other peoples bids (be helpful++)
– Build your CV (money attracts money)
• Publishing: Aim HIGH (BMJ, Lancet, PLoS etc)
– Be collaborative & INCLUSIVE
– Take advice from mentors
Good Lessons & Key Messages 2
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• Recruit mentors – Take their advice
– Thank them
• Talk to your peers –Learn from them
Good Lessons & Key Messages 3
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This talk
• My research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good lessons & Key messages
•Your Career Aspirations
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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This talk
• My research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good lessons & Key messages
Your Career Aspirations • Exercise 1: Please write down three topics
you might wish to be researching within 5 years time
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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This talk
• My research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good lessons & Key messages
Your Career Aspirations • Exercise 1: Write down three topics
you might wish to be researching within 5 years time
• Exercise 2: Write down your future collaboration needs
mainly to share data, or compare data or recruit additional expertise/skills?
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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This talk
• My research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good lessons & Key messages
Your Career Aspirations • Exercise 1: Write down three topics
you might wish to be researching within 5 years time
• Exercise 2: Write down your future collaboration needs
mainly to share data, or compare data or recruit additional expertise/skills?
• Exercise 3: Please MOVE & form GROUPS of 5-10 people NOW
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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This talk
• My research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good lessons & Key messages
Your Career Aspirations • Exercise 1: Write down three topics
you might wish to be researching within 5 years time
• Exercise 2: Write down your future collaboration needs
mainly to share data, or compare data or recruit additional expertise/skills?
• Exercise 3: Please MOVE & form GROUPS of 5-10 people NOW
• Exercise 4: Please LISTEN to your neighbours three topics, and tell them
yours, (perhaps the person on your left, then your right, then in front, then behind)
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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This talk
• My research experience
• Painful lessons
• Good lessons & Key messages
Your Career Aspirations • Exercise 1: Write down three topics
you might wish to be researching within 5 years time
• Exercise 2: Write down your future collaboration needs
mainly to share data, or compare data or recruit additional expertise/skills?
• Exercise 3: Please MOVE & form GROUPS of 3-8 people NOW
• Exercise 4: Pl LISTEN to your neighbours skill/resource needs, & tell them yours,
(perhaps the person on your left, then your right, then wider group)
• Exercise 5: Plenary feedback and discussion
ECR Workshop Forging a career in academia Thinking strategically about your career
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Reserve
slides
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Simon Capewell Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY, UK
Liverpool, Friday 31st January 2015
Enhancing Interdisciplinarity Afternoon Workshop
COLLABORATION:
the key to successful academic research
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Simon Capewell Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY, UK
Baltimore, Thursday 5thMarch 2015
EPI/Lifestyle Early Career Session
Global Collaborations in CVD:
Practical Perspectives & Experiences
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Journal citation is INCREASED by multinational authorship Empirical cumulative distribution function for the proportion of articles published in journals of tier V-I
Smith MJ et al PLoS ONE (2014) 9: e109195 The Scientific Impact of Nations: Journal Placement and Citation Performance doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109195 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0109195