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