Tools

How often are you staring at a blank document for what feels like hours, knowing you should be writing but feeling completely frozen? Or perhaps you're working 60-hour weeks, ticking boxes and meeting deadlines, but running on empty with your health deteriorating. Maybe you're comfortable and stress-free, but deep down, you know you're not making the progress you're capable of.

If any of these scenarios resonate, you're not alone.

In a systematic review and meta-analysis, the authors found…

As a researcher, I create new knowledge or use existing knowledge in new ways. I work closely with other researchers, and more are using AI now. Some use it well, while others don't. It's important to think carefully about how we use AI. Just because we can do something with AI doesn't always mean we should.

Anyway, I was talking about useful AI tools, innovative software and platforms in general. There are so many excellent tools out there these days that it's hard to know which ones to use.…

Imagine you are getting into an elevator and someone asks you "what is our research all about", you need to describe what it is and why it is important before the elevator reaches its destination and the two of you part ways. By the time you exit the elevator, the other person should know exactly what problem your research is addressing, what it is that you are researching and why it is important.

But why would we care about putting an elevator pitch together? Firstly, formulating your elevator…