The first steps: an internship

This is a guest post by James Faraday, a speech and language therapist: Over the last 12 months, I have completed a clinical academic internship. And I can honestly say it’s been a fantastic and very productive experience!

10 ways to ruin your career

I frequently observe potential clinician academics ruining their prospects through very simple actions. From these observations, here are my top 10 tips on How to ruin your research career.

Networking: how to do it?

How does one “network”? What do people actually do when they “do networking”?

Hello, I’m Spock

For the last few years, I’ve been a Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist, an NHS Service Manager and a senior AHP. Now, I’ve begun to be a Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow. So, what’s the difference?

Straddling two worlds

I was pleased to be asked to write something for this blog, especially when I read the first posts and saw the aim of this blog: opening up the “black box of being a clinician academic”. Then I started thinking: