Practical guidance for researchers who feel stuck, overloaded, uncertain, or delayed with writing, publishing, PhD work, supervision, or academic career decisions.
The articles below help you move from confusion to clarity — with structured, experience-based support rather than productivity pressure.
Explore practical tools, frameworks, diagnostics, and real academic writing guidance used by researchers across disciplines.
Choose the situation that best matches where you are right now. Each short tool helps you clarify the problem, reduce uncertainty, and identify a practical next step.
Define your paper focus, create a working structure, and identify your next writing step.
Decide whether your manuscript is ready to submit — or what still needs work.
Identify whether your current support system is helping your PhD progress or holding it back.
Do you have to give a scientific presentation at a conference or at your institute, and wonder when you need to start preparing it? How early should you begin to work on your talk to be able to deliver it well? Will one or two...
Are you wondering what one might typically be able to expect from a good PhD supervisor? Are you uncertain if your own supervision ticks all the boxes? Are you having one issue or another with supervision and you’re not sure if this is...
Always wanted to know where reviewers first look at when reviewing a journal paper? In our courses, we have been asked this question many times. Here we will dive into the issue to shed some light on it and help you on your first...
Are your deadlines staring you down like a lion waiting to pounce? Deadline dread is an all too real problem for many researchers, with all real consequences. If you’re tired of the last minute panic, sleepless nights and missed...
A conference presentation, like any other event where you present, is a great possibility to showcase who you are and what you do. However, it sometimes looks like not all presenters recognise the opportunity, assuming a presentation...
Having doubts about the type of PhD dissertation you’ll hand in at the end of your studies? Getting all sorts of confusing advice, and not knowing how to move on? Let us help you out of the dilemma! Are you pondering one of...
Do you also have “get started with my paper!” regularly on your to-do list? And do you continually find it not done at the end of the day, and postpone it to tomorrow’s tasks? Getting started with a paper is a tough task for many of...
Do you frequently leave your office in the evening after a long and hard working day feeling dissatisfied with what you’ve achieved and how you’ve spent your time? Your days often go by filled with doing a lot of ‘stuff’, but you...
Are you scared of presenting your fine research in front of an audience of your scientific colleagues? Read our 10 strategies to learn how we can help you to be less nervous when delivering an oral presentation at a scientific...
Do you sometimes daydream about the day your PhD is done? The very moment you proudly turn in your dissertation to the faculty and realise you are finished? Your PhD is completed! Such an elevating, happy and memorable moment! But then...
Are you struggeling with writing the abstract of your research paper? Let us show you in 10 steps how to write a really good paper abstract that will help you get published and likely generate a bigger audience for your work....
