A self-fulfilling prophecy : building a successful career in health research

Becoming a strategic researcher: increasing your chances of long-term success -- Critical self-analysis and personal improvement: do I currently have the skills and knowledge to become an expert health researcher? -- Benchmarking your capabilities and performance: improving your chances of success within a competitive environment -- Choosing the 'cutting-edge' of health research -- From potential to reality: the importance of achieving timely milestones to bring your research to fruition -- Becoming a prolific publisher -- Successfully applying for competitive research funds to support your career path and research programme -- Putting it all together: a self-fulfilling prophecy of career success in health research.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]) and index.

To date, non-medical researchers, particularly those working in nursing and allied health, have suffered from a general lack of good, strategic advice on how to build their careers. Designed to assist readers in building their careers, A Self-fulfilling Prophecy: Building a Successful Career in Health Research, is a fascinating insight into author Simon Stewart's, career as a health researcher. Using his unique experiences as a basis for the book, Stewart helps identify and overcome the many different obstacles of building an effective career framework. The book breaks down the key to a successful career in health research, through a systematic analysis of how you can improve your curriculum vitae and positively influence external factors that will determine the eventual success of your career. PhD candidates and Post-Doctoral Fellows provide insights into how they have developed their own research careers, thus providing evidence that it is possible to achieve something substantive if you are able to think and judge your career in a critical manner.