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CHARTING A COURSE FOR A ESSFUL RESEARCH CAREER A Guide for Early Career Researchers 2nd Edition Professor Alan M Johnson AM . (Hons), ., ., ., . ? 2011 Elsevier . All rights reserved. No part of this docu - ment may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission from the publisher. Enquiries concerning reproduc - tion should be sent to the publisher at the following address: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX, Amsterdam, herlands Email: ******@.au Published by Elsevier . First published June 2009, second edition April 2011. Printed in herlands. ISBN 978-90-817200-1-4 1 Foreword by Jay Katzen 2 Introduction 4 1. Career Planning 7 2. Selecting a Research Discipline Area 11 3. Selecting a Supervisor 19 4. Selecting a Mentor 25 5. Research Collaboration 29 6. Networking 35 7. Ethics and Research Integrity 39 8. Choosing Your Publication’s Style and Format 43 9. Where to Publish 49 10. Preparing a Grant Funding Application 61 11. Collaborating with Industry and Academia 69 12. Attending Conferences 75 13. Society Membership 81 14. Selling Your plishments 85 15. Curriculum Vitae 93 16. Applying for Fellowships 97 17. Applying for a Job or Promotion 101 References 106 About Professor Alan Johnson 116 CONTENTS 2 Being a researcher today is a bit of a dichotomy. On one hand, researchers now have easier and quicker access to an unprec - edented amount of information from around the world, through tools such as Elsevier’s SciVerse Scopus and SciVerse Sci - enceDirect databases. Global communications technology al - lows collaboration on the individual, national, and international levels like never before, which facilitates the research process as a whole from the funding stages through discovery and pub - lication. On the other hand, they are working in the - petitive research environment ever known. Grant applications are increasing, funding opportunities are decreasing, and fund - ing bodies are t