The library
Topics
A short read plus something concrete to do — about half an hour each. They're independent: pick whichever problem is currently yours.
A WAGademy session works with none of these. The format is commit, work, report; a topic is the thirty minutes of discussion you can put in front of it when you want one. New topics get added as they get written.
Writing momentum
Perfectionism, blank-page dread, and 'I'll just read one more paper'. Four tactics that restart a stalled draft, and one you can use in the next fifteen minutes.
Research skills · 60 min Hands-onReproducible research
The hands-on one. Work through it at a laptop and you'll finish with a real project on GitHub, a sane folder structure, and a README — about an hour, start to finish.
Research skills · 30 minSurviving peer review
What actually happens after you hit submit, how to read a decision letter without panicking, and the point-by-point response letter that gets papers accepted.
Research skills · 30 minTaming the literature
A four-step pipeline from scoping to capture, the difference between a review that catalogues and one that argues, and two honest criteria for when to stop reading.
Impact & profile · 40 minResearch impact
Impact means two different things and only one of them is easy to count. How to plan for the other one from the start, use metrics without embarrassing yourself, and keep the record that year-four you will otherwise spend a fortnight reconstructing.
Career & wellbeing · 30 minManaging up
Most supervision friction is unspoken, mismatched expectations. Here's how to make them explicit — with the agendas, feedback contracts and email templates to do it.
Got a topic you'd run? The material here is whatever has been written up so far, not a fixed syllabus. If there's something your group needs and it isn't here, tell me — or write it and send it over.