Struggling to concentrate on your writing? This short audiocast discusses the four things you need to boost your writing productivity:

Knowledge: know what you will be writing before you are writing it.
Time: craft dedicated writing blocks in your working week.
Enthusiasm: get excited about what you are writing.
Imperfection: give yourself permission to write badly (for now).

This audiocast is based Rachel Aaron’s article 'How I went from 2.000 to 10.000 a day'and Katherine Firth’s blog post on 'The Perfect Sentence Vortex and How to Escape It'.

Productive writing

This short audiocast outlines steps that you can take to help you choose the right target journal.

How to choose an academic journal

In this audiocast, Elizabeth Mamali from Bristol Doctoral College explores open research and what it means for postgraduate researchers.

Featuring: Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, Kirsty Merrett, Research Support Librarian, and Paul Spencer, PGR Environment Development Manager.

0:53 – What is open research?
2:49 - What is the difference between open access and open data?
7:30 – Why would a postgraduate researcher make their data accessible?
13:04 – How can postgraduate researchers whose work includes human participants engage with open data practices?
17:14 – How does the university of Bristol support open research and the researchers that want to engage with open research practices?
24:31 – What is the significance of the inaugural open research prize for postgraduate researchers?
26:19 – What are the different open research practices that are eligible for the prize?
29:13 – What is the submission process like and what happens after?

PGR Development