Dan Csontos, Author at Elevate Scientific

Editorial Funding

20th February 2020

Helping researchers secure funding

Our end-to-end editorial support and trainings enable researchers to frame and present their research in clear, complete and coherent proposals that capture the novelty, originality, significance and feasibility of their…

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21st October 2019

Training candidates for the ERC Consolidator Grant interview

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Researchers preparing for their Brussels interviews are undoubtedly near the tops of their fields. But our recent experience shows that they still need support to make the best of this…

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Communications Presentation techniques Public speaking Science communication

26th September 2019

Science communications: There’s a will, but not always a way

Recent survey shows that researchers in Sweden are eager to communicate science beyond academia, but that lack of time, resources and training hinders them.

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Funding Presentation techniques Story

15th August 2018

ERC interviews: Telling a compelling story

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Explaining your proposal to a European Research Council interview panel can be terrifying, but if you frame it as a story and prepare extensively it can make all the difference.

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Funding Impact Publishing Research

31st August 2016

Assessment of Swedish research in a global perspective

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First instalment of assessment by the Swedish Research Council reveals that Sweden is well-placed internationally in terms of research funding and staff as well as highly cited publications. But future…

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Research ethics

18th November 2015

Targeting cognitive biases

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Unconscious cognitive biases risk hampering scientific progress, but there are ways to tackle this issue.

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Publishing

6th October 2015

Fixing science’s quality control

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The peer review system is vital to the scientific process, yet it is marred by shortcomings related to reliability and bias. Several recent initiatives pushed by science publishers are now…

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Education Research

4th September 2015

Educating for a change

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What are the best ways to educate the next-generation scientists, undergraduate students, and, in the wider context, today’s kids?

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Policy Research Research ethics

5th August 2015

Improving research transparency, integrity, and openness

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There are wide-spread concerns regarding the reproducibility of scientific results. Now two perspectives and an editorial published in Science outline steps to promote the transparency, reproducibility, and quality of science.

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