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Description
In The Productive Researcher, Mark Reed shows researchers how they can become more productive in a fraction of their current working day. He draws on interviews with some of the world’s highest performing researchers, the literature and his own experience to identify a small number of important insights that can transform how researchers work. The book is based on an unparalleled breadth of interdisciplinary evidence that speaks directly to researchers of all disciplines and career stages. The lessons in this book will make you more productive, more satisfied with what you produce, and enable you to be happy working less, and being more.
The hardback edition has the title and design imprinted on a fabric cover, hand crafted by a book maker in Yorkshire. It contains spectacular colour photography throughout. Chapters are accompanied by close-up images of trees that build up to the forest metaphor that concludes the book. These are bookended by wide perspective canopy images that accompany the front matter (from which the cover design is derived) and concluding chapter. The overall effect is a touch and feel that makes this a book to savour.
Mark Reed is Professor of Socio-Technical Innovation at Newcastle University and Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University and the University of Leeds. He has over 150 publications that have been cited more than 15,000 times. He is author of The Research Impact Handbook, which he has used to train over 8000 researchers from more than 200 institutions in 55 countries.
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Guides and podcasts
Four ways to cultivate deeper creativity by embracing failure, procrastination and criticism
Do you spend hours creating the perfect place to think, and then get frustrated when the ideas don’t start to flow? There is a reason for this. You are creating the wrong sorts of thinking spaces because you are focusing only on the positive attributes of places where you have had creative ideas in the past. Instead, by understanding the opposite of your best thinking space, you can reverse-engineer a psychological space that actually works.
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Creativity from dark places - how to find new depths of creativity by seeking challenge procrastination and the irrational
Mark considers how we can harness creativity in the research process to derive original insights, and shows how some of the best new ideas arise from the greatest personal and professional challenges.
Health Coaching by Dr. Joyce Reed
A Health Coach is a whole-health professional and expert in behaviour change, working in a partnership with clients who want to make sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their whole-health and wellness.
Dr Joyce Reed is a trained NHS doctor working in the NHS for more than a decade and qualified Health Coach. She is offering unique individual coaching tailored to your life circumstances and existing diagnoses, helping to achieve better control of work life balance, weight, or stress to help you feel more in control of your health. In addition to this, given her deep and broad experience of health and coaching she can also work alongside anyone with specific diagnoses to gain a greater level of health and control over symptoms via lifestyle changes.
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