Ideas to Generate Projects
- Continue the research of your dissertation or thesis with a new project. Consider collaborating with your dissertation chair or former graduate school classmates, if applicable.
- Ask other professors about their research projects and interests and for possible collaboration opportunities.
- Get involved with undergraduate research on campus. Help develop potential co-authors and future collaborators from successful students.
- Present at academic conferences to solicit feedback on your research and network for future projects.
- Contact federal or state agencies about data mining opportunities to help them analyze and publish their data.
- Consider scholarship in teaching and learning. Can you create a research study around a new assignment or innovative course design change? Publish your results in a SOTL journal.
Ideas For Publications
- Write and publish multiple journal articles or a book from your dissertation or thesis. Your literature review can be edited into a journal article.
- Write a summary article or literature review from the background section of your grant or research proposal.
- Don’t give up. Carefully edit and address reviewers’ criticisms of failed grant proposals or journal articles and resubmit.
- Volunteer to sit on a peer-review panel for a journal to learn how to write successful articles.
- Consider ways to convert your teaching or clinical activities into publications. For examples: write a case study from a unique patient or group of patients or write an article or book chapter from your lecture or training workshop.
- Set a protected time each week to work on writing or research. Commit to a specific goal for each session.