On February 23th, the University of Granada offered a
seminar entitled "Desarrollo de la Carrera
Investigadora para alumnado de máster y doctorado: opciones de financiación,
internacionales y nacionales".
This seminar, was mainly focused on the areas of Humanities, Social and Legal
Sciences, and it gave to students the opportunity to know the different options
to develop a research career.
All students interested in being a future researcher
should know that it is a hard and time consuming business. However, and if it
is your dream, you never will
surrender you. And the best option is that you start to focus your actions to achieve
that objective.
Some tips we have learned in this seminar are:
1.
The first step is to identify in what calls you are most interested, and
then you have to know what are the requirements that you need to have.
2.
Scientific research is also relevant. Don’t matter if you have written
articles, books, or book chapters. The real value of those research papers
depends on the quality of
the journal or on the number of the co-authors. In this seminar we
have learned that it is better to be a single author. But, and on the other
hand, if you have co-authors you can have a more publications.
3.
Is really important that these research papers be published in a high
impact scientific journals or prestigious publishers. For example, in economics
and business organization areas, papers published in journals indexed in the "Social Sciences Citation Index” or “Scopus" will have a big value.
4.
To publish your research papers in journals takes some time. Consequently,
it is important that you try to publish your Master Thesis or the first chapter
of your PhD's Dissertation as soon as you have finished it.
5. It is also important to be known in
your research area. However, and besides to analyze your curriculum vitae,
academic departments also look at your profile in social networks or personal's
comments in your blog.
The next image shows different national and
international options regarding financial aid:
On
the website of the Master in Economics you can find the slides of this seminar. There you can find the
information about financial
aid and how to apply for it.
A
final conclusion of this seminar is: “You
have to choose the best option
for you, published as many papers
as you can, and never give up. The trip is
difficult and you should start as
soon as possible.”