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Enrolment is open on our latest online course ‘Research and Proposal Writing in the Sciences’.

Researchers must ensure confidentiality of their subjects' personal information identifiers. They must be digitally literate to know how to minimize the risks of a data breach.

This post features tips on preprints, visual abstracts, online presentations, and more. They come from the new edition of a book with longtime AuthorAID participant Barbara Gastel as lead author. 

This blog highlights some of the ways to navigate ethical challenges in qualitative research. 

The AuthorAID Stewards team has collected some of the most outlandish email subject lines used by predatory publishers to convince you to use their questionable services.

Without having met in person, Md Abid Hasan and Dr Haseeb Md Irfanullah recently collaborated successfully in designing, conducting and publishing research. Here are their reflections.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, there is a need for scientists and policymakers to learn about the latest research findings quickly. Do you think preprints are the answer or …

Establishing and maintaining an effective and productive mentor–mentee relationship requires significant work. Dr. Balogun shares ideas on the effective use of the AuthorAID platform to build and maintain a productive relationship.

Academics suffer from various mental health challenges as a result of the pressure inherent to working in academia. Dr. Yunusa-Kaltungo recounts how she decided to become a freelance researcher and keep her mental health intact. 

Only 29% of people in Africa have Internet access. This may cause sampling biases, in turn resulting in incorrect predictions of the behaviour of one's survey variables.