Write for us and support others by sharing your experience!
Our mission is to inspire and motivate PhDs and early career researchers to achieve their full potential and succeed in their academic careers while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Thanks for contributing to Motivated Academic!
We’re teaming up with some of the best minds in the world of research and academia to build a platform for sharing experience and promoting good practice. By working with you, we want to showcase your thought leadership and promote your academic profile.
With that in mind, here are some guidelines and recommendations for each piece of content that you submit.
what we're looking for?
In general, articles we accept for guest content fall under the following themes:
Motivation for researchers
Wellbeing in academia and work-life balance
Academic productivity and time management
Research tools and funding
what we also accept
We also accept articles that aim purely to share your experience, especially when you demonstrate how you overcame a specific challenge in your research and academic career.
While brainstorming what to write about, ask yourself these questions:
- Will this topic be relevant to the Motivated Academic audience?
- Will this post offer solutions, tools, or frameworks?
- Am I qualified to write about this topic?
- What insight can I bring to this topic that nobody else can?
When in doubt, get in touch with me at team@motivatedacademic.com
Note: We accept content from people with experience at different career stages in the industry (R&D) and academia. If you’re a PhD, postdoc or already hold a permanent academic position and want to share your experience – feel free to submit your article!
Guest article content
The guiding light behind our blog is to share content that’s educational, engaging, and entertaining… not product-focused or promotional.
We’ve built a high level of trust with our audience because they know we care about the quality of content we produce for them. We always try to give more than we promised. That is why we want to keep our content focused on the practical aspects of working in academia and research. Tailor your content to answer the following question of our audience: what can I take away from this article and apply today in my research project?
Use our blog to showcase your experience, tips, good practice and reflections. If people find your content valuable, they’ll connect with you directly. We’re also happy to make introductions if our audience asks about your piece of content.
As academics, we like the rules of thumbs. So here are the rules we apply to our content:
We find this is a sweet spot with our readership, and you’ll fit in with the rest of our blog this way. Longer is good, too.
This means including headings, subheadings, bullets, and any other visual elements to increase the readability of your piece. Make sure to fully acknowledge the sources for your figures, images and tables. If in doubt, check out our Academic Talk on plagiarism.
We want to share content that is authoritative, but not robotic. We’re producing blog content – not Wikipedia pages. We encourage you to write it as you were discussing your topic during an academic conference. Don’t shy away from showing off your sense of humour. That said, make sure you respect the audience that will read your article.
We don’t accept duplicate or syndicated content as guest articles. If your article has already been published anywhere else on the web, we can’t publish it on our blog. You wouldn’t submit your research paper for publication in two different journals. Let’s keep our work to the highest ethical standards. If you quote other content, link to it.
We understand that you’re an expert, but our audience might not be so sure. If you’re going to use statistics, pictures, diagrams or tables, link back to the original source.