Research-active clinical organisations are shown to deliver better outcomes and better care, with improved staff recruitment and retention and enhanced morale.6 Instinctively, these are the places we seek out when we need treatment for ourselves or our loved ones. Some psychiatric and mental health services have begun to incorporate protected research and/or education time into job plans, recognising that this is advantageous for enhancing clinical care and training, recruitment and retention.

Write a journal article in 12 weeks.

Well this is my first blog post of my own, and it seems fitting that I should use this opportunity to talk about new beginnings. Today we are going to meet to discuss this year’s Ph.D. applicants.  While the particulars are confidential I would like to take this opportunity to talk about what I thought…

The Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers. It aims to provide you with examples of some of the phraseological "nuts and bolts" of writing organised under the headings to the left. It was designed primarily with international students whose first language is not English in mind. However, if you are a native speaker writer, you may still find parts of the material helpful.