Avoiding Self-Plagiarism: When Faculty Write About Their Own Published Work
Worried about reusing your own published work in your PhD thesis? Learn how to ethically paraphrase, cite, and transform prior publications to avoid self-plagiarism.
Worried about reusing your own published work in your PhD thesis? Learn how to ethically paraphrase, cite, and transform prior publications to avoid self-plagiarism.
Coordinating research across multiple campuses? Learn how to handle IEC approvals, encrypt data transfers, and draft data-sharing agreements for ethical, secure collaboration.
Protect student privacy with practical anonymization techniques in R. Learn how to remove direct identifiers, redact sensitive comments, and secure mapping keys.
Conducting research on your own students or colleagues? This step-by-step guide for Indian faculty covers IEC/IRB approval, ethics protocols, consent safeguards, and submission best practices.
Ensure transparency by properly declaring funding sources and multiple affiliations in your research. This guide includes best practices, sample texts, and journal-ready templates.
Serving as both Department Head and PhD student creates ethical tensions. This guide outlines how to delegate, disclose, and document your dual roles transparently.
Learn why researching your own students raises ethical concerns and how to safeguard autonomy with alternative recruitment methods and IRB-ready consent scripts.
Discover how to ethically involve research assistants or graduate students in your PhD work by defining clear tasks, safeguarding credit, and promoting skill development.
Discover how faculty–PhD students can use time-blocking to protect writing time, reduce context-switching, and make steady dissertation progress—even during busy semesters.
Discover how micro-writing can help busy PhD researchers produce publishable snippets in just 30 minutes a day. Build habits, beat writer’s block, and finish chapters faster.