- Balancing conflicting work commitments incl. administration
- Balancing work and family commitments
- Bioinformatics/data sharing
- Collaborating with industry
- Creating a research niche
- Dealing with significant ethical and moral issues within research
- Designing and running early phase clinical trials
- Developing a strong publication record
- Managing a team/lab
- Managing difficult people
- Managing internal politics and challenging work relationships
- Media engagement
- Moving into a new research field
- Navigating the research policy arena/working with government
- Patient engagement
- Public engagement and science communication
- Recruiting staff
- Retaining skills
- Returning to academia from industry
- Setting up a lab and developing/managing a team
- Setting up a spin out company or other commercial venture
- Social media/maximising communication technologies
- Successful grant applications
- Supervising students
- Teaching
- Team science/building effective networks
- Working abroad/relocating to another country
- Working in industry
- Working on large international collaborations
- Working with small (research) charities
