From Postgraduate to Social Scientist: A Guide to Key Skills

• Reviewing and writing skills
• Using the Internet
• Research ethics
• Intellectual property rights
• Writing research proposals
• Project management
• Writing a thesis and reports
• Creating presentations, press releases and popular articles
• Teaching skills
• Careers in social science

Nigel Gilbert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. He is the author or editor of 34 books and many academic papers and was the founding editor of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. His current research focuses on the application of agent-based models to understanding social and economic phenomena, especially the emergence of norms, culture, and innovation. He obtained a doctorate in the sociology of scientific knowledge in 1974 from the University of Cambridge and has subsequently taught at the universities of York and Surrey in England. He is one of the pioneers in the field of social simulation and is past president of the European Social Simulation Association. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and of the Royal Academy of Engineering.