If you want a lecturing post at a university, you probably will need to have a PhD. But there’s more to academia than lecturing and more to research than academia.
There are plenty of exciting roles for aspiring scholars and scientists in teaching, research administration, public engagement and science communications, research technicians etc. The majority of these actually require a PhD.
This is one of the most crucial steps, not just because this will decrease the chance of you receiving a rejection (which would save you from feeling demoralised), but because if you publish your paper in the right circle
When I received the revise and resubmit decision with a long list of proposed corrections, my instinctive reaction was to panic. But do not panic. A revise and resubmit decision is usually good news because it means you have room for negotiation with the journal editor
The first thing I would recommend doing is reading through it all, and then sorting out all the comments you have received methodologically so that it’ll be easier for you to address the reviewers’ concerns and make changes based on them.
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