title: How to survive in research: advice for the novice investigator.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper, written by the RANZCP Committee for Research, provides an outline for how to survive in research, considering the ingredients likely to contribute to success, the role of supportive structures and the expected challenges. Learning how to survive in research is relevant for both trainees and for Fellows undertaking research at any stage of their career.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Intellectual curiosity, perseverance, frustration tolerance, patience and humility are key for success as a researcher. Selection of the right supervisor is important, as is development and maintenance of a good working supervisor/supervisee relationship. The personal benefits of undertaking research include flexibility in work hours, and improved skills in writing, oral presentations, objectivity, critical thinking, problem solving and project management.
authors.affiliation: Committee for Research, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP), Melbourne, VICUniversity of Queensland, School of Medicine and Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Service, Brisbane, QLD, Australia d.siskind@uq.edu.au.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Siskind
authors.affiliation: Committee for Research, RANZCP, Melbourne, VICUniversity of Queensland, School of Medicine and Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Service, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.affiliation: Committee for Research, RANZCP, Melbourne, VICAcademic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, St Vincent's Health, University of Melbourne, St George's Hospital, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Loi
authors.affiliation: Committee for Research, RANZCP, Melbourne, VICAcademic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra, Australia and Mental Health Service, ACT Health Directorate, Canberra Hospital, Woden, ACT, Australia.
authors.forename: Jeffrey C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Looi
authors.affiliation: Committee for Research, RANZCP, Melbourne, VICGraduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong and Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Matthew D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Macfarlane
authors.affiliation: Committee for Research, RANZCP, Melbourne, VIC, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Merry
authors.affiliation: Committee for Research, RANZCP, Melbourne, VICCentre for Mental Health Policy Research, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
authors.forename: Geoff
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Committee for Research, RANZCP, Melbourne, VICUniversity of Queensland School of Medicine, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kisely
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008611:Mentors; D011570:Psychiatry; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: early career; psychiatry; research