Lab Manual

Introduction

Hello and welcome to the SPiN Lab! This manual lays out how the lab works, and the expectations of everyone within it

Roles and Responsibilities

PIs

• will have a vision for the lab and be aware of current research in our area

• will be actively submitting funding applications to support the science in the lab

• will support you in your career development

• will dedicate time to meeting with you to help you progress your science

• will provide feedback in a timely manner on your work and applications

Postdoctoral research associates

PDRAs are research positions typically funded from research grants. As a postdoc in the lab you are expected to:

• develop your own independent line of research

• stay on top of the research in your specialist area - become the lab expert

• help to train and mentor students in the lab

• present your work both internally and externally

PhD students

Develop a line of research for your thesis.

• read the literature in your research area

• keep the team updated on your progress

• present your work both internally and externally

• assist in training and supervising undergraduate students

• fulfill all of the various admin requirements of the university on eprog

Open Science

Open publications

It is our lab policy to use pre-prints unless this is not possible. We aim to submit pre-prints simultaneously with the initial submission to the journal. Pre-prints are updated with every major revision to the manuscript that comes as a result of the reviews. We publish open-access whenever possible and always abide by UK research funders rules about making papers publicly available.

Open code

All computational code should be freely available on the GitHub or similar at the time of publication.

Open data

Data should be shared on a public repository at the time of publication.