The more aware you are that your academic work presents you with opportunities to learn consciously how to think like an expert management researcher, the more you can make the most of these opportunities. Equally, you can avoid missed opportunities or doing things that might otherwise inhibit your learning. If you are in a position to interact with other students in your community, you will probably be aware what an important source for your learning they can be, just as your contribution can help them.

In other words, you can maximise the speed of your learning by 'learning how to learn': actively seek and make full use of every individual and collective learning opportunity.

To reinforce your thinking about helping yourself to learn, try completing this table. List up to:

• six significant things you can do (‘Dos’)

• six significant things you can avoid doing (‘Don’ts’) - whether working on your own or with other students or academics - to maximise your learning to think like an expert management researcher 

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