The New Academic: Academic Careers & Social Media
Keynote, 22 March 2014, Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Programme, Leeds Metropolitan University
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Anxiety & Academia
An anonymous blogger reflects on the relationship between anxiety and academia.
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The Twilight Zone: After the PhD, Before the Academic Job
You’re close to submitting your PhD, to passing your viva voce examination with flying colours, and to be awarded your doctorate. At various stages in these final months of your existence as a PhD student certain scary thoughts – of the practical kind – enter your mind repeatedly and persistently. When will my university email […]
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Academic Juggling: PhD vs CV
Some of the most common questions with which PhD researchers are concerned focus on how they should set their priorities during their doctoral studies. What else, and how much of it, should you do next to researching and writing your thesis? As so often, I can’t answer this for all PhD students in all disciplines, […]
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Giving Conference Presentations
No matter if as part of a seminar or a postgraduate conference at your own university, as part of your job interview, or as a requirement for your annual progress review as a doctoral student, at some point in your academic life you will – for better or worse, some might say – be asked […]
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The Doctor Will Advise You Now
By Elizabeth Gibney, Times Higher Education (24 May 2012), pp.22-23
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