Let’s Talk About Love: Academia, Family, & Relationships
An anonymous contributor reflects on the relationship between love and academia, and on whether the former can really be applied to our work.
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Trauma & the PhD
Vicki Adams is a PhD student in English Literature, and shares her insight into what it’s like to go through higher education as a sufferer of abuse and trauma.
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OCD vs. PhD: A Life in Two Halves
An anonymous contributor shares the positives and negatives of working in academia with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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Everything Else Can Wait: Managing Mental Health Issues During My PhD
An anonymous guest blogger shares their story of adjusting to their mental health issues during her PhD with the help of institutional support services.
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Life as a High-Functioning Depressive PhD
An anonymous guest blogger diversifies the perceptions of depression by reflecting on their experiences of being a high-functioning depressive.
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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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20/06/2016 “The New Academic: Career Development & Social Media for ECRs” (University of Exeter)
I’m excited to have been asked to deliver two workshops for PhD students and early-career researchers at the University of Exeter: one on how to strategically develop your CV in the pursuit of an academic career, the other on how social media can act as a useful tool academic career development. If you’d like to […]
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Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media, & Employability
I delivered this invited talk as part of an event called The Digital Academic, organised by Jobs.ac.uk and Piirus and held on 23 March 2015 at the University of Warwick. The aim of this session was to introduce ECRs and PhDs to how social media can help your academic profile, skills, and career prospects, but […]
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Academia & Social Media: Practices, Politics, Problems
This post is both a continuation of my previous thoughts on social media in academia, and the product of several workshops and talks I’ve been asked to give on the topic this past year. Most notably, it is a response to and follow-up from a presentation and spirited discussion on social media at an impressive […]
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The New Academic: Developing Skills for an Academic Career
This one-day training session is aimed at postgraduates and early-career researchers who are hoping to develop an academic career.
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Making Connections Through Social Media
Research Seminar, 30 April 2014, Women’s Research Network, University of East Anglia
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Academic Job Interviews
Academic job interviews can take a variety of forms, and I’ve experienced a few different kinds of job interview – both from the perspective of a candidate, as well as from the perspective of a member of the interview panel. As with any public speaking engagement, preparation is essential and managing your nerves on the […]
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Academic Job Applications
It is notoriously difficult to advise people on how to get shortlisted for an academic job. In the end, someone can satisfy all of the relevant criteria but not get shortlisted simply because someone else satisfies them to a greater degree. The reality is that not all ‘minimally qualified’ candidates can be interviewed; this is […]
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Video Chat: How to Secure a Job after your PhD
Q&A, 22/01/2014, Jobs.ac.uk, Live Video Chat
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Fail Better: Surviving the Slings & Arrows of Academic Fortune
Academia often seems filled to brimming with misanthropy merchants, doom prognosticators and naysayers. It is true, however, that we do have to deal with an unusually high degree of scrutiny, evaluation and appraisal in our professional lives. This can take a toll on even the most Polyanna-ish of characters. It is a tough gig, and […]
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