Lyme Disease
Amber Davis tells the story of interrupting her PhD due to Lyme Disease, though the nature of her illness was unknown to her at the time.
Read More »Amber Davis tells the story of interrupting her PhD due to Lyme Disease, though the nature of her illness was unknown to her at the time.
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »This one-day training session is aimed at postgraduates and early-career researchers who are hoping to develop an academic career.
Read More »Reflections on anxiety, on its relationship with academia, and why we need to learn to value ourselves.
Read More »Q&A, 22/01/2014, Jobs.ac.uk, Live Video Chat
Read More »An anonymous doctoral researcher recounts their experiences of IBS and the impact it has had on their studies and career.
Read More »By Elizabeth Gibney, Times Higher Education (24 May 2012), pp.22-23
Read More »This is an account of my first (and so far only) academic job interview, including how I prepared, and the questions I was asked.
Read More »23 October 2010, University of Leicester
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