Academic Jobs
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- Ideal jobs and the post-PhD hunt
- Preparing for Academic Job Interviews
- Informational interviews in the post-PhD job search
- Falling at the Last Hurdle (Dealing with Post-Interview Rejection)
- Lifelong academic?
- Rewriting the story of failure
- Failing to be an academic
- Securing That Academic Job
- Welcome to Job Season!
- First Day Teaching Syndrome
- Trying to find my voice
- These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
- Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- PhD time management!
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The Final Year Panic
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- Life after a PhD
- Keeping up to date
- Why Study for a PhD?
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- New Year, PhD?
- Starting out
- Academics do not just teach
- Quasi-academic jobs
- Postdoc advice 2
- Postdoc Advice
- A Humanities Perspective
- Higher Education Teaching Certification
- EPSRC Funding Applications
- Academic Jobs: Disincentives
- Academic job: Incentives
Academic Life
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
- Voices of Authority
- The Devil in the Dark
- It’s Only a Paper Moon
- Turnabout Intruder
- The Icarus Factor
- Encounter at Farpoint: An Interview with an Old Friend
- For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky*
- Did I mention it also travels in time?
- The Unbearable Lightness of Unemployment
- Jenny Walklate, Job Snob for Hire
- Academic Conferences: Small versus Big
- End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!
- Exams: the joy of invigilation and marking!
- The value of networking
- Research and work/life balance
- Higher Education on a global scale
- Funding challenges in the arts
- How to end your career!
- Becoming a better teacher: plagiarism
- Building a portfolio academic career
- Balancing research and teaching
- A good leader: could it be you?
- Becoming a lecturer: is it worth it?!
- Improving the treatment of PhD students
- Promotion: achieving it in today’s climate
- Is academia still a viable career?
- Careers Resolutions: plans for 2011
- Last week of term: time to take stock!
- Academic career path: where are you going?
- Marking and improving your time management
- Getting your CV out there!
- Reading week: another name for half-term?
- Taking a sideways move to another university
- Universities: the future?
- Advantages and disadvantages of ‘portfolio careers’
- Welcoming new students, and making sure we keep them
- Time management: is missing a deadline ever OK?
- Induction Week: and we’re off!
- Countdown to the start of term!
- Time management: the art of saying ‘no’!
- Interviews: advice from the other side of the desk!
- Humanities research: pros and cons of online!
- The Managed University
- Importance of student exchanges
- Presentation skills
- Should we publish less or more?
- Conferences: how to choose between them
- No, I’m not on holiday for the next 2 months!
- Teaching as a postgraduate
- Conference papers and presenting a good one
- Students do less work shock!
- The importance of being organised!
- Merit pay: a good idea?
- Research: the joy and the pain!
- Marking: the worst part of the job?
- Jobs outside university
- Commuting: make the most of your time
- Admissions tutor job: what does it involve?
- Private Higher Education
- The virtues of planning ahead!
- Teaching and research: how to juggle both!
- Research during term time: is it possible?
- What interview panels are looking for
- What is a seminar?
- Advice on starting a new academic job
- Need a job? It’s not too late!
- Clearing week
- How to get a job: good advice!
- Networking online: how to start?
- Portfolio careers: pros and cons
- Marking season is upon us!
- Invigiliation duties
- Desk-bound research: a good thing or not?
- Lack of job security: PhD students reject academia
- Writing a book while teaching: is it possible?
- Jobseeking tips for those who already have a job
- Do you have any hobbies? What to include on application forms!
- Commuting…a reassessment.
- Academic buzzword no. 1 : skills!
- It’s official, I’m no longer a probationer!
- A Day in the Life…
- Interview advice…an alternative
- Seminars and tutorials: getting students talking!
- Research leave: a difficult decision
- The start of my second year!
- Impact of government policies: some thoughts!
- The minefield of research funding
- Rate my professors controversy!
- Contributing to ‘clearing’
- Greetings from the library!
- Technology in the Classroom: part 2
- Privatisation in HE: interesting developments
- It’s that time again: graduation!
- End of year report
- Would you lie in a job interview?
- Marking season well under-way!
- Job market challenges no. 389: the academic couple!
- Butcher, baker, candlestick maker?
- That mythical quiet period….?
Academics
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- 10 Career Paths for PhDs
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- Evidence is power and its communication must be governed
- Grant-Writing – the Realities of Postdoc Research!
- Surviving the viva
- 12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
- Journal clubs: an interesting tradition
- You Don’t Use The Library
- You Have Office Envy
- You Are A Fraud
- You Think You Work
- Writing well at work: what I have learned from being a writer
- Coping with uncertainty at work
- Digital Skills: What Are They And How Are Yours?
- The Value Of Lurking
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- Academics, Are You Linked In?
- The planning fallacy: Underestimating your task completion times
- Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- The Digital Academic: Blogging tips from Thesis Whisperer Inger Mewburn
- The summer research To Do list
- Co-authoring with students
- Beware the predatory publisher
- The hunt for literature
- Breaking the publishing barrier
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- What Makes a PhD?
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- Keeping up to date
- Pregnancy during your PhD
- Why Study for a PhD?
- Diving In
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- Finding Inspiration
- Surviving at conferences…
- Love your PhD
- Starting out
- Research experience before PhD
- End of the road
- The sum is greater than the parts
- Keeping track of latest research
- Publishing before the PhD
- Wireless Presenter
- PhD Comics
- Research: role of problem creating
- BCTCS
- Algorithmic Decision Theory
- Credit Crunch
- PhD Dissertation
- Elements of Style
- Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes
- Timely Communication
- Refereeing
- How to Write Mathematics
- Letters to a Young Mathematician
- Thesis Writing: Benefits of Latex
- Academic Writing
Academics
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- An Update (or, I’ve been away because…)
- Self-reflexivity as good academic practice
- Lifelong academic?
- Is ‘ECR’ fit for purpose in the Humanities?
- First Day Teaching Syndrome
- These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- PhD time management!
- My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
Academics
- Higher Education and Twitter: Five things we have learned from Tweeting
- Working with challenging or difficult students
All Things Research
- PhD Vlog: Doing a PhD in Denmark
- 10 Career Paths for PhDs
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Competencies needed for collaboration
- 5 small things that make a difference to digital contact
- A blueprint for a more joined-up approach to research communication
- #whywedoresearch: more than a hashtag, it is the foundation of a way of life
- Playing the research game
- Governing research evidence: What you need to know about the big evidence debate
- How “inter” do you go in your research? A look at interdisciplinary research
- Keep on running: what inspires PhD students to become runners?
- Evidence is power and its communication must be governed
- How I stay inspired, for effective visual communication of research
- Academic articles and non-academic inspiration
- Research communication – are we getting it right when targeting policy and practice?
- A Critical Ka-Pow – Researchers in popular culture
- The Academic Art of Minimalism
- Communication, Communication, Communication
- Making research space & building a career: the postdoc stage
- Insights from the Research Impact Summit, an interview with Dr Tamika Heiden
- Competencies needed for research collaboration: an infographic
- Revisiting and reviving “homeless” journal papers
- Interview with Dr Olivia Kirtley: Dismantling presumption
- Peer Review Week 2016: reviews in the open
- Am I a PhD ECR? What is an Early Career Researcher?
- On small goodnesses
- Collaborating on an international scale: our tips
- Brexit and the UK researcher: an uncertain path
- Interdisciplinary and international research: a local case
- Cracking the code for effective research communication
- Facing your worst funding proposal fears
- Leading a group to collaborate creatively
- Reference Management Software Zotero
- Norway series. How to fight off a barbarian invasion!
- Where next for the career breaks survey?
- Norway series. Collaboration: a (sixth-century) barbarian invasion?
- A preview of the career break landscape
- How do you find conferences to attend? Some useful sources
- Goodbye yellow brick road! Putting the method into teaching research methodology
- Don’t get mad, get better: A story of receiving peer review comments
- How to draft a research grant application
- The Perils of Isolation – Both Social and Academic
- Connecting researchers to great opportunities: exploring and expanding your research interests
- Surviving the viva
- Can collaboration speed-up researcher development?
- How do you say “no”? 11 approaches you can try!
- Finding the human in your research idol
- 7 ways to make the first move when strengthening your network
- The path to research independence : four tips
- How to be an academic rockstar: 5 amazing benefits of collaboration
- Journal clubs: an interesting tradition
- Using museum collections for academic research
- Depth versus breadth in research
- Writing about my research interest on expressive writing
- Interprofessional education – considering the research agenda
- Harnessing the power of research for teachers and teacher educators
- Norway series part II: government policy for the humanities
- Let’s talk science: tips for sharing your research with colleagues and the public
- Tweeting about research and researching about Twitter: a story of collaboration
- The rush to create networks and the need to create conversation spaces
- How to write instructions for others in 9 steps
- Strengthening research through collaborative partnership
- Interview with Dr Tim Rudd of Livelab: tips on collaborating with third and public sector organisations
- Interview with the British Psychological Society President Jamie Hacker Hughes
- Self-doubt, perfectionism and common insecurities during research work
- Building and promoting research partnership: interview with Scott Furtwengler
- In focus: creating collaborative partnerships for international development
- Researchers are not islands: insights on collaboration
- Tweet with a hashtag: 13 tags for new academics!
- How do you run a crowdfunding campaign? 12 Useful tips! (Part 2)
- How do you run a crowdfunding campaign? 12 useful tips! (Part 1)
- The negative impact of not teaching about “impact”
- The negative impact of not teaching about “impact”
- Conflicts of interest: pedagogy, professional practice and research
- Considering crowdsourcing in academia: tips on offer
- Writing styles: a thorny issue
- Building research partnerships & promoting research: An Interview with Dr. Carlos García Aparicio
- Conference report: 50th Anniversary International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo 2015
- My Shelfie! A real-life research workspace
- The art of planning in science
- Rewards of a role writing research funding bids. An interview with Lachlan Smith
- Contracts, Costings, Collaboration and the Juggling Act as Research Administrator. An interview with Mary Caspillo-Brewer
- Learning about the role of a research manager. An interview with Alex Challis
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
- Ten conference evaluation questions: choosing a conference to present at
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- The Digital Academic: Blogging tips from Thesis Whisperer Inger Mewburn
- Conference preparations: the jet set life of a researcher
- Conferences at their best! Tips from our Social Sciences Correspondent
- Conference slides: the art of show and tell
- Please Take My Business Card . . . making connections at conferences
- A round-up of the UK’s REF2014 on social media. How do you measure research?
- #AcWriMo. Why I don’t write at home, from our Social Science correspondent
- Making the most of conferences
- Four infographics with tips on academic writing
- Tips for presenting and publishing collaborative research, from a scientist
- Four issues when undertaking collaborative projects
- How to start a research collaboration
- Making research collaborations: building relationships
- The summer research To Do list
- Co-authoring with students
- Beware the predatory publisher
- The hunt for literature
- Breaking the publishing barrier
- The benefits and challenges of mobility
- Back in the lab: molecular self-assembly on surfaces
- Confidence: the essential requirement for tenure?
- Taking a fresh look at past papers
- Finishing the job: how can we help students turn a thesis into publications?
- A step back gives a wider view
- Finishing that first postdoc: a critical moment
- Impact, inspiration and interdisciplinarity: interview with Charlotte Mathieson
- Returning to Science: on Ada Lovelace day
- Money, Papers, and People: An interview with Ian Hancox and Luke Rochford
Alternative Career Pathways
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- 10 Career Paths for PhDs
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Getting over post-interview blues
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- How Academics are Helping Entrepreneurs Help Academics
American History
- Histories of cinema: Spoilers alert! The first audiences of Psycho (1960)
- Histories of cinema: Yakima Canutt, the chariot race and the blind spot
- Teaching at Masters Level
- New Year, New Challenges?
- End of term at last!
- American History Reading Group
- American history scholarship: the European connection
- Pros and cons of working outside America
- Myths of American History
- African History portal
- Large Academic Conferences: should I go?
- Teaching censorship: a useful resource
- The experience of non-whites in Europe
- New Economic History?
- Survey courses: what is the priority?
- Let the conferencing begin!
- History or American Studies?
- Best History Sites internet hub
- Colonial America: the forgotten Americanists?
- American History Teaching Resource
Application
- Managing The Transition From Master’s to PhD – Top Ten Tips
- #jobsQ Live Video Hangout: Postgraduate Options – Is a PhD for me?
- Should I Do A PhD?
- A Guide to Doing a PhD in Germany
- Writing a Successful PhD Application
- Keeping up to date
- Accept Me, Accept Me Not: Applying for PhDs
Arts And Humanities
- Reflections on a happy ending: 1. A question of perspective (Brief Encounter, 1945, dir. David Lean)
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- The role of the media in Muslim-majority countries
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- The summer research To Do list
- Beware the predatory publisher
- The hunt for literature
- Breaking the publishing barrier
Astronomy & Space Communication
Blogroll
Blogs We Read
- Are employees costing organisations £1.3 billion in personal social networking?
- Digital Marketing Careers Advice
Business English
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- Can I Get a TEFL Job in China?
- TEFL: Needs Analysis
- Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Teaching Conversational English
- TOEIC, or not TOEIC?
Career Advice
- How to create a stand-out academic CV
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- How to stay motivated during your job search
- PhD Vlog: Doing a PhD in Denmark
- 10 Career Paths for PhDs
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Getting over post-interview blues
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- How Academics are Helping Entrepreneurs Help Academics
- 5 small things that make a difference to digital contact
- How can we help academic colleagues to stay healthy? Experience & ideas
- Well into your PhD? 5 helpful career planning topics
- Are you procrastinating? Or opening yourself to inspiration…
- Relocation, relocation, relocation: The art of moving
- Working 5 to 9: how many hours are enough?
- Mobility, Freedom and the 4-Hour Work Week
- Have academic career goals, will travel
- Consultancy reflections: An interview with Rob Johnson, founder of Research Consulting, Part 2
- Creating a company: An interview with Rob Johnson, founder of Research Consulting, Part 1
- Habits and routines that help maximise focus
- Before you say Yes: 3 questions to ask yourself (And I’m not talking about marriage!)
- Making research space & building a career: the postdoc stage
- Being on the receiving end of “no”. How do you handle it?
- ‘I’m busy’ part 2: it’s a problem
- Finding Your People: Mentors, Collaborators, and Guardian Angels
- ‘I’m busy’ part 1: good kinds of busy
- Saying No: Why it’s important to be brave
- Rethinking leave – to stop or not to stop this holiday season
- US Doctorate Earners and Their Earning Potential: What Do We Know?
- How to create a professional persona for academic consultancy
- What do you want to be when you grow up?
- Interview with Dr Olivia Kirtley: Dismantling presumption
- How to write in a language that is not your own
- Writing through a fear of writing – featuring 3 most helpful steps.
- Tricks from an expert: how to identify your skills and boost your confidence
- How do you make a portfolio career work for you?
- Task management and the art of the to do list
- Tips and tricks for managing new clients as an academic consultant (Part 2 of 2)
- Tips and tricks for managing new clients as an academic consultant (Part 1 of 2)
- 10 ways consultancy differs to research
- 5 Interview Question Suggestions for Faculty-Research Positions
- 8 attributes of great consultants
- 10 actions that will help you get ready for consultancy work
- The Comeback Kid: Returning to research after a career break
- Where next for the career breaks survey?
- A preview of the career break landscape
- How do you find conferences to attend? Some useful sources
- Knowledge without borders: Reflections and guidance on entering the world of academic consultancy
- National Teachers and Advisers Conference 2016; University of Manchester
- Working at home: where does all the time go? 5 hazards to watch out for!
- How do you say “no”? 11 approaches you can try!
- What do you need, to work freelance? 8 key ingredients!
- 7 ways to make the first move when strengthening your network
- 5 tips for returning to work after a career break
- First Day Teaching Syndrome
- Building a picture of the impact of academic career breaks
- Plain speaking and clear understanding: 5 tips for networking face to face
- Dealing with the Darkness: How to find strength in yourself and in others
- Seven steps to DIY professional development
- Lessons from the farm: coping with uncertainty in academic life
- Saying No (Nicely)
- 5 Common Regrets of University Graduates
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- The Menagerie, Part II
- Working on a Science Park
- Standing at the career crossroads
- The Menagerie, Part I
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- You are more than the sum of your thesis
- The Deadly Years; or, I’ll live – and I’ll enjoy it!
- Transdisciplinary Facilitators
- We Who Are About To….
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Think Negative! Reframing Positivethink…
- Time-management strategies for job-hunters
- Keeping Track of Applications and Related Materials
- I’m a job seeker. Find me a vacancy now.
- Building A Career-Search Network As A New Graduate
- Motivation, motivation, motivation!
- Torment of Tantalus
- #AcWriMo. Shut up and write! By our Social Sciences Correspondent
- The Parliament of Dreams
- What to do when you don’t know what to do!
- Warning: Shift work may be ageing!
- Getting your CV ready for employment after graduating
- Motivate yourself to keep writing : ten tips on staying positive and keeping going
- Masters Application Tips & Advice Ebook
- Reach for the stars (but don’t be dazzled by the brightest)
- Blogging about staff development: a cautionary tale
- The Wanderground
- 10 (non techy) tips for studying music production!
- Results day … and what the hell is clearing?
- 4 Steps to Make Your Graduate CV ‘Job Ready’!
- Writers Needed To Produce Content About Working In China
- Applying for a lecturing post (and getting yourself an interview)
- CVs: Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- Forget graduate schemes, work for an SME!
- It’s never OK to kiss the interviewer (Free Prize Draw)
- No one ever dreams of working in the insurance industry…
- Are universities failing students?
- 6 tips to give you the best start at university
- Dealing with The Interview Daemon.
- Graduating soon? LinkedIn should be your new best friend
- Applying for a management position
- How to Help your Boomerang Kids
- What are the benefits of being a PhD student?
- How to get paid experience through Task Squad
- Using your birthday to reflect on the past
- CV writing for every occasion
- 5 ways to avoid age discrimination
- How not to tell someone ‘no’ on LinkedIn
- Nick Clegg urges young people to ignore tuition fee myths
- The good and the bad of a PhD
- Becoming an associate lecturer
- A pessimist is never disappointed…
- ‘Golden hello’ for maths graduates!
- Want to survive the job hunt? Learn to manage your expectations
- Are we on the verge of an ‘entry level’ digital jobs boom?
- Ties of Blood and Water
- Commuting my way to course leader
- Cycles of learning and development, all year round…
- I tried to think of a funny title for this one, but I couldn’t: Humour and job seeking.
- Career spotlight: Working as a podiatrist
- 3 reasons why now is a great time to look for a job!
- Think before mentioning an employer on Twitter
- The Gamesters of Triskelion
- Blog your way to career success
- Presenting yourself, not just your presentation…
- Cast your (job search) net wider!
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Is early retirement good for you?
- 5 things you should do to get the most out of your internship
- Volunteering: for love not money
- To ink or not to ink, that is the question!
- No, square pegs don’t fit into round holes: Choose a different shaped hole rather than ‘reshape your edges’.
- Returning to the job market
- LinkedIn: The right way to connect
- Most of what you say doesn’t count….
- Making Changes
- When should I include interests on a CV?
- Are we any good at career planning?
- Likability – is it the X Factor at interview?
- My job search is bad enough – Get off my back!
- What are your weaknesses?
- Interview Question: Tell me about yourself
- Leaving A Job After A Few Weeks
- The 4 guiding principles of success
- What do you want your obituary to say about you?
- Odd interview questions and how to cope with them!
- 4 Sure fire signs that you’ve done well in an interview!
- Resilience is Futile?
- Career Profiles – worth the effort of writing one?
- The career successes of Narcissists
- Recruiters: Use them, but don’t abuse them!
- Impact at Interviews
- Feeling the Sunday night blues
- 4% drop in graduate vacancies!
- Help Your Teen Get A Summer Job
- Taking a gap year: Benefits and pitfalls
- What’s stopping you from changing career?
- Anxiety of Job Hunting – can it be an advantage?
- The shotgun approach
- So, what makes the difference from us to those people ‘happy’ in their career?
- Job hunting tips from Forbes recruiters
- Do you have FOMO? Its “fear of missing out”!
- My rejection letters are piling up, what should I do?
- What to wear to interviews?
- Have you got cover letters covered?
- Rise in UK job vacancies over past six months – are we all ok now?
- Over qualified for jobs?
- I hate people – what jobs can I do?
- Can evolutionary psychology help us at interview?
- Things not to add to your CV
- Always known what you wanted to do when you grew up?
- Where do we fit in?
- So….. tell me about yourself…..
- Faking it – Projecting Confidence at Interview
- Things a Viking Taught Me
- Career Choice and Values
- Sending subtle hints that you want a new job
- How to make a CV stand out?
- Job hunting. Career change. Kelly Clarkson.
- CV or Resume – which should you go for?
- The Jaws that Bite: Or, On Rejection.
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- Life after a PhD
- Dealing with Monotony in your PhD
- Diving In
- New Year, PhD?
- Surviving at conferences…
- Love your PhD
- Using The Big Three Social Networks to Recruit
- A day in the life of a PhD student
- Starting out
- PhDs in the insurance industry
- Publishing before the PhD
- How to Have a Bad Research Career
- The job hunting roller coaster
Career Advice
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- What’s your plan?
- Boogie-Woogie Feng Shui
- Voices of Authority
- Spider in the Web
- Movements of Fire and Shadow
- Plato’s Stepchildren
- Court Martial: Dealing with Negativity
- Patterns of Force: Doing things you didn’t expect, beyond the boundaries you set yourself
- Intersections in Real Time
- Ballad of Fallen Angels
- Balance of Terror*
- Make It So
- A Taste of Armageddon*
- It’s Only a Paper Moon
- Encounter at Farpoint: An Interview with an Old Friend
- Jenny Walklate, Job Snob for Hire
- Academic Conferences: Small versus Big
- Real jobseekers’ problems!
Career Changes
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Getting over post-interview blues
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- Standing at the career crossroads
- You are more than the sum of your thesis
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Think Negative! Reframing Positivethink…
- Keeping Track of Applications and Related Materials
- Building A Career-Search Network As A New Graduate
- Reach for the stars (but don’t be dazzled by the brightest)
- Applying for a lecturing post (and getting yourself an interview)
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- Using your birthday to reflect on the past
- Commuting my way to course leader
- Career spotlight: Working as a podiatrist
- Blog your way to career success
- Volunteering: for love not money
- No, square pegs don’t fit into round holes: Choose a different shaped hole rather than ‘reshape your edges’.
- Returning to the job market
- When should I include interests on a CV?
- Are we any good at career planning?
- My job search is bad enough – Get off my back!
- What do you want your obituary to say about you?
- Feeling the Sunday night blues
- What’s stopping you from changing career?
- Job hunting. Career change. Kelly Clarkson.
Career Paths
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Getting over post-interview blues
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- Your alternative academic identity: learning the rules?
- In focus: creating collaborative partnerships for international development
Career Planning
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- Standing at the career crossroads
- You are more than the sum of your thesis
- Transdisciplinary Facilitators
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Think Negative! Reframing Positivethink…
- Building A Career-Search Network As A New Graduate
- Motivation, motivation, motivation!
- Reach for the stars (but don’t be dazzled by the brightest)
- 10 (non techy) tips for studying music production!
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- Using your birthday to reflect on the past
- ‘Golden hello’ for maths graduates!
- Volunteering: for love not money
- No, square pegs don’t fit into round holes: Choose a different shaped hole rather than ‘reshape your edges’.
- Returning to the job market
- When should I include interests on a CV?
- Are we any good at career planning?
- My job search is bad enough – Get off my back!
- What are your weaknesses?
- What do you want your obituary to say about you?
- Feeling the Sunday night blues
- 4% drop in graduate vacancies!
- Taking a gap year: Benefits and pitfalls
- What’s stopping you from changing career?
- Job hunting. Career change. Kelly Clarkson.
Careers Advice & Job Information
- How to create a stand-out academic CV
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- Impact: how cultural factors vary its definition
- A Winter’s Tale – from PhD to post-doc
- The beautiful game, by the greatest artists in Europe presented by the past masters
- Funding Applications and Good News
- Surviving the viva
- These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Publish or Perish Post-PhD?
- Voices of Authority
- Life after a PhD
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- Academics, Are You Linked In?
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- The Devil in the Detail – What’s in a Name?
- Let the conferencing begin!
- Interview tips webinar
- The Hybrid
- New Year, PhD?
- Careers Resolutions: plans for 2011
- Getting your CV out there!
- The Power of Graphs
- Grant Applications
- Funding For Travel
- Vitae
- EPSRC Funding Applications
- Career building: set up your own networks
- Is your CV a work of fiction?!
- Career building while at the coal-face
Careers Advice & Job Information
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- The Best Book of Quotes: Famous Quotes for Life and Happiness
- A Good Spanish Book
- Training in equality and diversity: the pilot and the nurse
- Teamwork: Helping Your Department Colleagues Succeed
- Which English To Teach?
- Preparing A Cultural Exposition
- Academic Bureaucracy Is Discouraging
- My Research Strategies
- Spanish Studies
- Everything I did wrong…
- Quick Tips For Teachers
- Improving Your Spanish Program: Literature
- The God Of Languages: The Specialized Native Teacher
- Technology Tips For Teachers: Projectors And Mobiles In The Class
- Improving Your Spanish Language Program: Equatorial Guinea
- The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
- Fishing in a smaller pond: looking for jobs online
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- Can Creative Writing be Taught?
- The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
- Are You A Digital Researcher?
- NUS survey on financial support
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- Research and Teaching: the Stretch
- Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
- Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
- The PhD Application Handbook
- Disposable PhD?
- Pridefully Oblivious
Careers Advice & Job Information
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- How to stay motivated during your job search
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- Confidence in personal and professional life, PhD edition
- Talking about unemployed PhDs
- Confidence and post-PhD transitions
- Dispatches from 9 to 5 or post-PhD myth busting
- Informational interviews in the post-PhD job search
- Career resources for the post-PhD job hunt
- Post-PhD job hunt and recruitment agencies
- Coaching to support post-PhD journeys
- On serial dating and job interviewing
- From A to B via a rather scenic route
Case Studies
- Reflections on a happy ending: 1. A question of perspective (Brief Encounter, 1945, dir. David Lean)
- Interview with Dr Olivia Kirtley: Dismantling presumption
Cinema History
- Reflections on a happy ending: 1. A question of perspective (Brief Encounter, 1945, dir. David Lean)
- Histories of cinema: Japanese acrobats, Fred dancing upside down and Joseph flying across the room. The camera never lies?
- Histories of cinema: When Georges Mélies discovered special effects
- Histories of cinema: When censorship backfires. Watching Gilda in dictatorship Spain
- Histories of cinema: Spoilers alert! The first audiences of Psycho (1960)
- Histories of cinema: Yakima Canutt, the chariot race and the blind spot
Classics
- Mary Bennet’s Hollywood ending: a feminist ending?
- Arts and/ or Sciences: how to solve the riddle of the sphinx
- Everything I did wrong…
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- Fahrenheit 451: The day they destroyed the library
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Latin lingua viva est: why the Classics are necessary
- Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Hero Worship
Commercial Business Jobs
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
Communication
- Paris belonged to me: an homage to Jacques Rivette
- My Research Strategies
- Everything I did wrong…
- The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
- Turning forty: the age of reason?
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- A lecture is a performance: do not forget your audience
- Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- After the Riots
- Research and Teaching: the Stretch
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
- Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
Communication
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Presenting your PhD
- Giving back during your PhD
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Communicating science
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- Finding Inspiration
- Surviving at conferences…
- Timely Communication
Computer Science
- AAIM 2009
- Turing Award 2008
- The Power of Graphs
- Good Mathematics
- AAMAS 2009
- RAE 2008: A look at theoretical computer science
- Economics and Computer Science
- BCTCS
- Modeling Systems
- Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes
Conferences
- Academic Conferences: Small versus Big
- Presentation skills
- Conferences: how to choose between them
- Conference papers and presenting a good one
- AAIM 2009
- AAMAS 2009
- Algorithmic Decision Theory
- Opportunities in Singapore
- Funding For Travel
- Conference Update
- Academic Posters
- Thank-you Notes
- Conference Organization – Part I
Conferences & Networking
- Teamwork: Helping Your Department Colleagues Succeed
- Everything I did wrong…
- The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Are You A Digital Researcher?
- Creative Writing: blogging about it
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- Research and Teaching: the Stretch
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
Conferences And Networking
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- A Winter’s Tale – from PhD to post-doc
- Starting blogging
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
- Lady Librarian becomes Revalidated Fellow
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- The Digital Academic: Blogging tips from Thesis Whisperer Inger Mewburn
- October 2015 – only 7 months away!
- Making the most of conferences
- Do You Practise What You Preach?
- Do Blogs and Social Media Matter? What Makes a Good Blog?
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- Suddenly, there’s a lot to do!
- Back in the lab: molecular self-assembly on surfaces
- Communicating science
- Spectrum Crowding
- GPS and LightSquared Coexistence
- Large Academic Conferences: should I go?
- New Economic History?
- Let the conferencing begin!
- Colonial America: the forgotten Americanists?
Consultancy
Create Research Connections
Creative Arts
- Successful Grant Application, Submitted PGCert portfolio
- And the Next Step?
- Claimed from Stationers’ Hall
- Grant-Writing – the Realities of Postdoc Research!
- Being a Music Librarian: Never a Typical Day
- Finding your humanities PhD project
- 40% Researcher? Yes, Indeed!
- Knitting, Lunacy Laws and the hunt for Patient Publications: Doing a PhD in the Medical Humanities
- 10 Things you might encounter, when you consult rare documents in an archive
- Lady Librarian becomes Revalidated Fellow
- October 2015 – only 7 months away!
- All kinds of conferences: A Brief Typology from our Arts & Humanities Correspondent
- New Year’s Resolutions?
- Do You Practise What You Preach?
- You Only Have to Offer: How I came to author Two Encyclopedia Articles
- Do Blogs and Social Media Matter? What Makes a Good Blog?
- Suddenly, there’s a lot to do!
- Reflective Journals and E-Portfolios
- Teaching Artist?
- The E. T. Bryant Memorial Prize (IAML UK and Ireland)
- Reflective Writing about Libraries Fostering Creativity
- Pirates Wright and Walsh: Under the Book Detective’s Magnifying Glass
- Going Beyond the Comfort Zone
- The Devil in the Detail – What’s in a Name?
- Bagpipes in the LIBRARY?
- Does having a PhD change anything?
- In two minds …
- Minstrels, metaphors and social media
- To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question?
- The Hybrid
Creative Writing
- Mary Bennet’s Hollywood ending: a feminist ending?
- Everything I did wrong…
- A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- On Prose Style: Simplicity Versus Sesquipedalianism
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Two New MAs in Town: Creative Writing at Cambridge, Self-publishing at University of Central Lancashire
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer (Part 2)
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer
- Gunpowder, Reason and Plot: Malcolm Bradbury and the Creative Writing Revolution
- Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Ding Dong The Booker Prize is Dead
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- Can Creative Writing be Taught?
- Creative Writing in the Academy
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Creative Writing: blogging about it
- Rejection and Re-motivation
- Voices in Fiction part 2
- After the Riots
- Running your own live literature night – part two
- Running your own live literature night – part one
- Hero Worship
- World building with Mind Mapping
Cross-research Boundaries
- Evidence is power and its communication must be governed
- Research communication – are we getting it right when targeting policy and practice?
Cultural Studies
- Mary Bennet’s Hollywood ending: a feminist ending?
- Paris belonged to me: an homage to Jacques Rivette
- Preparing A Cultural Exposition
- Spanish Studies
- Arts and/ or Sciences: how to solve the riddle of the sphinx
- Improving Your Spanish Program: Literature
- A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
- Improving Your Spanish Language Program: Equatorial Guinea
- The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- International Women’s Day: The importance of girls’ education
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Gunpowder, Reason and Plot: Malcolm Bradbury and the Creative Writing Revolution
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Ding Dong The Booker Prize is Dead
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- Can Creative Writing be Taught?
- The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- After the Riots
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
CV Tips
- On being “overqualified” on the job market
- These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
- Real jobseekers’ problems!
CV Tips
- How to create a stand-out academic CV
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Voices of Authority
- Life after a PhD
- Careers Resolutions: plans for 2011
- Getting your CV out there!
- Career building: set up your own networks
- Is your CV a work of fiction?!
- Career building while at the coal-face
CVs
- How to create a stand-out academic CV
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Keeping Track of Applications and Related Materials
- Getting your CV ready for employment after graduating
- 4 Steps to Make Your Graduate CV ‘Job Ready’!
- CVs: Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- 5 ways to avoid age discrimination
- When should I include interests on a CV?
- The shotgun approach
- Have you got cover letters covered?
- How to make a CV stand out?
- CV or Resume – which should you go for?
Default
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- 9 tips to follow for a safer job search
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- How photography helped me during my PhD
- Brexit: the multifaceted dimension of its demographic aspect
- Hidden Cosmos Portals
- Reference management and citation software
- Interview advice – tell them the truth they want to hear
- TEFL Jobs: What You Need to Know
- Moving Abroad for TEFL
- Funny English
- TEFL: Coping with Homesickness
Digital Communication
- Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
- SON- Self Organizing Networks
- Spectrum Crowding
Digital Communication
- Evolution in Vehicular Monitoring
- Interference Management in LTE
- Laser Communication in Deep Space
- Pre Eventual System
- GPS and LightSquared Coexistence
- Termed as Scintillation
Digital Technology
- Plickers! Engage your students with learning technology
- How to Create an Academic Website for Free!
- MOOC for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Digital Skills: What Are They And How Are Yours?
- The Value Of Lurking
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Top questions you should ask a university Applicant Tracking System provider
- Augmented reality for university recruitment?
Early 20th Century
- Histories of cinema: Japanese acrobats, Fred dancing upside down and Joseph flying across the room. The camera never lies?
- Histories of cinema: When Georges Mélies discovered special effects
Early Childhood Education
Economics
ECR
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- The Academic Art of Minimalism
Education
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- The Best Book of Quotes: Famous Quotes for Life and Happiness
- Making connections
- Surveying the (un)known prospect
- Memorable Images
- Impact: how cultural factors vary its definition
- Imagine that!
- A Winter’s Tale – from PhD to post-doc
- Heaven Sent/Hell Bent – new managers, existing staff and the issues in higher education
- Institutional Signature Pedagogy – Like Avocado on Toast?
- Things to consider before you go on the distance learning road
- And the Next Step?
- The beautiful game, by the greatest artists in Europe presented by the past masters
- Plickers! Engage your students with learning technology
- Surviving the viva
- Journal clubs: an interesting tradition
- How to Create an Academic Website for Free!
- Preparing A Cultural Exposition
- Scientific Outreach: So Many Reasons to Bother
- Academic Bureaucracy Is Discouraging
- Life after a PhD
- Lady Librarian becomes Revalidated Fellow
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- New Year’s Resolutions?
- It’s down to YOU – creating your own professional development!
- Reflective Journals and E-Portfolios
- What is a Learning Technologist?
- Teaching Artist?
- Pre Eventual System
- Pros and cons of working outside America
- Myths of American History
- Teaching American History with Visual Sources
- African History portal
- Teaching censorship: a useful resource
- The experience of non-whites in Europe
- Survey courses: what is the priority?
- History or American Studies?
- To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question?
- Best History Sites internet hub
- Teaching Lynching using the Visual Image
- Linking teaching and research – a Nexus
- Building a Learning and Teaching Strategy
- American History Teaching Resource
- Pridefully Oblivious
Employer Branding
- Are you monitoring your online employer brand?
- CIPD Web 2.0 Seminar with jobs.ac.uk
- Use your email signature block to drive applicants to your recruitment site
- UK online recruitment advertising spend increases – again
- University of Nottingham HR win award for e-recruitment
- Collecting email addresses from your vacancy pages
- What job seekers look for in job adverts
- Attracting passive candidates – Part one – What are they?
Employment Tips
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
Employment Trends
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- Transdisciplinary Facilitators
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Building A Career-Search Network As A New Graduate
- Reach for the stars (but don’t be dazzled by the brightest)
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- 3 reasons why now is a great time to look for a job!
- Likability – is it the X Factor at interview?
- 4% drop in graduate vacancies!
Enterprise
- Supporting The Role Of Academics As An Administrator
- Freshers Week
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship for Year 6 Students – Part I
Environmental Science
Events
- jobs.ac.uk’s Jane Kingman wins Unsung Hero award
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase, CIPD
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase – Search Higher
- Our Google Hangout on Research Impact and Public Engagement attracts over 2000 PhD and research students
Featured On Home
- How to create a stand-out academic CV
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- Reflections on a happy ending: 1. A question of perspective (Brief Encounter, 1945, dir. David Lean)
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- How to stay motivated during your job search
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Getting over post-interview blues
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
- Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- How my PhD years ‘jet packed’ my personal development in unexpected ways
- Considering an Academic Career in China Q&A Summary
- How Academics are Helping Entrepreneurs Help Academics
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- A blueprint for a more joined-up approach to research communication
- Relocation, relocation, relocation: The art of moving
- Saying No: Why it’s important to be brave
- Task management and the art of the to do list
- 5 tips for returning to work after a career break
- Pregnancy during your PhD
Fiction Writing
- Everything I did wrong…
- A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- On Prose Style: Simplicity Versus Sesquipedalianism
- A researcher works at a library
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Two New MAs in Town: Creative Writing at Cambridge, Self-publishing at University of Central Lancashire
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer (Part 2)
- Gunpowder, Reason and Plot: Malcolm Bradbury and the Creative Writing Revolution
- Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Ding Dong The Booker Prize is Dead
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- Can Creative Writing be Taught?
- Creative Writing in the Academy
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Hero Worship
Funding
- Funding Applications and Good News
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- New Year, PhD?
- The Power of Graphs
- Grant Applications
- Funding For Travel
- Vitae
- EPSRC Funding Applications
Geography
Global Academic
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- How to write in a language that is not your own
- Collaborating on an international scale: our tips
- Interdisciplinary and international research: a local case
- In focus: creating collaborative partnerships for international development
Graduate Market
- The Value of Professional Services
- Keeping a record of achievements: why it’s important to remember the things you forgot
- Supporting The Role Of Academics As An Administrator
- Do I need a degree to work in Higher Education?
- Dealing with Change at Work
- What NOT to say in an interview
- How can a temp job boost your career prospects?
- The other parts of the interview – Part III
- What Can Universities Do to Help Students Out of the Recession?
Guest Blog
- Encouraging shy ESL students out of their shells
- Using Technology To Shape Language Teaching
- Teaching English in England
- How to be a good English teacher: Advice from a Japanese learner of English
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- Teaching English to Absolute Beginners
HE News
- HE Recruitment 2017 Highlights
- jobs.ac.uk hosted recruitment event
- jobs.ac.uk launch new e-Recruitment system for universities
- jobs.ac.uk announce new ‘UK Immigration & International Recruitment’ workshop
- UKBA announces important changes to Resident Labour Market Test
- The Challenge for Higher Education – John Cridland’s thoughts on the future of Higher Education
- UPA Conference 2009: Enhancing the value of HR in HE
- Legislation on workplace disputes changing
- "Mail Goggles" and getting adverts right first time…
- How will the rising cost of fuel affect recruitment?
- Recruitment advertising workshops – Manchester and Birmingham
- Digital Masterclass on PR and legal issues of Web 2.0 at MMU
- UK online recruitment advertising spend increases – again
- University of Nottingham HR win award for e-recruitment
Health & Medical
- Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
Health & Wellbeing
- Getting over post-interview blues
- Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- Mental Health in Academia: Lets talk about it.
- On small goodnesses
- Fear and curiosity during your doctorate: weeks 6 & 7 of How to Survive your PhD.
- Academic writing, Frustration and Loneliness: weeks 4 and 5 of How to survive your PhD
Higher Education
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Getting over post-interview blues
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- A Welcoming and Efficient Student Helpdesk
- The Value of Professional Services
- Keeping a record of achievements: why it’s important to remember the things you forgot
- Rewriting the story of failure
- These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
- The PhD Application Process
- Starting a Writing Group
- Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it
- A Quick Hello & What’s To Come.
- Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Finishing your PhD
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- Staying motivated throughout your PhD
- Keeping calm and carrying on!
- How to survive your PhD
- The good and the bad of a PhD
- 10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
- How far Is Too Far In An Interview?
- The hectic life of a PhD student
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Giving back during your PhD
- Positive PhD thinking!
- PhD time management!
- My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
- Time Management I: The Pomodoro Technique
- Going Up! The Elevator Pitch
- Integrating Research and Teaching
- Do I need a degree to work in Higher Education?
- New Year, PhD?
- Love your PhD
- What Can Universities Do to Help Students Out of the Recession?
- Publishing before the PhD
- Vitae
- Higher Education Teaching Certification
Higher Education
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Higher Education and Twitter: Five things we have learned from Tweeting
- 5 Ways A PhD Can Be Useful In A University Support Role
- Working with challenging or difficult students
- Writing effective minutes
- Writing effective agendas
- Supporting research students as an administrator
- Supporting The Role Of Academics As An Administrator
- Keeping Your Energy Levels High During Busy Work Periods
- Support Staff Role In HE
- Progression in HE for Support Staff
- Qualities in support staff
- Higher Education Admin Support
- Dealing with Change at Work
- What NOT to say in an interview
- How can a temp job boost your career prospects?
- The other parts of the interview – Part III
- Freshers Week
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part II
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part I
History
- Reflections on a happy ending: 1. A question of perspective (Brief Encounter, 1945, dir. David Lean)
- Histories of cinema: Japanese acrobats, Fred dancing upside down and Joseph flying across the room. The camera never lies?
- Histories of cinema: When Georges Mélies discovered special effects
- History? Not without language!
- Starting blogging
- Histories of cinema: When censorship backfires. Watching Gilda in dictatorship Spain
- Histories of cinema: Spoilers alert! The first audiences of Psycho (1960)
- Histories of cinema: Yakima Canutt, the chariot race and the blind spot
- Using museum collections for academic research
- Lessons in herstory: Mary Moffat, explorer of the Kalahari
- The lady archer: from invalidism to the New Woman
- At the archives: what’s that scrawl? Tips on reading historical documents
- Teaching at Masters Level
- New Year, New Challenges?
- End of term at last!
- American History Reading Group
- American history scholarship: the European connection
- Pros and cons of working outside America
- Myths of American History
- Teaching American History with Visual Sources
- African History portal
- Large Academic Conferences: should I go?
- Teaching censorship: a useful resource
- The experience of non-whites in Europe
- New Economic History?
- Survey courses: what is the priority?
- Let the conferencing begin!
- History or American Studies?
- Best History Sites internet hub
- Teaching Lynching using the Visual Image
- Interview tips webinar
- Colonial America: the forgotten Americanists?
- American History Teaching Resource
History Of Music
How To Recruit The Best Staff
- HE Recruitment 2017 Highlights
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase, CIPD
- jobs.ac.uk launches new recruiter site and CV database
- Rise in online recruitment
- How can you have the perfect recruitment website?
- How will the rising cost of fuel affect recruitment?
- Job application forms take too long to complete
- Personality tests for job applicants are a waste of time
- Recruitment advertising workshops – Manchester and Birmingham
- A – A to Z of recruitment and HR
- University of Nottingham HR win award for e-recruitment
- Collecting email addresses from your vacancy pages
- What job seekers look for in job adverts
- How candidates can spoil your Applicant Tracking System
- Attracting passive candidates – Part one – What are they?
HR News
- jobs.ac.uk hosted recruitment event
- QR Codes for recruitment
- UKBA announces important changes to Resident Labour Market Test
- It’s easy being green: Using your green agenda for employee engagement
- The Challenge for Higher Education – John Cridland’s thoughts on the future of Higher Education
- UPA Conference 2009: Enhancing the value of HR in HE
Improve Your Recruitment Websites
- HE Recruitment 2017 Highlights
- Top 10 recruiter locations across various disciplines
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase, CIPD
- Recruitment Methods and Effectiveness – Introduction
- How can you have the perfect recruitment website?
- CIPD Web 2.0 Seminar with jobs.ac.uk
- "Mail Goggles" and getting adverts right first time…
- Finding a job online is mind-numbing
- Job application forms take too long to complete
- Use your email signature block to drive applicants to your recruitment site
Infographics
International Recruitment
- jobs.ac.uk announce new ‘UK Immigration & International Recruitment’ workshop
- It’s easy being green: Using your green agenda for employee engagement
- Migrant workers – have you seen the TV adverts?
- What you can learn from Australians searching for jobs
- How candidates can spoil your Applicant Tracking System
Interview Tips
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Getting over post-interview blues
- 5 Interview Question Suggestions for Faculty-Research Positions
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- Presenting yourself, not just your presentation…
- Most of what you say doesn’t count….
- Likability – is it the X Factor at interview?
- What are your weaknesses?
- Odd interview questions and how to cope with them!
- 4 Sure fire signs that you’ve done well in an interview!
- What to wear to interviews?
- Can evolutionary psychology help us at interview?
Interviews
- Kickstarting your own ELT publication
- Taking a language learning card game to market: An interview with Sean Anderson
- 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An Interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 1)
- 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 2)
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 2)
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 1)
- Create a Top TEFL CV
- Interview: Teaching Young Learners of English in Sendai (Part 1)
- English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 2)
- English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 1)
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- Interview with Hokkaido Insider (Part 2)
- Teaching in Japan: Interview with Hokkaido Insider (Part 1)
- Interview with a Teacher – Kevin Burns (Part 1)
- TEFL Interview: Let’s Japan on… Japan
- TEFL Interview: Let’s Japan on Eikaiwa
- TEFL Job Interview Questions
- EFL Teacher Interview
- Interview With a TEFLer: Alex Case (Part I)
- TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 2
- Interview With a TEFLer
Interviews
- Keeping a record of achievements: why it’s important to remember the things you forgot
- How far Is Too Far In An Interview?
- What NOT to say in an interview
- The other parts of the interview – Part III
Job Hunting
- Keeping a record of achievements: why it’s important to remember the things you forgot
- Supporting The Role Of Academics As An Administrator
- How far Is Too Far In An Interview?
- Surviving a Restructure
- Do I need a degree to work in Higher Education?
- What NOT to say in an interview
- How can a temp job boost your career prospects?
- The other parts of the interview – Part III
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part II
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part I
Job Search
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- How to stay motivated during your job search
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Keeping Track of Applications and Related Materials
- Reach for the stars (but don’t be dazzled by the brightest)
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- Graduating soon? LinkedIn should be your new best friend
- 5 ways to avoid age discrimination
- Commuting my way to course leader
- 3 reasons why now is a great time to look for a job!
- Think before mentioning an employer on Twitter
- Blog your way to career success
- Returning to the job market
- LinkedIn: The right way to connect
- My job search is bad enough – Get off my back!
- What do you want your obituary to say about you?
- Recruiters: Use them, but don’t abuse them!
- Feeling the Sunday night blues
- 4% drop in graduate vacancies!
- The shotgun approach
- My rejection letters are piling up, what should I do?
- Have you got cover letters covered?
- How to make a CV stand out?
Jobs.ac.uk 20th Anniversary
- 10 facts you didn’t know about jobs.ac.uk
- Try our fun football quiz
- jobs.ac.uk grows rapidly
- jobs.ac.uk – How it all began
- Interview with Andrew Gordon, previous director of jobs.ac.uk
- Quiz
Jobs.ac.uk News
- jobs.ac.uk’s Jane Kingman wins Unsung Hero award
- Top 10 recruiter locations across various disciplines
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase, CIPD
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase – Search Higher
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase – Enhance Media
- HE Recruitment 2017 unveils session details
- HE Recruitment 2017 announce their keynote speakers
- Recruitment Methods and Effectiveness – Introduction
- Introducing our new PhD portal
- Free report: recruitment effectiveness for universities 2013
- jobs.ac.uk attracts nearly 1.4 million unique browsers in latest ABC audit – up 91% from 2012
- Infographic: What do jobseekers really think?
- Recruitment networking event, Wednesday 17th July 2013
- [Free report] jobs.ac.uk recruitment trends survey results
- New arrivals to the jobs.ac.uk team
- jobs.ac.uk launches free mobile jobs app for iPhone and Android
- jobs.ac.uk launches new recruiter site and CV database
- Online Recruitment 2012: The Year Ahead
- ‘Essentials of Effective Online Recruitment’ seminar
- jobs.ac.uk announce new ‘UK Immigration & International Recruitment’ workshop
- UKBA announces important changes to Resident Labour Market Test
- Snow stops play, almost
- jobs.ac.uk snow how it’s done
- Finding a job online is mind-numbing
- The death of newspapers?
- Recruitment advertising workshops – Manchester and Birmingham
- What you can learn from Australians searching for jobs
- What job seekers look for in job adverts
Jobseeking
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- What’s your plan?
- The Devil in the Dark
- Ballad of Fallen Angels
- For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky*
- Did I mention it also travels in time?
- The Unbearable Lightness of Unemployment
- Things a Viking Taught Me
- Jenny Walklate, Job Snob for Hire
- The Jaws that Bite: Or, On Rejection.
- Teaching English at Japanese Universities
- Create a Top TEFL CV
- Turning your TEFL gap year into a TEFL career
- Freelance TEFL opportunities; a refreshing alternative to teaching classes of kids
- Academic Conferences: Small versus Big
- End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!
- The value of networking
- Private tutoring opportunities
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- Improving the treatment of PhD students
- Promotion: achieving it in today’s climate
- Is academia still a viable career?
- Careers Resolutions: plans for 2011
- Last week of term: time to take stock!
- Academic career path: where are you going?
- Taking a sideways move to another university
- Universities: the future?
- Interviews: advice from the other side of the desk!
- The Managed University
- Teaching English at Schools in Japan
- ESL English Teacher Resume Tips
- Jobs outside university
- TEFL Cover Letter and Template
- TEFL Transferable Skills
- What interview panels are looking for
- Advice on starting a new academic job
- Need a job? It’s not too late!
- How to get a job: good advice!
- Networking online: how to start?
- TEFL Job Interview Questions
- Portfolio careers: pros and cons
- Lack of job security: PhD students reject academia
- Jobseeking tips for those who already have a job
- Do you have any hobbies? What to include on application forms!
- TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 2
- TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 1
- TEFL Job Interviews
- Does Age Matter in TEFL?
- Academic buzzword no. 1 : skills!
- It’s official, I’m no longer a probationer!
- Interview advice…an alternative
- Rate my professors controversy!
- 8 Steps to TEFL Glory!
- TEFL Employers: Bigger vs. Smaller
- Real jobseekers’ problems!
- Would you lie in a job interview?
- Private Lessons or School Teaching?
- Career building: set up your own networks
- Job market challenges no. 389: the academic couple!
- Jobseekers…I can’t be that bad surely?!
- Replies, rejection letters – simply common courtesy?
- Informal contact? Always use it!
- Is your CV a work of fiction?!
- Lecturing
- Career building while at the coal-face
- That mythical quiet period….?
- Commuting: how far is too far?
Jobseeking
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Getting over post-interview blues
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- New podcasts on the blog – accounts of post-PhD transitions
- On being “overqualified” on the job market
- Informational interviews in the post-PhD job search
- Career resources for the post-PhD job hunt
- Falling at the Last Hurdle (Dealing with Post-Interview Rejection)
- Lifelong academic?
- Jobseeker, know thyself
- Mentoring and post-PhD transitions
- Post-PhD job hunt and recruitment agencies
- Coaching to support post-PhD journeys
- On serial dating and job interviewing
- From A to B via a rather scenic route
- These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
- 5 things to do while job searching
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
Jobseeking
Just Higher-Ed
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
- Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- How can we help academic colleagues to stay healthy? Experience & ideas
- How I found out, how NOT to be an academic
- Building a bigger and better picture of academic recruitment and career pathways
- Glass Ceilings and Revolving Doors: a Crisis for European Doctoral Candidates
- What’s your plan?
- Being a supervisor – 3 things I’ve learnt
- Staying in academia: 3 things I find helpful at challenging times
- Securing That Academic Job
- University rankings and research collaboration: interview with Phil Baty
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Boogie-Woogie Feng Shui
- Voices of Authority
- Life after a PhD
- Spider in the Web
- Movements of Fire and Shadow
- Plato’s Stepchildren
- The Menagerie, Part II
- The Menagerie, Part I
- Court Martial: Dealing with Negativity
- The Deadly Years; or, I’ll live – and I’ll enjoy it!
- Patterns of Force: Doing things you didn’t expect, beyond the boundaries you set yourself
- We Who Are About To….
- Torment of Tantalus
- The Parliament of Dreams
- The Devil in the Dark
- The Wanderground
- Intersections in Real Time
- Ballad of Fallen Angels
- Balance of Terror*
- Make It So
- A Taste of Armageddon*
- Ties of Blood and Water
- It’s Only a Paper Moon
- The Gamesters of Triskelion
- Turnabout Intruder
- The Icarus Factor
- Encounter at Farpoint: An Interview with an Old Friend
- For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky*
- Did I mention it also travels in time?
- The Unbearable Lightness of Unemployment
- Things a Viking Taught Me
- Jenny Walklate, Job Snob for Hire
- The Jaws that Bite: Or, On Rejection.
- Teaching English at Japanese Universities
- Create a Top TEFL CV
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Turning your TEFL gap year into a TEFL career
- Freelance TEFL opportunities; a refreshing alternative to teaching classes of kids
- Integrating Research and Teaching
- Academic Conferences: Small versus Big
- End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!
- Exams: the joy of invigilation and marking!
- The value of networking
- Private tutoring opportunities
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- Research and work/life balance
- Higher Education on a global scale
- Funding challenges in the arts
- How to end your career!
- Becoming a better teacher: plagiarism
- Building a portfolio academic career
- Balancing research and teaching
- A good leader: could it be you?
- Becoming a lecturer: is it worth it?!
- Improving the treatment of PhD students
- Promotion: achieving it in today’s climate
- Is academia still a viable career?
- Careers Resolutions: plans for 2011
- Last week of term: time to take stock!
- Finding Inspiration
- Academic career path: where are you going?
- Marking and improving your time management
- Getting your CV out there!
- Reading week: another name for half-term?
- Taking a sideways move to another university
- Universities: the future?
- Advantages and disadvantages of ‘portfolio careers’
- Welcoming new students, and making sure we keep them
- Time management: is missing a deadline ever OK?
- Induction Week: and we’re off!
- Countdown to the start of term!
- Time management: the art of saying ‘no’!
- Interviews: advice from the other side of the desk!
- Humanities research: pros and cons of online!
- The Managed University
- Importance of student exchanges
- Presentation skills
- Should we publish less or more?
- Conferences: how to choose between them
- No, I’m not on holiday for the next 2 months!
- Teaching as a postgraduate
- Conference papers and presenting a good one
- Students do less work shock!
- The importance of being organised!
- Merit pay: a good idea?
- Teaching English at Schools in Japan
- Research: the joy and the pain!
- Marking: the worst part of the job?
- ESL English Teacher Resume Tips
- Jobs outside university
- Commuting: make the most of your time
- Admissions tutor job: what does it involve?
- Private Higher Education
- The virtues of planning ahead!
- TEFL Cover Letter and Template
- Teaching and research: how to juggle both!
- Research during term time: is it possible?
- TEFL Transferable Skills
- What interview panels are looking for
- What is a seminar?
- Advice on starting a new academic job
- Need a job? It’s not too late!
- Clearing week
- How to get a job: good advice!
- Networking online: how to start?
- TEFL Job Interview Questions
- Portfolio careers: pros and cons
- Marking season is upon us!
- Invigiliation duties
- Desk-bound research: a good thing or not?
- Lack of job security: PhD students reject academia
- Writing a book while teaching: is it possible?
- The Power of Graphs
- Jobseeking tips for those who already have a job
- Do you have any hobbies? What to include on application forms!
- Commuting…a reassessment.
- Videolectures.net
- TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 2
- TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 1
- TEFL Job Interviews
- Does Age Matter in TEFL?
- Academic buzzword no. 1 : skills!
- It’s official, I’m no longer a probationer!
- A Day in the Life…
- Interview advice…an alternative
- Seminars and tutorials: getting students talking!
- Research leave: a difficult decision
- The start of my second year!
- Impact of government policies: some thoughts!
- The minefield of research funding
- The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part II
- The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part I
- Rate my professors controversy!
- 8 Steps to TEFL Glory!
- Contributing to ‘clearing’
- Higher Education Teaching Certification
- Putting Things into Perspective
- Greetings from the library!
- Technology in the Classroom: part 2
- TEFL Employers: Bigger vs. Smaller
- The job hunting roller coaster
- Privatisation in HE: interesting developments
- It’s that time again: graduation!
- Real jobseekers’ problems!
- End of year report
- Would you lie in a job interview?
- Third Stream: what does it mean for you?
- Private Lessons or School Teaching?
- Career building: set up your own networks
- Marking season well under-way!
- Job market challenges no. 389: the academic couple!
- Jobseekers…I can’t be that bad surely?!
- Replies, rejection letters – simply common courtesy?
- Butcher, baker, candlestick maker?
- Informal contact? Always use it!
- Is your CV a work of fiction?!
- Lecturing
- Career building while at the coal-face
- That mythical quiet period….?
- Commuting: how far is too far?
Language And Literature
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- The Best Book of Quotes: Famous Quotes for Life and Happiness
- No Good Advice
- Mary Bennet’s Hollywood ending: a feminist ending?
- The Best Teacher I Know: David Attenborough
- A Good Spanish Book
- Training in equality and diversity: the pilot and the nurse
- Teamwork: Helping Your Department Colleagues Succeed
- Paris belonged to me: an homage to Jacques Rivette
- Which English To Teach?
- Academic ‘Resolutions’
- Ch-ch-ch-changes
- Preparing A Cultural Exposition
- Academic Bureaucracy Is Discouraging
- My Research Strategies
- Spanish Studies
- Arts and/ or Sciences: how to solve the riddle of the sphinx
- Everything I did wrong…
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Quick Tips For Teachers
- At the archives: what’s that scrawl? Tips on reading historical documents
- Improving Your Spanish Program: Literature
- The God Of Languages: The Specialized Native Teacher
- Technology Tips For Teachers: Projectors And Mobiles In The Class
- A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
- Improving Your Spanish Language Program: Equatorial Guinea
- The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
- Turning forty: the age of reason?
- The Next Big Thing
- Fishing in a smaller pond: looking for jobs online
- Money Money Money
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- The Problem of ‘Fitting In’
- On Prose Style: Simplicity Versus Sesquipedalianism
- To intervene or not to intervene: that is the question
- What’s videography got to do with it? Classicist and guest vlogger Emma Cole shares her advice on academic videos
- International Women’s Day: The importance of girls’ education
- Getting your Writing Back
- Fahrenheit 451: The day they destroyed the library
- If you build it, they will come
- A researcher works at a library
- Reviewing
- New Year, new experiences? Teaching in the wake of Charlie Hebdo
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Being Online
- Let us welcome the New Year
- A lecture is a performance: do not forget your audience
- Moving On
- Giving your First Conference Paper
- Not for school, but for life
- Networking for People Who Hate Networking
- Writing Pact: Are you in?
- Teaching Difficulty
- In Praise of Colleagues
- Back to School
- Can you ever stop learning? : The clay jug
- Using film in the language class
- Why bother teaching?
- Do not panic. It is just grammar
- What happens when everything goes wrong with your teaching?
- Two New MAs in Town: Creative Writing at Cambridge, Self-publishing at University of Central Lancashire
- Latin lingua viva est: why the Classics are necessary
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer (Part 2)
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer
- Gunpowder, Reason and Plot: Malcolm Bradbury and the Creative Writing Revolution
- Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Ding Dong The Booker Prize is Dead
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- Can Creative Writing be Taught?
- Creative Writing in the Academy
- The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
- Are You A Digital Researcher?
- Creative Writing: blogging about it
- NUS survey on financial support
- Rejection and Re-motivation
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- Voices in Fiction part 2
- After the Riots
- Research and Teaching: the Stretch
- Running your own live literature night – part two
- Running your own live literature night – part one
- Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
- Hero Worship
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
- World building with Mind Mapping
- Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
- The PhD Application Handbook
- Disposable PhD?
- Pridefully Oblivious
Languages
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- A Good Spanish Book
- Paris belonged to me: an homage to Jacques Rivette
- Which English To Teach?
- Preparing A Cultural Exposition
- Academic Bureaucracy Is Discouraging
- My Research Strategies
- Spanish Studies
- Everything I did wrong…
- Improving Your Spanish Program: Literature
- The God Of Languages: The Specialized Native Teacher
- Improving Your Spanish Language Program: Equatorial Guinea
- The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
- Turning forty: the age of reason?
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- A lecture is a performance: do not forget your audience
- Using film in the language class
- Do not panic. It is just grammar
- What happens when everything goes wrong with your teaching?
- Latin lingua viva est: why the Classics are necessary
- Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- After the Riots
- Research and Teaching: the Stretch
- Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
- Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
- Pridefully Oblivious
Learning Technology
- Plickers! Engage your students with learning technology
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- It’s down to YOU – creating your own professional development!
- What is a Learning Technologist?
- Linking teaching and research – a Nexus
- Building a Learning and Teaching Strategy
Lesson Plans
- A TEFL box of tricks
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- How To Teach Unplugged – The Naked English Teacher
- How to Teach Fluency in English – Part 2
- How to save a bad lesson
- English as a Second Language and EFL Lesson Plans
- How to Teach Vocabulary
- Teaching Resources: Top Websites for TEFL
- Learn from Hollywood: Using DVDs in TEFL
- TEFL: The Importance of Writing
- Teaching Grammar
- Conversation Classes
- TEFL: Needs Analysis
- TEFL Country Profile: Spain
- TEFL Lessons: Games (Part 2)
- TEFL Lessons: Games
Lessons
- Alternative Realities for PhD Graduates
- Videolectures.net
- The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part II
- The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part I
- Putting Things into Perspective
Literature
- The Best Book of Quotes: Famous Quotes for Life and Happiness
- Mary Bennet’s Hollywood ending: a feminist ending?
- The Best Teacher I Know: David Attenborough
- Academic ‘Resolutions’
- Ch-ch-ch-changes
- Preparing A Cultural Exposition
- Spanish Studies
- Arts and/ or Sciences: how to solve the riddle of the sphinx
- Everything I did wrong…
- Improving Your Spanish Program: Literature
- A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
- The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
- Turning forty: the age of reason?
- The Next Big Thing
- Money Money Money
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- The Problem of ‘Fitting In’
- On Prose Style: Simplicity Versus Sesquipedalianism
- Getting your Writing Back
- Fahrenheit 451: The day they destroyed the library
- If you build it, they will come
- A researcher works at a library
- Reviewing
- New Year, new experiences? Teaching in the wake of Charlie Hebdo
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Being Online
- Let us welcome the New Year
- Moving On
- Giving your First Conference Paper
- Networking for People Who Hate Networking
- Writing Pact: Are you in?
- Teaching Difficulty
- In Praise of Colleagues
- Back to School
- Why bother teaching?
- Two New MAs in Town: Creative Writing at Cambridge, Self-publishing at University of Central Lancashire
- Latin lingua viva est: why the Classics are necessary
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer (Part 2)
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer
- Gunpowder, Reason and Plot: Malcolm Bradbury and the Creative Writing Revolution
- Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Ding Dong The Booker Prize is Dead
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- Can Creative Writing be Taught?
- Creative Writing in the Academy
- The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
- Creative Writing: blogging about it
- Rejection and Re-motivation
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- Voices in Fiction part 2
- After the Riots
- Running your own live literature night – part two
- Running your own live literature night – part one
- Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
- Hero Worship
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
- World building with Mind Mapping
- Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
Living Abroad
- 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An Interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 1)
- Teaching English at Japanese Universities
- Being a female English teacher in Japan
- Teaching English off the beaten track – an EFL teacher in Belarus
- Using students’ L1 in the English language classroom
- Interview: Teaching Young Learners of English in Sendai (Part 1)
- Teaching English in Korea; a 5 minute interview
- Turning your TEFL gap year into a TEFL career
- English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 2)
- English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 1)
- The role of native-speaker teachers in English language education
- Teaching English in Japan in 2011
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
Mathematics
- Mathematics and Art
- The Power of Graphs
- Good Mathematics
- Blum’s Advice (part 2)
- Blum’s Advice
- Algorithmic Decision Theory
- Modeling Systems
- Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes
- How to Write Mathematics
- Letters to a Young Mathematician
Mental Health
- Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- How photography helped me during my PhD
Mobile
Music
- And the Next Step?
- Claimed from Stationers’ Hall
- Grant-Writing – the Realities of Postdoc Research!
- Being a Music Librarian: Never a Typical Day
- 40% Researcher? Yes, Indeed!
- Knitting, Lunacy Laws and the hunt for Patient Publications: Doing a PhD in the Medical Humanities
- October 2015 – only 7 months away!
- New Year’s Resolutions?
- Suddenly, there’s a lot to do!
- Reflective Journals and E-Portfolios
- The E. T. Bryant Memorial Prize (IAML UK and Ireland)
- Reflective Writing about Libraries Fostering Creativity
- Going Beyond the Comfort Zone
- The Devil in the Detail – What’s in a Name?
- Bagpipes in the LIBRARY?
- Does having a PhD change anything?
- In two minds …
- Minstrels, metaphors and social media
- To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question?
Native Americans
Networking
- Starting a Writing Group
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Life after a PhD
- Academics do not just teach
- Research Communities
News
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- Standing at the career crossroads
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Warning: Shift work may be ageing!
- Results day … and what the hell is clearing?
- CVs: Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
- Graduating soon? LinkedIn should be your new best friend
- How not to tell someone ‘no’ on LinkedIn
- Nick Clegg urges young people to ignore tuition fee myths
Non-Academic Jobs
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Post-PhD transitions – interview with Dr Ruth Price, Senior Consultant
- New podcasts on the blog – accounts of post-PhD transitions
- Confidence in personal and professional life, PhD edition
- Talking about unemployed PhDs
- The Value of Professional Services
- On being “overqualified” on the job market
- Ideal jobs and the post-PhD hunt
- Keeping a record of achievements: why it’s important to remember the things you forgot
- Confidence and post-PhD transitions
- Dispatches from 9 to 5 or post-PhD myth busting
- Informational interviews in the post-PhD job search
- Career resources for the post-PhD job hunt
- Lifelong academic?
- Rewriting the story of failure
- Jobseeker, know thyself
- Post-PhD job hunt and recruitment agencies
- Coaching to support post-PhD journeys
- Ex-academic or now me?
- From A to B via a rather scenic route
- These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
- Alternative Realities for PhD Graduates
- Communicating science
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- Quasi-academic jobs
- Statistics in demand
- Credit Crunch
- Investment Banking for PhDs – Part II
- Investment Banking for PhDs – Part I
Non-academics
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- The Value of Professional Services
- Keeping a record of achievements: why it’s important to remember the things you forgot
- Writing well at work: what I have learned from being a writer
- Higher Education and Twitter: Five things we have learned from Tweeting
- Coping with uncertainty at work
- 5 Ways A PhD Can Be Useful In A University Support Role
- Working with challenging or difficult students
- Using Reflective Writing in your Work
- Writing effective minutes
- Supporting research students as an administrator
- Supporting The Role Of Academics As An Administrator
- Keeping Your Energy Levels High During Busy Work Periods
- Support Staff Role In HE
- How far Is Too Far In An Interview?
- Progression in HE for Support Staff
- Qualities in support staff
- Higher Education Admin Support
- Do I need a degree to work in Higher Education?
- Dealing with Change at Work
- What NOT to say in an interview
- How can a temp job boost your career prospects?
- The other parts of the interview – Part III
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part II
Non-fiction Writing
- The Best Book of Quotes: Famous Quotes for Life and Happiness
- Everything I did wrong…
- A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- On Prose Style: Simplicity Versus Sesquipedalianism
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Two New MAs in Town: Creative Writing at Cambridge, Self-publishing at University of Central Lancashire
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer (Part 2)
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Can Creative Writing be Taught?
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
- Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
Online Community
- Reasons to Blog as a PhD Student
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- A new digital library
- Research Communities
Online Recruitment
- HE Recruitment 2017 Highlights
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase, CIPD
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase – Search Higher
- Recruitment Methods and Effectiveness – Introduction
- How to write killer job titles for jobs boards
- 5 steps to successful recruitment planning
- How to write a recruitment blog for your careers website
- Augmented reality for university recruitment?
- [Free report] jobs.ac.uk recruitment trends survey results
- Using infographics for recruitment
- jobs.ac.uk attend ‘Online Recruitment: Year Ahead’ conference
- jobs.ac.uk launches new recruiter site and CV database
- QR Codes for recruitment
- Google+: What is it & can it be used for recruitment?
- Rise in online recruitment
- How can you have the perfect recruitment website?
- Finding a job online is mind-numbing
- Job application forms take too long to complete
- The death of newspapers?
- Use your email signature block to drive applicants to your recruitment site
- Digital Masterclass on PR and legal issues of Web 2.0 at MMU
- UK online recruitment advertising spend increases – again
- University of Nottingham HR win award for e-recruitment
- Collecting email addresses from your vacancy pages
- How candidates can spoil your Applicant Tracking System
- Attracting passive candidates – Part one – What are they?
Organisation
- Saying No (Nicely)
- The End of Month 1: How to Combat PhD Fear
- The planning fallacy: Underestimating your task completion times
- PhD time management!
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- The Final Year Panic
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- Funding Travel During Your PhD
- Diving In
- Backing Up Work
PhD
- How to stay motivated during your job search
- Managing The Transition From Master’s to PhD – Top Ten Tips
- #jobsQ Live Video Hangout: Postgraduate Options – Is a PhD for me?
- PhD Vlog: Doing a PhD in Denmark
- Should I Do A PhD?
- A Guide to Doing a PhD in Germany
- 10 Career Paths for PhDs
- How my PhD years ‘jet packed’ my personal development in unexpected ways
- Starting a PhD: 10 questions you daren’t ask, answered…
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- Top Tips for the First Year of a PhD
- Surviving PhD Progression
- An Update: Publications and Presentations
- Lessons Learnt from my PhD (So Far)…
- Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Choosing a supervisor
- Funding Applications and Good News
- 9-Month Viva and Always, Always Expect the Unexpected
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Challenges Outside of PhD Life
- 12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
- Securing That Academic Job
- Starting to Write the Thesis
- First Day Teaching Syndrome
- You Don’t Use The Library
- Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
- You Have Office Envy
- Publishing Costs HOW Much?!
- You Are A Fraud
- You Think You Work
- New Year’s Resolutions for PhD Success
- Christmas as a PhD Student
- My First Conference as a PhD Student
- Struggling to Put Pen to Paper
- Settling into PhD Life
- Thinking Outside of Your Own Field
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Preparing to Start your PhD Journey
- Saying No (Nicely)
- The Importance of a PhD Protocol
- Reasons to Blog as a PhD Student
- 12 Points to Good Academic Writing
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- Writing a Successful PhD Application
- The End of Month 1: How to Combat PhD Fear
- Life after a PhD
- The PhD Application Process
- Starting a Writing Group
- Where to Study for your PhD?
- Week 1 as a PhD Student
- The planning fallacy: Underestimating your task completion times
- Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it
- A Quick Hello & What’s To Come.
- Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Finishing your PhD
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- Presenting your PhD
- Alternative Realities for PhD Graduates
- Staying motivated throughout your PhD
- What are the benefits of being a PhD student?
- Keeping calm and carrying on!
- How to survive your PhD
- The good and the bad of a PhD
- 10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
- The hectic life of a PhD student
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Giving back during your PhD
- Positive PhD thinking!
- Communicating science
- PhD time management!
- My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The Value of PhD Assessments #2
- The value of PhD Assessments
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- Time Management I: The Pomodoro Technique
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- The Final Year Panic
- Going Up! The Elevator Pitch
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- The Overactive Imagination of a Doctoral Researcher
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- Integrating Research and Teaching
- If Only I’d Known! Three PhD Tips
- What Makes a PhD?
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- Life after a PhD
- Keeping up to date
- What does it mean to be a PhD student?
- Funding Travel During Your PhD
- Dealing with Monotony in your PhD
- Why Study for a PhD?
- Travel During Your PhD
- Diving In
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- PhD: Doctor of Procrastination
- New Year, PhD?
- Finding Inspiration
- Staying Motivated
- Surviving at conferences…
- Love your PhD
- A day in the life of a PhD student
- Starting out
- ‘Everything is a project’
- Want to blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- Some comments on vivas
- End of the road
- Micromanaging supervisors
- Habilitation
- Quasi-academic jobs
- Efficient literature overview
- The sum is greater than the parts
- Publishing before the PhD
- PhD examination
- Part time jobs during a PhD
- Drafting theses and papers
- Advantage of posters
- Postdoc Advice
- Wireless Presenter
- AAIM 2009
- PhD Comics
- ResearchChannel.org
- Researcher’s Bible: psychological hurdles
- Four golden rules for scientists
- Financial computing
- The Power of Graphs
- Blum’s Advice (part 2)
- Blum’s Advice
- AAMAS 2009
- Making the most of a PhD
- Eric Schmidt, Google and Technology Policy
- Consultancy Roles for PhD’s
- A new digital library
- Knowing Everything About Nothing!
- PhD Proposals
- Algorithmic Decision Theory
- Credit Crunch
- A Humanities Perspective
- PhD Dissertation
- Modeling Systems
- Timely Communication
- Funding For Travel
- Vitae
- Thesis Writing: Benefits of Latex
- Academic Writing
- Investment Banking for PhDs – Part II
- Investment Banking for PhDs – Part I
- Accept Me, Accept Me Not: Applying for PhDs
PhD Advice
- Managing The Transition From Master’s to PhD – Top Ten Tips
- #jobsQ Live Video Hangout: Postgraduate Options – Is a PhD for me?
- PhD Vlog: Doing a PhD in Denmark
- Should I Do A PhD?
- A Guide to Doing a PhD in Germany
- 10 Career Paths for PhDs
- How my PhD years ‘jet packed’ my personal development in unexpected ways
- How photography helped me during my PhD
- Starting a PhD: 10 questions you daren’t ask, answered…
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- The Academic Imposter
- Playing the research game
- Well into your PhD? 5 helpful career planning topics
- Mental Health in Academia: Lets talk about it.
- Keep on running: what inspires PhD students to become runners?
- My Alternative Academic (Alt-ac) Career – Guest blogger, Dr Rob Edwards
- Life after PhD: a satisfying career outside of academia?
- Are you procrastinating? Or opening yourself to inspiration…
- Working 5 to 9: how many hours are enough?
- A Winter’s Tale – from PhD to post-doc
- Post-PhD transitions – interview with Dr Ruth Price, Senior Consultant
- An Update (or, I’ve been away because…)
- What I learned when I took on too much: I am not a PhD superhero
- Finding Your People: Mentors, Collaborators, and Guardian Angels
- Why researchers might want a way out of precarity
- The importance of language skill certificate in CV (extra points!)
- Got (or getting) your PhD? Great! But, how likely are you to land an academic job?
- Everyone has their own career path: our blog series & the essence of post-phd careers
- I got a PhD: Now what? Discovering the post-phd career landscape
- Employer perspectives of PhD graduates
- Career pathways post-PhD – the impact of increased competition
- Tricks from an expert: how to identify your skills and boost your confidence
- Finding a postdoctoral position (for a non-UK/EU Citizen)
- A Post PhD Career Journey in 3 Parts. Part Three: Looking for Opportunity
- New podcasts on the blog – accounts of post-PhD transitions
- A PhD is a rosette, not a career path
- A Post PhD Career Journey in 3 Parts. Part Two: The Marginal (Career) Advantage
- A Post-PhD Career Journey in 3 Parts. Part One: Significant Moments
- How could I have prepared better for post-PhD life?
- Top Tips for the First Year of a PhD
- Guest post: From PhD to career librarian: a bold leap or a natural step?
- Confidence in personal and professional life, PhD edition
- Am I a PhD ECR? What is an Early Career Researcher?
- Surviving PhD Progression
- Talking about unemployed PhDs
- An Update: Publications and Presentations
- Quiet Rebellion
- On being “overqualified” on the job market
- Lessons Learnt from my PhD (So Far)…
- Ideal jobs and the post-PhD hunt
- Confession: I Didn’t Prepare For my Viva!
- Confidence and post-PhD transitions
- Preparing for Academic Job Interviews
- Dispatches from 9 to 5 or post-PhD myth busting
- Informational interviews in the post-PhD job search
- Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Choosing a supervisor
- PhD Qualification Vs. Personal Identity: Part One
- Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Getting references
- How do you find conferences to attend? Some useful sources
- Career resources for the post-PhD job hunt
- Funding Applications and Good News
- Falling at the Last Hurdle (Dealing with Post-Interview Rejection)
- Lifelong academic?
- 9-Month Viva and Always, Always Expect the Unexpected
- Rewriting the story of failure
- Surviving the viva
- Failing to be an academic
- Finding the human in your research idol
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Jobseeker, know thyself
- Mentoring and post-PhD transitions
- Challenges Outside of PhD Life
- 12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
- Securing That Academic Job
- Post-PhD job hunt and recruitment agencies
- Coaching to support post-PhD journeys
- Starting to Write the Thesis
- Is ‘ECR’ fit for purpose in the Humanities?
- Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
- You Have Office Envy
- Finding your humanities PhD project
- Publishing Costs HOW Much?!
- Trying to find my voice
- You Are A Fraud
- Knitting, Lunacy Laws and the hunt for Patient Publications: Doing a PhD in the Medical Humanities
- You Think You Work
- New Year’s Resolutions for PhD Success
- Christmas as a PhD Student
- MOOC module “How to Survive your PhD” : my reflections at the end
- My First Conference as a PhD Student
- Struggling to Put Pen to Paper
- Four weeks and a deadline: curiosity, confusion, boredom and love in #survivephd15
- Settling into PhD Life
- My 5 Lessons from the PhD
- Thinking Outside of Your Own Field
- Self-doubt, perfectionism and common insecurities during research work
- ‘Upgrading’ to a PhD
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Fear and curiosity during your doctorate: weeks 6 & 7 of How to Survive your PhD.
- Preparing to Start your PhD Journey
- Academic writing, Frustration and Loneliness: weeks 4 and 5 of How to survive your PhD
- Working Class academics in and outside the PhD
- “How to survive your PhD” weeks 2 & 3: growing in confidence
- Post-PhD comedown
- Taking part in a MOOC “How to Survive Your PhD” : Getting started.
- The Importance of a PhD Protocol
- Reasons to Blog as a PhD Student
- 5 Ways A PhD Can Be Useful In A University Support Role
- Unconventional PhD Career Paths
- 12 Points to Good Academic Writing
- 9-5 vs PhD Life
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- Publish or Perish Post-PhD?
- Writing a Successful PhD Application
- Our Google Hangout on Research Impact and Public Engagement attracts over 2000 PhD and research students
- The End of Month 1: How to Combat PhD Fear
- Life after a PhD
- The PhD Application Process
- Where to Study for your PhD?
- Week 1 as a PhD Student
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it
- Working on a Science Park
- Standing at the career crossroads
- You are more than the sum of your thesis
- Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Building A Career-Search Network As A New Graduate
- Finishing your PhD
- Introducing our new PhD portal
- Reaching the finish line
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- Making Networking Work for You
- Presenting your PhD
- Alternative Realities for PhD Graduates
- Staying motivated throughout your PhD
- What are the benefits of being a PhD student?
- Keeping calm and carrying on!
- How to survive your PhD
- The good and the bad of a PhD
- Commuting my way to course leader
- 10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
- The hectic life of a PhD student
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Giving back during your PhD
- Positive PhD thinking!
- PhD time management!
- My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The Value of PhD Assessments #2
- The value of PhD Assessments
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- Time Management I: The Pomodoro Technique
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- The Final Year Panic
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- The Overactive Imagination of a Doctoral Researcher
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- If Only I’d Known! Three PhD Tips
- Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
- What Makes a PhD?
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- Life after a PhD
- The PhD Application Handbook
- Keeping up to date
- Pregnancy during your PhD
- What does it mean to be a PhD student?
- Funding Travel During Your PhD
- Dealing with Monotony in your PhD
- Why Study for a PhD?
- Travel During Your PhD
- Diving In
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- PhD: Doctor of Procrastination
- New Year, PhD?
- Finding Inspiration
- Staying Motivated
- Surviving at conferences…
- Love your PhD
- A day in the life of a PhD student
- Research experience before PhD
- Some comments on vivas
- Countdown timers
- Micromanaging supervisors
- Keeping track of latest research
- Publishing before the PhD
- PhD examination
- Part time jobs during a PhD
- Drafting theses and papers
- Advantage of posters
- Postdoc advice 2
- Postdoc Advice
- PhD Comics
- Blum’s Advice (part 2)
- Blum’s Advice
- Making the most of a PhD
- Grant Applications
- A new digital library
- PhD Proposals
- PhD Dissertation
- Accept Me, Accept Me Not: Applying for PhDs
Physical Science
Post-PhD Life
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- How to stay motivated during your job search
- PhD Vlog: Doing a PhD in Denmark
- Should I Do A PhD?
- 10 Career Paths for PhDs
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Getting over post-interview blues
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- The Academic Imposter
- My Alternative Academic (Alt-ac) Career – Guest blogger, Dr Rob Edwards
- Life after PhD: a satisfying career outside of academia?
- Post-PhD transitions – interview with Dr Ruth Price, Senior Consultant
- An Update (or, I’ve been away because…)
- Your alternative academic identity: learning the rules?
- A Welcoming and Efficient Student Helpdesk
- Why researchers might want a way out of precarity
- Self-reflexivity as good academic practice
- The importance of language skill certificate in CV (extra points!)
- Got (or getting) your PhD? Great! But, how likely are you to land an academic job?
- Everyone has their own career path: our blog series & the essence of post-phd careers
- I got a PhD: Now what? Discovering the post-phd career landscape
- Dealing with hard times (paper rejection)
- Employer perspectives of PhD graduates
- Career pathways following doctoral research
- Career pathways post-PhD – the impact of increased competition
- Tricks from an expert: how to identify your skills and boost your confidence
- Finding a postdoctoral position (for a non-UK/EU Citizen)
- A Post PhD Career Journey in 3 Parts. Part Three: Looking for Opportunity
- New podcasts on the blog – accounts of post-PhD transitions
- A PhD is a rosette, not a career path
- A Post PhD Career Journey in 3 Parts. Part Two: The Marginal (Career) Advantage
- A Post-PhD Career Journey in 3 Parts. Part One: Significant Moments
- How could I have prepared better for post-PhD life?
- Guest post: From PhD to career librarian: a bold leap or a natural step?
- How do you make a portfolio career work for you?
- Confidence in personal and professional life, PhD edition
- Talking about unemployed PhDs
- The Value of Professional Services
- Quiet Rebellion
- On being “overqualified” on the job market
- Ideal jobs and the post-PhD hunt
- Keeping a record of achievements: why it’s important to remember the things you forgot
- Confession: I Didn’t Prepare For my Viva!
- Confidence and post-PhD transitions
- Preparing for Academic Job Interviews
- Dispatches from 9 to 5 or post-PhD myth busting
- Informational interviews in the post-PhD job search
- Career resources for the post-PhD job hunt
- Ode to parkrun
- Falling at the Last Hurdle (Dealing with Post-Interview Rejection)
- Job apps? Here’s some help.
- Lifelong academic?
- Rewriting the story of failure
- (Academic) Jobseeker, know thyself
- Failing to be an academic
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Jobseeker, know thyself
- Mentoring and post-PhD transitions
- 12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
- Securing That Academic Job
- Post-PhD job hunt and recruitment agencies
- Welcome to Job Season!
- Coaching to support post-PhD journeys
- Is ‘ECR’ fit for purpose in the Humanities?
- First Day Teaching Syndrome
- You Don’t Use The Library
- You Have Office Envy
- Ex-academic or now me?
- On serial dating and job interviewing
- Trying to find my voice
- You Are A Fraud
- From A to B via a rather scenic route
- You Think You Work
- What to do with all that passion?
- Resilience, not resolutions
- My First Conference as a PhD Student
- My 5 Lessons from the PhD
- These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
- 5 things to do while job searching
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Finally Graduating!
- Working Class academics in and outside the PhD
- Post-PhD comedown
- The Importance of a PhD Protocol
- Unconventional PhD Career Paths
- 12 Points to Good Academic Writing
- 9-5 vs PhD Life
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- Publish or Perish Post-PhD?
- The End of Month 1: How to Combat PhD Fear
- Life after a PhD
- The PhD Application Process
- Starting a Writing Group
- Week 1 as a PhD Student
- Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it
- A Quick Hello & What’s To Come.
- Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Finishing your PhD
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- Presenting your PhD
- Alternative Realities for PhD Graduates
- Staying motivated throughout your PhD
- What are the benefits of being a PhD student?
- Keeping calm and carrying on!
- How to survive your PhD
- The good and the bad of a PhD
- 10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
- How far Is Too Far In An Interview?
- The hectic life of a PhD student
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Giving back during your PhD
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Positive PhD thinking!
- Communicating science
- PhD time management!
- Turnabout Intruder
- My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
- The Icarus Factor
- Encounter at Farpoint: An Interview with an Old Friend
- [Free report] jobs.ac.uk recruitment trends survey results
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The value of PhD Assessments
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- Time Management I: The Pomodoro Technique
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- The Final Year Panic
- Going Up! The Elevator Pitch
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- The Overactive Imagination of a Doctoral Researcher
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- Integrating Research and Teaching
- What Makes a PhD?
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- Do I need a degree to work in Higher Education?
- Academic Conferences: Small versus Big
- End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!
- Life after a PhD
- Research and work/life balance
- Keeping up to date
- Funding challenges in the arts
- Pregnancy during your PhD
- How to end your career!
- What does it mean to be a PhD student?
- Funding Travel During Your PhD
- Dealing with Monotony in your PhD
- Why Study for a PhD?
- Balancing research and teaching
- Travel During Your PhD
- Diving In
- Improving the treatment of PhD students
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- PhD: Doctor of Procrastination
- New Year, PhD?
- Finding Inspiration
- Surviving at conferences…
- Love your PhD
- Reading week: another name for half-term?
- A day in the life of a PhD student
- Starting out
- Time management: is missing a deadline ever OK?
- Humanities research: pros and cons of online!
- Should we publish less or more?
- No, I’m not on holiday for the next 2 months!
- Students do less work shock!
- The importance of being organised!
- Research: the joy and the pain!
- The virtues of planning ahead!
- Research experience before PhD
- Academics do not just teach
- Countdown timers
- Research during term time: is it possible?
- Quasi-academic jobs
- Statistics in demand
- The sum is greater than the parts
- Keeping track of latest research
- PhDs in the insurance industry
- What Can Universities Do to Help Students Out of the Recession?
- Networking online: how to start?
- Publishing before the PhD
- Portfolio careers: pros and cons
- Drafting theses and papers
- Advantage of posters
- Postdoc advice 2
- Postdoc Advice
- PhD Comics
- Desk-bound research: a good thing or not?
- ResearchChannel.org
- Researcher’s Bible: psychological hurdles
- Turing Award 2008
- Writing a book while teaching: is it possible?
- Problem Finding and the Multidisciplinary Mind
- Blum’s Advice (part 2)
- Blum’s Advice
- RAE 2008: A look at theoretical computer science
- Research: role of problem solving
- Research: role of problem creating
- Videolectures.net
- A new digital library
- Knowing Everything About Nothing!
- PhD Proposals
- Credit Crunch
- A Humanities Perspective
- Research Communities
- PhD Dissertation
- Technical Presentations
- Modeling Systems
- Research leave: a difficult decision
- Hamming’s advice: need for change
- Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes
- Timely Communication
- Refereeing
- The minefield of research funding
- Vitae
- Higher Education Teaching Certification
- Greetings from the library!
- Investment Banking for PhDs – Part II
- Investment Banking for PhDs – Part I
- EPSRC Funding Applications
- Academic Jobs: Disincentives
- Academic job: Incentives
- Real jobseekers’ problems!
- End of year report
- Third Stream: what does it mean for you?
Postdoctoral
- How to stay motivated during your job search
- Journal clubs: an interesting tradition
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- Beware the predatory publisher
- The hunt for literature
- Breaking the publishing barrier
- The benefits and challenges of mobility
- Finishing that first postdoc: a critical moment
Postdoctoral
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- 10 Career Paths for PhDs
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Grant-Writing – the Realities of Postdoc Research!
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
Presentation
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Presenting your PhD
- Communicating science
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- Videolectures.net
- Technical Presentations
Problem Solving
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- You Don’t Use The Library
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- The Final Year Panic
- What Makes a PhD?
- Diving In
- PhDs in the insurance industry
- Research: role of problem solving
- Research: role of problem creating
- Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes
Public Sector Jobs
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
Publications
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- Making the most of conferences
- Co-authoring with students
- Beware the predatory publisher
- Breaking the publishing barrier
- Taking a fresh look at past papers
Real Life PhD Student
- How my PhD years ‘jet packed’ my personal development in unexpected ways
- How photography helped me during my PhD
- Starting a PhD: 10 questions you daren’t ask, answered…
- Well into your PhD? 5 helpful career planning topics
- What I learned when I took on too much: I am not a PhD superhero
- Top Tips for the First Year of a PhD
- Surviving PhD Progression
- An Update: Publications and Presentations
- Lessons Learnt from my PhD (So Far)…
- Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Choosing a supervisor
- PhD Qualification Vs. Personal Identity: Part One
- Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Getting references
- Funding Applications and Good News
- 9-Month Viva and Always, Always Expect the Unexpected
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Challenges Outside of PhD Life
- 12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
- Securing That Academic Job
- Starting to Write the Thesis
- First Day Teaching Syndrome
- You Don’t Use The Library
- Why have I chosen to focus on home schooling?
- Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
- You Have Office Envy
- Publishing Costs HOW Much?!
- You Are A Fraud
- You Think You Work
- New Year’s Resolutions for PhD Success
- The Loch Ness monster, the tooth fairy and work-life balance: Myths we need to get over!
- Christmas as a PhD Student
- MOOC module “How to Survive your PhD” : my reflections at the end
- My First Conference as a PhD Student
- Struggling to Put Pen to Paper
- Four weeks and a deadline: curiosity, confusion, boredom and love in #survivephd15
- Settling into PhD Life
- Why I have chosen to pursue evolutionary psychology
- Thinking Outside of Your Own Field
- ‘Upgrading’ to a PhD
- Preparing to Start your PhD Journey
- Saying No (Nicely)
- The Importance of a PhD Protocol
- Reasons to Blog as a PhD Student
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- Writing a Successful PhD Application
- The End of Month 1: How to Combat PhD Fear
- The PhD Application Process
- Starting a Writing Group
- Where to Study for your PhD?
- Week 1 as a PhD Student
- The planning fallacy: Underestimating your task completion times
- Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it
- A Quick Hello & What’s To Come.
- Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Finishing your PhD
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- Reaching the finish line
- Making Networking Work for You
- Presenting your PhD
- Alternative Realities for PhD Graduates
- Staying motivated throughout your PhD
- What are the benefits of being a PhD student?
- Keeping calm and carrying on!
- How to survive your PhD
- The good and the bad of a PhD
- 10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
- The hectic life of a PhD student
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Giving back during your PhD
- Positive PhD thinking!
- Communicating science
- PhD time management!
- Clinical Leadership in the NHS : An interview with Bernie Divall
- My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The Value of PhD Assessments #2
- The value of PhD Assessments
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- Time Management I: The Pomodoro Technique
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- The Final Year Panic
- Going Up! The Elevator Pitch
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- The Overactive Imagination of a Doctoral Researcher
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- Integrating Research and Teaching
- If Only I’d Known! Three PhD Tips
- What Makes a PhD?
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- Academic Conferences: Small versus Big
- Life after a PhD
- Keeping up to date
- Pregnancy during your PhD
- What does it mean to be a PhD student?
- Funding Travel During Your PhD
- Dealing with Monotony in your PhD
- Why Study for a PhD?
- Travel During Your PhD
- Diving In
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- PhD: Doctor of Procrastination
- New Year, PhD?
- Finding Inspiration
- Staying Motivated
- Surviving at conferences…
- Love your PhD
- A day in the life of a PhD student
- Starting out
- Presentation skills
- Conferences: how to choose between them
- Conference papers and presenting a good one
- ‘Everything is a project’
- Want to blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- Research experience before PhD
- Academics do not just teach
- Some comments on vivas
- End of the road
- Countdown timers
- Micromanaging supervisors
- Habilitation
- Quasi-academic jobs
- Statistics in demand
- Efficient literature overview
- The sum is greater than the parts
- Keeping track of latest research
- PhDs in the insurance industry
- Publishing before the PhD
- PhD examination
- Part time jobs during a PhD
- Drafting theses and papers
- Advantage of posters
- Postdoc advice 2
- Postdoc Advice
- Mathematics and Art
- Wireless Presenter
- AAIM 2009
- PhD Comics
- ResearchChannel.org
- Researcher’s Bible: psychological hurdles
- Turing Award 2008
- Four golden rules for scientists
- Financial computing
- Problem Finding and the Multidisciplinary Mind
- The Power of Graphs
- Good Mathematics
- Blum’s Advice (part 2)
- Blum’s Advice
- AAMAS 2009
- RAE 2008: A look at theoretical computer science
- Research: role of problem solving
- Research: role of problem creating
- Making the most of a PhD
- Videolectures.net
- Grant Applications
- Eric Schmidt, Google and Technology Policy
- Consultancy Roles for PhD’s
- A new digital library
- Economics and Computer Science
- Knowing Everything About Nothing!
- BCTCS
- PhD Proposals
- Algorithmic Decision Theory
- How to Have a Bad Research Career
- Credit Crunch
- A Humanities Perspective
- Research Communities
- PhD Dissertation
- Technical Presentations
- Opportunities in Singapore
- Backing Up Work
- Modeling Systems
- Hamming’s advice: need for change
- Elements of Style
- Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes
- Timely Communication
- Refereeing
- How to Write Mathematics
- Funding For Travel
- The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part II
- The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part I
- Vitae
- Letters to a Young Mathematician
- Conference Update
- Higher Education Teaching Certification
- Putting Things into Perspective
- Academic Posters
- Thesis Writing: Benefits of Latex
- Academic Writing
- Thank-you Notes
- Conference Organization – Part I
- Investment Banking for PhDs – Part II
- Investment Banking for PhDs – Part I
- EPSRC Funding Applications
- Academic Jobs: Disincentives
- Academic job: Incentives
- Accept Me, Accept Me Not: Applying for PhDs
Recruit Staff
- HE Recruitment 2017 Highlights
- Top 10 recruiter locations across various disciplines
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase, CIPD
- Recruitment Methods and Effectiveness – Introduction
- jobs.ac.uk hosted recruitment event
- Top questions you should ask a university Applicant Tracking System provider
- 5 great reasons to recruit staff in December
- 5 steps to successful recruitment planning
- Augmented reality for university recruitment?
- [Free report] jobs.ac.uk recruitment trends survey results
- Rise in online recruitment
- It’s easy being green: Using your green agenda for employee engagement
- Legislation on workplace disputes changing
- How can you have the perfect recruitment website?
- Migrant workers – have you seen the TV adverts?
Recruitment
- Supporting The Role Of Academics As An Administrator
- How far Is Too Far In An Interview?
- Do I need a degree to work in Higher Education?
- Dealing with Change at Work
- What NOT to say in an interview
- How can a temp job boost your career prospects?
- The other parts of the interview – Part III
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part II
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part I
Recruitment And Selection
- HE Recruitment 2017 Highlights
- Top 10 recruiter locations across various disciplines
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase, CIPD
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase – Search Higher
- Recruitment Methods and Effectiveness – Introduction
- jobs.ac.uk hosted recruitment event
- UK & Ireland HE Recruitment Trends 2016
- 10 steps to managing recruitment more strategically
- UK jobs market shows signs of revival
- Rise in online recruitment
- It’s easy being green: Using your green agenda for employee engagement
- UPA Conference 2009: Enhancing the value of HR in HE
- Legislation on workplace disputes changing
- How can you have the perfect recruitment website?
- Finding a job online is mind-numbing
- How will the rising cost of fuel affect recruitment?
- Job application forms take too long to complete
- Personality tests for job applicants are a waste of time
- The death of newspapers?
Recruitment Tips
- HE Recruitment 2017 Highlights
- Recruitment Methods and Effectiveness – Introduction
- jobs.ac.uk hosted recruitment event
- UK & Ireland HE Recruitment Trends 2016
- 10 steps to managing recruitment more strategically
- 10 steps to help you choose the right jobs board for your vacancy
- How to write killer job titles for jobs boards
Research
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- Lifelong academic?
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- 12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
- You Don’t Use The Library
- You Have Office Envy
- You Are A Fraud
- You Think You Work
- My First Conference as a PhD Student
- These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- The Importance of a PhD Protocol
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- The End of Month 1: How to Combat PhD Fear
- Life after a PhD
- The PhD Application Process
- Starting a Writing Group
- Week 1 as a PhD Student
- Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it
- A Quick Hello & What’s To Come.
- Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Finishing your PhD
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- Presenting your PhD
- Staying motivated throughout your PhD
- What are the benefits of being a PhD student?
- Keeping calm and carrying on!
- How to survive your PhD
- The good and the bad of a PhD
- 10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
- The hectic life of a PhD student
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Giving back during your PhD
- Positive PhD thinking!
- PhD time management!
- Turnabout Intruder
- My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
- The Icarus Factor
- Encounter at Farpoint: An Interview with an Old Friend
- [Free report] jobs.ac.uk recruitment trends survey results
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The value of PhD Assessments
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Time Management I: The Pomodoro Technique
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- The Final Year Panic
- Going Up! The Elevator Pitch
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- The Overactive Imagination of a Doctoral Researcher
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- Integrating Research and Teaching
- What Makes a PhD?
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- Academic Conferences: Small versus Big
- End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!
- Life after a PhD
- Research and work/life balance
- Funding challenges in the arts
- Pregnancy during your PhD
- How to end your career!
- What does it mean to be a PhD student?
- Funding Travel During Your PhD
- Dealing with Monotony in your PhD
- Why Study for a PhD?
- Balancing research and teaching
- Travel During Your PhD
- Diving In
- Improving the treatment of PhD students
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- PhD: Doctor of Procrastination
- New Year, PhD?
- Finding Inspiration
- Surviving at conferences…
- Love your PhD
- Reading week: another name for half-term?
- A day in the life of a PhD student
- Starting out
- Time management: is missing a deadline ever OK?
- Humanities research: pros and cons of online!
- Should we publish less or more?
- No, I’m not on holiday for the next 2 months!
- Students do less work shock!
- The importance of being organised!
- Research: the joy and the pain!
- The virtues of planning ahead!
- Research experience before PhD
- Research during term time: is it possible?
- Quasi-academic jobs
- The sum is greater than the parts
- Keeping track of latest research
- Networking online: how to start?
- Publishing before the PhD
- Portfolio careers: pros and cons
- Drafting theses and papers
- Advantage of posters
- Postdoc advice 2
- PhD Comics
- Desk-bound research: a good thing or not?
- ResearchChannel.org
- Researcher’s Bible: psychological hurdles
- Turing Award 2008
- Writing a book while teaching: is it possible?
- Problem Finding and the Multidisciplinary Mind
- Blum’s Advice (part 2)
- Blum’s Advice
- RAE 2008: A look at theoretical computer science
- Research: role of problem solving
- Research: role of problem creating
- A new digital library
- Knowing Everything About Nothing!
- PhD Proposals
- Credit Crunch
- Research Communities
- PhD Dissertation
- Modeling Systems
- Research leave: a difficult decision
- Hamming’s advice: need for change
- Refereeing
- The minefield of research funding
- Vitae
- Greetings from the library!
- End of year report
- Third Stream: what does it mean for you?
Research Communication
Researcher Tips
Researchers
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- 10 Career Paths for PhDs
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
- Surviving the viva
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- The Digital Academic: Blogging tips from Thesis Whisperer Inger Mewburn
- The summer research To Do list
- Beware the predatory publisher
- The hunt for literature
- Breaking the publishing barrier
Science
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- The End of Month 1: How to Combat PhD Fear
- The PhD Application Process
- Week 1 as a PhD Student
- A Quick Hello & What’s To Come.
- Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Finishing your PhD
- Presenting your PhD
- Staying motivated throughout your PhD
- What are the benefits of being a PhD student?
- Keeping calm and carrying on!
- How to survive your PhD
- The good and the bad of a PhD
- 10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
- The hectic life of a PhD student
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Giving back during your PhD
- Positive PhD thinking!
- Communicating science
- PhD time management!
- My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
- The value of PhD Assessments
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- The Final Year Panic
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- What Makes a PhD?
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- Life after a PhD
- Pregnancy during your PhD
- What does it mean to be a PhD student?
- Dealing with Monotony in your PhD
- Travel During Your PhD
- Diving In
- PhD: Doctor of Procrastination
- Finding Inspiration
- A day in the life of a PhD student
- Starting out
- Keeping track of latest research
- Postdoc advice 2
- ResearchChannel.org
- Four golden rules for scientists
- Problem Finding and the Multidisciplinary Mind
- The Power of Graphs
- Good Mathematics
- Blum’s Advice (part 2)
- Blum’s Advice
- RAE 2008: A look at theoretical computer science
- BCTCS
- Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes
Science And Technology
- Research communication – are we getting it right when targeting policy and practice?
- Antibacterial Resistance: We Are Already at War
- Reference Management Software Zotero
- Zika Virus Might Target Development in Neural Stem Cells
- Life Sciences – Writers Wanted
- Journal clubs: an interesting tradition
- What does it take to be a bio-scientist? A personal opinion.
- Multidisciplinary research: building a smart, sustainable future or high-technology dead-ends?
- Rethinking industry dynamics: what’s your velocity regime?
- Scientific Outreach: So Many Reasons to Bother
- Data-publishing for Better Science
- Biocatalysis: Harnessing the Power of the Enzymes
- Interview With The Fruit Fly Expert
- Ribo-T: the protein factory of the future
- Medical writing – getting to the hard facts
- Conflicts of interest: pedagogy, professional practice and research
- Chemistry: let’s make the public love it!
- The language of life
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- Conference slides: the art of show and tell
- Steps in science communication
- Evolution in Vehicular Monitoring
- #AcWriMo. Why I write best at home, from our Science Correspondent
- SON- Self Organizing Networks
- Interference Management in LTE
- The case of why we even bother about the ambiguous universe
- Imaging and Video Coding
- Laser Communication in Deep Space
- The benefits and challenges of mobility
- The case of Publication Bias in Evidence Based Medicine
- Back in the lab: molecular self-assembly on surfaces
- Confidence: the essential requirement for tenure?
- Taking a fresh look at past papers
- Finishing the job: how can we help students turn a thesis into publications?
- A step back gives a wider view
- Finishing that first postdoc: a critical moment
- Returning to Science: on Ada Lovelace day
- The case of genetic lottery: Why no one is better than anyone else
- The case of the Mirror Neurons that shaped our civilization
- Spectrum Crowding
- Pre Eventual System
- GPS and LightSquared Coexistence
- UARS Scenario
- LIPC
- Mystery or Misery – Weather Devices
- Termed as Scintillation
- RFID Positive and Negative Influence
- Quantum Future
Simply Better
- jobs.ac.uk’s Jane Kingman wins Unsung Hero award
- HE Recruitment 2017 Highlights
- Top 10 recruiter locations across various disciplines
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase, CIPD
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase – Search Higher
- HE Recruitment 2017: Session Showcase – Enhance Media
- HE Recruitment 2017 unveils session details
- HE Recruitment 2017 announce their keynote speakers
- Recruitment Methods and Effectiveness – Introduction
- jobs.ac.uk hosted recruitment event
- UK & Ireland HE Recruitment Trends 2016
- Our Google Hangout on Research Impact and Public Engagement attracts over 2000 PhD and research students
- Introducing our new PhD portal
- 10 steps to managing recruitment more strategically
- Top questions you should ask a university Applicant Tracking System provider
- 10 steps to help you choose the right jobs board for your vacancy
- How to write killer job titles for jobs boards
- 5 great reasons to recruit staff in December
- 5 steps to successful recruitment planning
- How to write a recruitment blog for your careers website
- Free report: recruitment effectiveness for universities 2013
- Augmented reality for university recruitment?
- jobs.ac.uk attracts nearly 1.4 million unique browsers in latest ABC audit – up 91% from 2012
- Infographic: What do jobseekers really think?
- Recruitment networking event, Wednesday 17th July 2013
- [Free report] jobs.ac.uk recruitment trends survey results
- Using infographics for recruitment
- New arrivals to the jobs.ac.uk team
- jobs.ac.uk attend ‘Online Recruitment: Year Ahead’ conference
- jobs.ac.uk launches free mobile jobs app for iPhone and Android
- jobs.ac.uk launches new recruiter site and CV database
- Online Recruitment 2012: The Year Ahead
- ‘Essentials of Effective Online Recruitment’ seminar
- QR Codes for recruitment
- Google+: What is it & can it be used for recruitment?
- jobs.ac.uk launch new e-Recruitment system for universities
- jobs.ac.uk announce new ‘UK Immigration & International Recruitment’ workshop
- Using The Big Three Social Networks to Recruit
- UKBA announces important changes to Resident Labour Market Test
- Are employees costing organisations £1.3 billion in personal social networking?
- Are you monitoring your online employer brand?
- UK jobs market shows signs of revival
- Rise in online recruitment
- It’s easy being green: Using your green agenda for employee engagement
- The Challenge for Higher Education – John Cridland’s thoughts on the future of Higher Education
- UPA Conference 2009: Enhancing the value of HR in HE
- Digital Marketing Careers Advice
- Legislation on workplace disputes changing
- Twitter: what is it and how can you use it for recruitment
- How can you have the perfect recruitment website?
- Snow stops play, almost
- jobs.ac.uk snow how it’s done
- CIPD Web 2.0 Seminar with jobs.ac.uk
- "Mail Goggles" and getting adverts right first time…
- Finding a job online is mind-numbing
- Migrant workers – have you seen the TV adverts?
- How will the rising cost of fuel affect recruitment?
- Normal service will be resumed soon
- Job application forms take too long to complete
- Personality tests for job applicants are a waste of time
- The death of newspapers?
- Recruitment advertising workshops – Manchester and Birmingham
- Use your email signature block to drive applicants to your recruitment site
- A – A to Z of recruitment and HR
- What you can learn from Australians searching for jobs
- Digital Masterclass on PR and legal issues of Web 2.0 at MMU
- UK online recruitment advertising spend increases – again
- University of Nottingham HR win award for e-recruitment
- Collecting email addresses from your vacancy pages
- What job seekers look for in job adverts
- How candidates can spoil your Applicant Tracking System
- Attracting passive candidates – Part one – What are they?
Social History
- Histories of cinema: Japanese acrobats, Fred dancing upside down and Joseph flying across the room. The camera never lies?
- History? Not without language!
- Histories of cinema: When censorship backfires. Watching Gilda in dictatorship Spain
- Lessons in herstory: Mary Moffat, explorer of the Kalahari
- The lady archer: from invalidism to the New Woman
- Teaching Lynching using the Visual Image
Social Media
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Think Negative! Reframing Positivethink…
- Building A Career-Search Network As A New Graduate
- 10 (non techy) tips for studying music production!
- 4 Steps to Make Your Graduate CV ‘Job Ready’!
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- Graduating soon? LinkedIn should be your new best friend
- How not to tell someone ‘no’ on LinkedIn
- Think before mentioning an employer on Twitter
- 4% drop in graduate vacancies!
- Using The Big Three Social Networks to Recruit
Social Media
- How to Create an Academic Website for Free!
- MOOC for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Digital Skills: What Are They And How Are Yours?
- The Value Of Lurking
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- Academics, Are You Linked In?
- Why do academics blog?
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Using infographics for recruitment
- Google+: What is it & can it be used for recruitment?
- Are employees costing organisations £1.3 billion in personal social networking?
- Are you monitoring your online employer brand?
Social Sciences
- Two Jobs, One Mission: The Rise in Student Mental Health
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- Making the most of conferences
- The summer research To Do list
- Co-authoring with students
- Beware the predatory publisher
- The hunt for literature
- Breaking the publishing barrier
Soft Skills
Teaching
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- Securing That Academic Job
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Life after a PhD
- Encounter at Farpoint: An Interview with an Old Friend
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Integrating Research and Teaching
- End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!
- Private tutoring opportunities
- How to end your career!
- Becoming a better teacher: plagiarism
- Building a portfolio academic career
- Balancing research and teaching
- Becoming a lecturer: is it worth it?!
- Improving the treatment of PhD students
- Finding Inspiration
- Marking and improving your time management
- Reading week: another name for half-term?
- Advantages and disadvantages of ‘portfolio careers’
- Welcoming new students, and making sure we keep them
- Time management: is missing a deadline ever OK?
- Countdown to the start of term!
- Importance of student exchanges
- Teaching as a postgraduate
- Students do less work shock!
- The importance of being organised!
- Merit pay: a good idea?
- Marking: the worst part of the job?
- Private Higher Education
- The virtues of planning ahead!
- Research during term time: is it possible?
- What is a seminar?
- Clearing week
- Portfolio careers: pros and cons
- Marking season is upon us!
- Writing a book while teaching: is it possible?
- The Power of Graphs
- Videolectures.net
- Academic buzzword no. 1 : skills!
- A Day in the Life…
- Seminars and tutorials: getting students talking!
- Impact of government policies: some thoughts!
- The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part II
- The Ten Commandments (for teachers), Part I
- Rate my professors controversy!
- Higher Education Teaching Certification
- Putting Things into Perspective
- Technology in the Classroom: part 2
- Privatisation in HE: interesting developments
- It’s that time again: graduation!
- End of year report
- Marking season well under-way!
- Butcher, baker, candlestick maker?
- Lecturing
- That mythical quiet period….?
Teaching & Learning
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- The Best Book of Quotes: Famous Quotes for Life and Happiness
- Impact: how cultural factors vary its definition
- Imagine that!
- Institutional Signature Pedagogy – Like Avocado on Toast?
- Things to consider before you go on the distance learning road
- And the Next Step?
- The beautiful game, by the greatest artists in Europe presented by the past masters
- Surviving the viva
- Journal clubs: an interesting tradition
- How to Create an Academic Website for Free!
- Preparing A Cultural Exposition
- Scientific Outreach: So Many Reasons to Bother
- Academic Bureaucracy Is Discouraging
- Life after a PhD
- Lady Librarian becomes Revalidated Fellow
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- New Year’s Resolutions?
- It’s down to YOU – creating your own professional development!
- Reflective Journals and E-Portfolios
- What is a Learning Technologist?
- Teaching Artist?
- Pre Eventual System
- Pros and cons of working outside America
- Myths of American History
- Teaching American History with Visual Sources
- African History portal
- Teaching censorship: a useful resource
- The experience of non-whites in Europe
- Survey courses: what is the priority?
- History or American Studies?
- To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question?
- Best History Sites internet hub
- Teaching Lynching using the Visual Image
- Building a Learning and Teaching Strategy
- American History Teaching Resource
- Pridefully Oblivious
Teaching & Learning
- “What for?”: when languages were an unpopular option
- A Good Spanish Book
- Training in equality and diversity: the pilot and the nurse
- Teamwork: Helping Your Department Colleagues Succeed
- Which English To Teach?
- My Research Strategies
- Spanish Studies
- Arts and/ or Sciences: how to solve the riddle of the sphinx
- Everything I did wrong…
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Quick Tips For Teachers
- The God Of Languages: The Specialized Native Teacher
- A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
- The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
- Turning forty: the age of reason?
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- To intervene or not to intervene: that is the question
- International Women’s Day: The importance of girls’ education
- Fahrenheit 451: The day they destroyed the library
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- A lecture is a performance: do not forget your audience
- Not for school, but for life
- Can you ever stop learning? : The clay jug
- Using film in the language class
- Do not panic. It is just grammar
- What happens when everything goes wrong with your teaching?
- Two New MAs in Town: Creative Writing at Cambridge, Self-publishing at University of Central Lancashire
- Latin lingua viva est: why the Classics are necessary
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer (Part 2)
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer
- Gunpowder, Reason and Plot: Malcolm Bradbury and the Creative Writing Revolution
- Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- Can Creative Writing be Taught?
- Creative Writing in the Academy
- The Corporate Humanist: Why This Degree?
- Feeling English, Thinking Teaching: Language Workshops in Calcutta
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- Let’s Talk: Dr. Ritu Mahendru on Networking and Cultural Mobility
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- After the Riots
- Research and Teaching: the Stretch
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
- Let’s Talk: Staying Earthed
Teaching In Japan
- 20 reasons why every EFL learner should have an iPad
- How to be a good English teacher: Advice from a Japanese learner of English
- Kickstarting your own ELT publication
- Taking a language learning card game to market: An interview with Sean Anderson
- Aphorisms of English Language Teaching
- Losing our trousers: The prevalence of American English in TEFL
- Top Ten iOS Apps for EFL Educators
- 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An Interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 1)
- 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 2)
- Teaching English at Japanese Universities
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 2)
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 1)
- ELT and Technology in Japan: The vision versus the reality
- Doing an MA in TEFL/TESL
- A TEFL box of tricks
- Being a female English teacher in Japan
- Choosing language role models carefully
- Using students’ L1 in the English language classroom
- Interview: Teaching Young Learners of English in Sendai (Part 1)
- English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 2)
- English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 1)
- Teaching English in Japan in 2011
- Working as an ALT in Japan – 5 Tips
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- 2 Years in TEFL: What I’ve learnt
- From Kansai to Hokkaido
- Types of TEFL Employer
- Moving House in Japan
- Teaching English at Schools in Japan
- Japanese Income Tax Return
- The Culture of Teaching in Japan
- Teaching Diary: Day 2
- Teaching Diary: Day 1
- The Top 5 Things about Teaching in Japan
- Teaching at a University Japan
- Life in Japan
- Eikaiwa – English Schools in Japan
- Japanese Working Visa and Health Insurance
- Teaching in Japan – Festivals and Special Days
- TEFL Teaching Tips (TTTs)
- TEFL Resources for Dictating
- Teaching in Japan: How Much Will I Earn? Part 2
Teaching Tips
- Encouraging shy ESL students out of their shells
- Why #ELTChat is great. A celebration of a community
- 20 reasons why every EFL learner should have an iPad
- How to be a good English teacher: Advice from a Japanese learner of English
- Aphorisms of English Language Teaching
- Fantastic free websites for learners of English
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 2)
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 1)
- A TEFL box of tricks
- Choosing language role models carefully
- Using students’ L1 in the English language classroom
- Promoting speaking fluency
- Freelance TEFL opportunities; a refreshing alternative to teaching classes of kids
- Working as an ALT in Japan – 5 Tips
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- How to Teach One-to-one English Lessons
- How To Teach Unplugged – The Naked English Teacher
- Motivation in the ESL Classroom
- How to Teach Fluency in English – Part 2
- How to Teach Fluency in English
- ESL Textbooks and useless English
- How to save a bad lesson
- Teaching techniques: Eliciting
- How do you teach English?
- English Methods: Task Based Teaching
- TEFL Teaching Tips (TTTs)
- TEFL Resources for Dictating
- IELTS: What is it? Why should you care?
- TOEIC Listening and Reading Test
- How’s Your Culture? TEFL Classroom Rules
- Increasing Your Confidence
- Problems with ELT Textbooks
- How to Use TTT Effectively
- Teacher Talking Time (TTT) in ELT
- Summer Teaching in Japan
- Teaching Mixed Level TEFL Classes
- TEFL Communicative Lessons
- Overcoming Shyness and Reluctance to Speak in TEFL
- Error Correction: How To
- English Reading Skills
- Teaching English and Using English
- Teaching English – Some Refreshing Ideas
- When Students Don’t Understand
- Getting Your Students to Speak English
- TEFL Listening Activities
- Teaching English to Absolute Beginners
- Top Tips: Using the Internet to teach TEFL
- Learn from Hollywood: Using DVDs in TEFL
- Using Skype to Teach TEFL
- A Day in the Life of a TEFL Teacher
- Fluency or accuracy?
- TEFL: The Importance of Feedback
- TEFL: The Importance of Writing
- The Language Learning Process
- Teaching Grammar
- Conversation Classes
- The TEFL Ten Commandments for Teachers (Part 2): Thou Shalt Not Teach Bad Grammar
- TEFL Lessons: Games (Part 2)
- The TEFL Teacher’s Ten Commandments
- The First Year is Always the Toughest
- TEFL Lessons: Games
- Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Teaching Conversational English
- Moving House
- I Hate Commuting
- Student Issues
- A Mixed Bag
- The Challenge of Teaching English
- Is TEFL for you?
TEFL Advice
- Using Technology To Shape Language Teaching
- Teaching English in England
- Why #ELTChat is great. A celebration of a community
- How to be a good English teacher: Advice from a Japanese learner of English
- Kickstarting your own ELT publication
- Aphorisms of English Language Teaching
- Top Ten iOS Apps for EFL Educators
- 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 2)
- Teaching English at Japanese Universities
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 2)
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 1)
- Doing an MA in TEFL/TESL
- A TEFL box of tricks
- Being a female English teacher in Japan
- Using students’ L1 in the English language classroom
- Promoting speaking fluency
- Interview: Teaching Young Learners of English in Sendai (Part 1)
- Turning your TEFL gap year into a TEFL career
- Freelance TEFL opportunities; a refreshing alternative to teaching classes of kids
- Teaching English in Japan in 2011
- 2 Years in TEFL: What I’ve learnt
- Teaching English in 2010: Goals
- The role of Language Assistant (ALT)
- Work-Life Balance for Teachers
- TEFL Resources for Dictating
- TEFL Drilling Exercises
- ESL Games and Activities
- TEFL Jobs: What You Need to Know
- Teaching English Part-Time in Japan
- TEFL Homework Assignments
- Teaching Mixed Level TEFL Classes
- TEFL Professional Development
- Overcoming Shyness and Reluctance to Speak in TEFL
- Error Correction: Why and When?
- Should I Continue Teaching?
- EFL Teacher Time Management
- Advice for TEFL Beginners
- TEFL Lesson Plans: Top Tips
- EFL Teachers, "Be Ambitious!"
- Interview With a TEFLer: Alex Case (Part I)
- What is a Good TEFL Student?
- What is a good TEFL teacher?
- What Teaching in Japan is Really Like
- Using Music in the TEFL Classroom
- Giving Instructions
- Role-Plays in the TEFL Classroom
- Using Textbooks
- 5 Reasons to TEFL in 2009
- TEFL: The Importance of Feedback
- TEFL: The Importance of Writing
- TEFL Beginners: Where to go?
- In It For The Money
- Interview With a TEFLer
- Why Do People Learn English?
- For Those About to Teach, We Salute You
- What TEFL Needs From You
- 5 Thing I Love About TEFL
- The TEFL Ten Commandments for Teachers (Part 2): Thou Shalt Not Teach Bad Grammar
- The First Year is Always the Toughest
- 8 Steps to TEFL Glory!
- What to Look For in an Employer
- Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Teaching Conversational English
- A Mixed Bag
- Relocating Is Not Easy
- TOEIC, or not TOEIC?
- The Challenge of Teaching English
- TEFL Career Development: DELTA
- The Joys of TEFL in Japan
- TEFL Business English
- Private Lessons or School Teaching?
- TEFL Lesson Plans
TEFL Country Profile
- Teaching English off the beaten track – an EFL teacher in Belarus
- Teaching English in Korea; a 5 minute interview
- Teaching English in Japan in 2011
- Can I Get a TEFL Job in China?
- Teaching English in Africa… for money
- TEFL Jobs and English Language Teaching in Africa
- TEFL in the Middle East
- TEFL Beginners: Where to go?
- In It For The Money
- TEFL Country Profile: France
- Teaching in Thailand: Do I Need a Qualification?
- TEFL Country Profile: China
TEFL Jobs
- Teaching English at Japanese Universities
- Teaching English off the beaten track – an EFL teacher in Belarus
- Teaching English in Korea; a 5 minute interview
- Freelance TEFL opportunities; a refreshing alternative to teaching classes of kids
- Teaching at a University Japan
- Life After TEFL: Jobs back home
- Teaching English in Africa… for money
- TEFL Jobs and English Language Teaching in Africa
- A Day in the Life of a TEFL Teacher
- TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 1
- TEFL Job Interviews
- TEFL in the Middle East
- Does Age Matter in TEFL?
- 5 Thing I Love About TEFL
- What to Look For in an Employer
TEFL Journey
- An Englishman’s Decade in Japan
- Encouraging shy ESL students out of their shells
- Using Technology To Shape Language Teaching
- Teaching English in England
- 3 Education Startups for ELT Teachers
- Why #ELTChat is great. A celebration of a community
- How Much Can You Save Teaching in Japan: A Cost Breakdown
- How Much Can You Save Teaching in Korea: A Cost Breakdown
- 20 reasons why every EFL learner should have an iPad
- How to be a good English teacher: Advice from a Japanese learner of English
- Kickstarting your own ELT publication
- Taking a language learning card game to market: An interview with Sean Anderson
- Aphorisms of English Language Teaching
- Losing our trousers: The prevalence of American English in TEFL
- Top Ten iOS Apps for EFL Educators
- Fantastic free websites for learners of English
- 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An Interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 1)
- 30 Years Teaching English in Japan: An interview with Marc Helgesen (Part 2)
- Teaching English at Japanese Universities
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 2)
- Interview with Marcos Benevides: Extensive Reading (Part 1)
- ELT and Technology in Japan: The vision versus the reality
- Doing an MA in TEFL/TESL
- A TEFL box of tricks
- Being a female English teacher in Japan
- English: The World Language (Infographic)
- Why is English the dominant world language?
- Teaching English off the beaten track – an EFL teacher in Belarus
- Choosing language role models carefully
- Using students’ L1 in the English language classroom
- Promoting speaking fluency
- Create a Top TEFL CV
- Interview: Teaching Young Learners of English in Sendai (Part 1)
- Teaching English in Korea; a 5 minute interview
- Turning your TEFL gap year into a TEFL career
- English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 2)
- English teaching in Japan: A Japanese perspective (Part 1)
- Freelance TEFL opportunities; a refreshing alternative to teaching classes of kids
- The role of native-speaker teachers in English language education
- Teaching English in Japan in 2011
- Working as an ALT in Japan – 5 Tips
- Want to Blog for jobs.ac.uk?
- 2 Years in TEFL: What I’ve learnt
- From Kansai to Hokkaido
- Types of TEFL Employer
- Moving House in Japan
- Teaching English at Schools in Japan
- How to Teach One-to-one English Lessons
- How To Teach Unplugged – The Naked English Teacher
- Interview with Hokkaido Insider (Part 2)
- Teaching in Japan: Interview with Hokkaido Insider (Part 1)
- The effect of the financial crisis on English Language Teaching
- Motivation in the ESL Classroom
- ESL English Teacher Resume Tips
- How to Teach Fluency in English – Part 2
- How to Teach Fluency in English
- Interview with a Teacher – Kevin Burns (Part 1)
- Japanese Income Tax Return
- TEFL Interview: Let’s Japan on… Japan
- TEFL Interview: Let’s Japan on Eikaiwa
- ESL Textbooks and useless English
- The Culture of Teaching in Japan
- TEFL Cover Letter and Template
- Teaching Diary: Day 2
- Teaching Diary: Day 1
- How to save a bad lesson
- Japan, GEOS, and other news
- Teaching techniques: Eliciting
- Teaching English in 2010: Goals
- The Top 5 Things about Teaching in Japan
- The role of Language Assistant (ALT)
- How do you teach English?
- Distance Learning Post-graduate TEFL Qualifications
- Studying for an MA TESOL
- Teaching at a University Japan
- TEFL in Demand
- Life in Japan
- TEFL Transferable Skills
- English Methods: Task Based Teaching
- Life After TEFL: Jobs back home
- Eikaiwa – English Schools in Japan
- Work-Life Balance for Teachers
- Japanese Working Visa and Health Insurance
- Can I Get a TEFL Job in China?
- Teaching in Japan – Festivals and Special Days
- English as a Second Language and EFL Lesson Plans
- TEFL Teaching Tips (TTTs)
- TEFL Resources for Dictating
- TEFL Drilling Exercises
- Some Things You Can’t Do Without in TEFL
- IELTS: What is it? Why should you care?
- Teaching English in Africa… for money
- TEFL Jobs and English Language Teaching in Africa
- TOEIC Listening and Reading Test
- ESL Games and Activities
- How’s Your Culture? TEFL Classroom Rules
- TEFL Jobs: What You Need to Know
- Teaching English Part-Time in Japan
- Teaching in Japan: How Much Will I Earn? Part 2
- Increasing Your Confidence
- Problems with ELT Textbooks
- How to Use TTT Effectively
- Teacher Talking Time (TTT) in ELT
- Summer Teaching in Japan
- TEFL Homework Assignments
- Teaching Mixed Level TEFL Classes
- TEFL Professional Development
- TEFL Job Interview Questions
- TEFL How To: Japanese Working Visa
- TEFL Communicative Lessons
- Overcoming Shyness and Reluctance to Speak in TEFL
- Error Correction: How To
- Error Correction: Why and When?
- Diploma in Teaching English = $$$
- Should I Continue Teaching?
- English Reading Skills
- Teaching English and Using English
- Teaching English – Some Refreshing Ideas
- When Students Don’t Understand
- Getting Your Students to Speak English
- EFL Teacher Time Management
- Advice for TEFL Beginners
- EFL Teacher Interview
- TEFL Listening Activities
- Teaching English to Absolute Beginners
- TEFL Lesson Plans: Top Tips
- How to Teach Vocabulary
- EFL Teachers, "Be Ambitious!"
- Teaching Resources: Top Websites for TEFL
- Top Tips: Using the Internet to teach TEFL
- Interview With a TEFLer: Alex Case (Part I)
- What is a Good TEFL Student?
- What is a good TEFL teacher?
- What Teaching in Japan is Really Like
- TEFL Certificate Courses – Buyer Beware
- Using Music in the TEFL Classroom
- Giving Instructions
- Learn from Hollywood: Using DVDs in TEFL
- Using Skype to Teach TEFL
- A Day in the Life of a TEFL Teacher
- Role-Plays in the TEFL Classroom
- Using Textbooks
- Fluency or accuracy?
- 5 Reasons to TEFL in 2009
- TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 2
- TEFL Job Interview Tips: Part 1
- TEFL Job Interviews
- TEFL: The Importance of Feedback
- TEFL in the Middle East
- TEFL: The Importance of Writing
- The Language Learning Process
- Teaching Grammar
- TEFL Beginners: Where to go?
- In It For The Money
- Interview With a TEFLer
- Does Age Matter in TEFL?
- Conversation Classes
- TEFL: Needs Analysis
- Why Do People Learn English?
- TEFL Country Profile: Spain
- For Those About to Teach, We Salute You
- TEFL Country Profile: France
- What TEFL Needs From You
- Teaching in Thailand: Do I Need a Qualification?
- 5 Thing I Love About TEFL
- The TEFL Ten Commandments for Teachers (Part 2): Thou Shalt Not Teach Bad Grammar
- TEFL Lessons: Games (Part 2)
- The TEFL Teacher’s Ten Commandments
- The First Year is Always the Toughest
- TEFL Lessons: Games
- 8 Steps to TEFL Glory!
- What to Look For in an Employer
- Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- Teaching Conversational English
- Moving House
- TEFL Employers: Bigger vs. Smaller
- I Hate Commuting
- Student Issues
- A Mixed Bag
- Relocating Is Not Easy
- TOEIC, or not TOEIC?
- The Challenge of Teaching English
- TEFL Career Development: DELTA
- Is a TEFL qualification necessary?
- TEFL Country Profile: China
- The Joys of TEFL in Japan
- TEFL Business English
- Private Lessons or School Teaching?
- Is TEFL for you?
- TEFL Lesson Plans
- Using TEFL to get where you want to be
TEFL News
- The effect of the financial crisis on English Language Teaching
- Japan, GEOS, and other news
- Teaching in Thailand: Do I Need a Qualification?
- TEFL Employers: Bigger vs. Smaller
TEFL Qualifications
- Teaching English at Japanese Universities
- Doing an MA in TEFL/TESL
- Choosing language role models carefully
- Distance Learning Post-graduate TEFL Qualifications
- Studying for an MA TESOL
- TEFL in Demand
- Diploma in Teaching English = $$$
- TEFL Certificate Courses – Buyer Beware
- Teaching in Thailand: Do I Need a Qualification?
- Teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
- TEFL Career Development: DELTA
- Is a TEFL qualification necessary?
The Digital Academic
- Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
- Benefits and concerns of using social media as an academic
- Use your time wisely, automate routine tasks
- Communication, Communication, Communication
- Your personal social media strategy, or Knowing when to say ‘No’ to social media
- Insights from the Research Impact Summit, an interview with Dr Tamika Heiden
- Going viral: 3 tips to help you through
- How to create a professional persona for academic consultancy
- Writing through a fear of writing – featuring 3 most helpful steps.
- 3 ways to save time when building an academic Twitter profile
- Peer Review Week 2016: reviews in the open
- 5 LinkedIn tips for early career researchers
- Me and Sacheen – in the social media spotlight
- Ten steps to get started on Twitter as an academic: part 2
- Ten steps to get started on Twitter as an academic: part 1
- Three tips for Twitter as a (shy) newcomer
- 5 reasons why I read scientific blog posts (or why to blog your science!)
- An interview with Dr Danny Kingsley: Open access & scholarly communication takes collaboration
- I live tweeted, and I liked it.
- Plickers! Engage your students with learning technology
- 7 ways to make the first move when strengthening your network
- Writing made social: you don’t have to write alone
- Twitter for academics – my first ever Twitter chat
- See our collection of Twitter hashtags for researchers – and add to it
- How to Create an Academic Website for Free!
- Tweeting about research and researching about Twitter: a story of collaboration
- The rush to create networks and the need to create conversation spaces
- Data first: remodelling the digital humanities centre
- Top 5 Hashtags for Academic Writing: just in time for #acwrimo!
- MOOC for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Digital identity healthcheck for academics
- Digital Skills: What Are They And How Are Yours?
- How do you measure your social media success? Let’s keep it simple.
- Introducing Vanessa Lao, Strategic Partnerships Manager at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia
- “How to survive your PhD” weeks 2 & 3: growing in confidence
- Open and digital academics: Twitter hashtags to watch or use
- Taking part in a MOOC “How to Survive Your PhD” : Getting started.
- A scholarly corner of Twitter: 12 broad academic Twitter hashtags
- A collaborative working tool called Slack: thoughts on using it
- The Value Of Lurking
- It Started with a Tweet…
- Health check your digital identity
- Let them in: video opens the doors of communication.
- Why choose to digitise? 7 motivations to balance if you’re collaborating.
- Impact, Media and Digital Scholarship
- Everyone’s digitizing: here is one eminent new example!
- Tools for using Twitter: 5 things they might help with
- Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
- Infographic feature: Can I copy it? Copyright consciousness!
- Academics, Are You Linked In?
- How Early Career Researchers Can Make A Case To Be A Digital Academic cont’d
- How Early Career Researchers Can Make A Case To Be A Digital Academic
- Why do academics blog?
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
- How To Prevent Social Media Overload
- Beginning blogging – Emma Cragg writes about how to combat your fears
- A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.
- What’s videography got to do with it? Classicist and guest vlogger Emma Cole shares her advice on academic videos
- 4 Things to Help Novice Users of Virtual Meeting Tools: Making Skype Meetings Run Smoothly
- Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills
- Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability
- Guest post: Abigail Mottershaw shares lessons on impact & online presence for academics
- Curating online content : productivity tools for researchers who use social media and web materials
- Guest post: Dr Marianne Baker’s summary of “How to be a successful digital academic”, an online event
- A social scientist’s adventures in the “Land of Techno”. A story of trepidation, #collaboration & self-education.
- Storing references : tools and tips
- Making the most of conferences
- Co-authoring with students
- Beware the predatory publisher
- Top questions you should ask a university Applicant Tracking System provider
- Breaking the publishing barrier
- Taking a fresh look at past papers
- Augmented reality for university recruitment?
- Using infographics for recruitment
- Google+: What is it & can it be used for recruitment?
- Are employees costing organisations £1.3 billion in personal social networking?
- Are you monitoring your online employer brand?
The Global Postdoc
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- Considering an Academic Career in China Q&A Summary
- Making research space & building a career: the postdoc stage
- Finding Your People: Mentors, Collaborators, and Guardian Angels
- US Doctorate Earners and Their Earning Potential: What Do We Know?
- Glass Ceilings and Revolving Doors: a Crisis for European Doctoral Candidates
- I got a PhD: Now what? Discovering the post-phd career landscape
- Career pathways post-PhD – the impact of increased competition
- Tricks from an expert: how to identify your skills and boost your confidence
- How could I have prepared better for post-PhD life?
- Guest post: From PhD to career librarian: a bold leap or a natural step?
- Am I a PhD ECR? What is an Early Career Researcher?
- Talking about unemployed PhDs
- Grant-Writing – the Realities of Postdoc Research!
- Being a supervisor – 3 things I’ve learnt
- 5 tips for returning to work after a career break
- What does it take to be a bio-scientist? A personal opinion.
- Life after a PhD
- The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox
- You are more than the sum of your thesis
- Do I need a degree to work in Higher Education?
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part II
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part I
- The challenges of living and working abroad – Part II
- The challenges of living and working abroad- Part I
Transferable Skills
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
- Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
- Post-PhD transitions – interview with Dr Ruth Price, Senior Consultant
- On being “overqualified” on the job market
- Mentoring and post-PhD transitions
- Post-PhD job hunt and recruitment agencies
- You Don’t Use The Library
- Ex-academic or now me?
- From A to B via a rather scenic route
- You Think You Work
- Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- Life after a PhD
- Post-PhD life – where do you go from here?
- Preparing for your PhD viva
- Finishing your PhD
- What To Do Whilst Waiting
- Presenting your PhD
- Alternative Realities for PhD Graduates
- How to survive your PhD
- 10 Things You Will Think During Your PhD
- The hectic life of a PhD student
- What I’ve learnt from my PhD so far
- Giving back during your PhD
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Positive PhD thinking!
- Communicating science
- PhD time management!
- Writing a Thesis Plan
- Things I wish I had known at the start of my PhD
- The value of PhD Assessments
- The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship
- Thinking Ahead: Transferable Skills
- Getting Constructive PhD Feedback
- The Final Year Panic
- Leaving Work to Start a PhD
- What Makes a PhD?
- How many hours does it take to get a PhD?
- Life after a PhD
- Travel During Your PhD
- Diving In
- How to Communicate Your PhD Research
- PhD: Doctor of Procrastination
- New Year, PhD?
- Finding Inspiration
- Surviving at conferences…
- Starting out
- Countdown timers
- PhDs in the insurance industry
- Research: role of problem solving
- Research: role of problem creating
- Videolectures.net
- Technical Presentations
- Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes
- Timely Communication
Travel
- Challenges Outside of PhD Life
- Taking a Break From Your PhD
- Travel During Your PhD
- Surviving at conferences…
- Funding For Travel
University Careers
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
- A Welcoming and Efficient Student Helpdesk
- The Value of Professional Services
- Keeping a record of achievements: why it’s important to remember the things you forgot
- Library interactions: An interview with Miggie Pickton
- Writing well at work: what I have learned from being a writer
- Higher Education and Twitter: Five things we have learned from Tweeting
- Coping with uncertainty at work
- 5 Ways A PhD Can Be Useful In A University Support Role
- Two Sides to the Same Coin
- Working with challenging or difficult students
- Using Reflective Writing in your Work
- Why I moved to the ‘Dark Side’ : Part two, leaving academia behind
- Going to the ‘Dark Side’ : Part one, thinking before moving away from academia
- Writing effective minutes
- Writing effective agendas
- Supporting research students as an administrator
- Supporting The Role Of Academics As An Administrator
- Keeping Your Energy Levels High During Busy Work Periods
- Support Staff Role In HE
- How far Is Too Far In An Interview?
- Progression in HE for Support Staff
- Qualities in support staff
- Higher Education Admin Support
- Surviving a Restructure
- Do I need a degree to work in Higher Education?
- Dealing with Change at Work
- What NOT to say in an interview
- How can a temp job boost your career prospects?
- The other parts of the interview – Part III
- Enterprise Week came and went
- How to survive a restructuring
- Full Economic Costing
- Bid-writing support
- Freshers Week
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part II
- Working in Higher Education: all you need to know – Part I
- The challenges of living and working abroad – Part II
- The challenges of living and working abroad- Part I
- What Can Universities Do to Help Students Out of the Recession?
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship for Year 6 Students – Part I
Useful Links
Visa Issues
- Japanese Working Visa and Health Insurance
- TEFL How To: Japanese Working Visa
- TEFL Country Profile: Spain
- Relocating Is Not Easy
Work/Life Balance
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- How I found out, how NOT to be an academic
- Rethinking leave – to stop or not to stop this holiday season
Working In Industry
- Is working in the Higher Education sector right for you?
- How understanding your strengths and weaknesses could propel your academic career to new heights.
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- How Academics are Helping Entrepreneurs Help Academics
Working Overseas
- UK academic considering a move to Australia?
- Considering an Academic Career in China Q&A Summary
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- Standing at the career crossroads
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- The challenges of living and working abroad – Part II
Workplace Issues
- A PhD brings valued skills to non-academic roles, but “beware of the boffin tag”
- Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
- Developing a Career in a Rural Area
- Working on a Science Park
- Standing at the career crossroads
- Graduate tips on securing that first job
- Think Negative! Reframing Positivethink…
- Warning: Shift work may be ageing!
- CVs: Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
- Bitter Sweet Rejection
- 5 ways to avoid age discrimination
- What are your weaknesses?
- Feeling the Sunday night blues
Writing
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- 12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
- You Don’t Use The Library
- You Have Office Envy
- You Think You Work
- Feeling Useful During Your PhD
- The PhD Application Process
- Starting a Writing Group
- The planning fallacy: Underestimating your task completion times
- Communicating science
- Time Management I: The Pomodoro Technique
- The Overactive Imagination of a Doctoral Researcher
- Why Study for a PhD?
- PhD Proposals
- PhD Dissertation
- Elements of Style
- How to Write Mathematics
Writing Tips
- Creating a Personal Touch in Student Communications Campaigns: The Dean’s List
- Everything I did wrong…
- A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
- The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
- Cruel Summer
- Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
- The day Ray Bradbury died
- On Prose Style: Simplicity Versus Sesquipedalianism
- “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer (Part 2)
- Tangles with the Self: What It Takes To Be a Writer
- Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
- A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
- Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
- Can Creative Writing be Taught?
- View from Calcutta: Indian universities and the UK
- After your PhD: Making Good Publication Decisions
- Voices in Fiction part 2
- After the Riots
- Let’s Talk: Shaping Your Thesis for Publication
- Hero Worship
- Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
- World building with Mind Mapping
