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  • How to create a professional persona for academic consultancy
  • What do you want to be when you grow up?
  • The importance of language skill certificate in CV (extra points!)
  • Interview with Dr Olivia Kirtley: Dismantling presumption
  • History? Not without language!
  • How to write in a language that is not your own
  • 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
  • Starting blogging
  • Writing through a fear of writing – featuring 3 most helpful steps.
  • 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)

    • October

    September

    August

  • Brexit and the UK researcher: an uncertain path
  • Histories of cinema: Spoilers alert! The first audiences of Psycho (1960)
  • The Value of Professional Services
  • Task management and the art of the to do list
  • 5 LinkedIn tips for early career researchers
  • Claimed from Stationers’ Hall
  • 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)
  • Grant-Writing – the Realities of Postdoc Research!
  • Me and Sacheen – in the social media spotlight
  • An Update: Publications and Presentations
  • Quiet Rebellion
  • Ten steps to get started on Twitter as an academic: part 2
  • Ten steps to get started on Twitter as an academic: part 1
  • On being “overqualified” on the job market
  • Interdisciplinary and international research: a local case
  • Being a Music Librarian: Never a Typical Day
  • Lessons Learnt from my PhD (So Far)…
  • Cracking the code for effective research communication
  • 10 ways consultancy differs to research

    • July

    June

  • Preparing for Academic Job Interviews
  • Dispatches from 9 to 5 or post-PhD myth busting
  • 5 reasons why I read scientific blog posts (or why to blog your science!)
  • Norway series. How to fight off a barbarian invasion!
  • Where next for the career breaks survey?
  • The beautiful game, by the greatest artists in Europe presented by the past masters
  • Informational interviews in the post-PhD job search
  • Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Choosing a supervisor
  • What’s your plan?
  • PhD Qualification Vs. Personal Identity: Part One
  • Norway series. Collaboration: a (sixth-century) barbarian invasion?
  • A preview of the career break landscape
  • Follow-up to postgraduate options hangout – Getting references
  • How do you find conferences to attend? Some useful sources
  • Goodbye yellow brick road! Putting the method into teaching research methodology

    • May

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  • What do you need to work freelance? 8 key ingredients!
  • Jobseeker, know thyself
  • 7 ways to make the first move when strengthening your network
  • Writing made social: you don’t have to write alone
  • Life Sciences – Writers Wanted
  • Mentoring and post-PhD transitions
  • Brexit: the multifaceted dimension of its demographic aspect
  • Twitter for academics – my first ever Twitter chat
  • Challenges Outside of PhD Life
  • 12 Things Star Wars Got Wrong About Your PhD!
  • The path to research independence : four tips
  • Securing That Academic Job
  • See our collection of Twitter hashtags for researchers – and add to it
  • Post-PhD job hunt and recruitment agencies
  • Welcome to Job Season!
  • 5 tips for returning to work after a career break
  • How to be an academic rockstar: 5 amazing benefits of collaboration
  • Journal clubs: an interesting tradition

    • February

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  • On serial dating and job interviewing
  • Publishing Costs HOW Much?!
  • Trying to find my voice
  • Writing about my research interest on expressive writing
  • 40% Researcher? Yes, Indeed!
  • You Are A Fraud
  • From A to B via a rather scenic route
  • Knitting, Lunacy Laws and the hunt for Patient Publications: Doing a PhD in the Medical Humanities
  • Interprofessional education – considering the research agenda
  • You Think You Work
  • New Year’s Resolutions for PhD Success
  • Library interactions: An interview with Miggie Pickton
  • The Loch Ness monster, the tooth fairy and work-life balance: Myths we need to get over!
  • Harnessing the power of research for teachers and teacher educators
  • What to do with all that passion?
  • Writing well at work: what I have learned from being a writer
  • Plain speaking and clear understanding: 5 tips for networking face to face
  • What does it take to be a bio-scientist? A personal opinion.
  • Resilience, not resolutions
  • Norway series part II: government policy for the humanities
  • Lessons in herstory: Mary Moffat, explorer of the Kalahari

    • 2015

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  • Rethinking industry dynamics: what’s your velocity regime?
  • Preparing A Cultural Exposition
  • Scientific Outreach: So Many Reasons to Bother
  • MOOC module “How to Survive your PhD” : my reflections at the end
  • The lady archer: from invalidism to the New Woman
  • My First Conference as a PhD Student
  • How to write instructions for others in 9 steps
  • Lessons from the farm: coping with uncertainty in academic life
  • Struggling to Put Pen to Paper
  • Academic Bureaucracy Is Discouraging
  • Top 5 Hashtags for Academic Writing: just in time for #acwrimo!
  • Higher Education and Twitter: Five things we have learned from Tweeting
  • Strengthening research through collaborative partnership
  • Four weeks and a deadline: curiosity, confusion, boredom and love in #survivephd15
  • Settling into PhD Life
  • My Research Strategies
  • Interview with Dr Tim Rudd of Livelab: tips on collaborating with third and public sector organisations
  • Why I have chosen to pursue evolutionary psychology
  • University rankings and research collaboration: interview with Phil Baty
  • My 5 Lessons from the PhD
  • MOOC for Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
  • Interview with the British Psychological Society President Jamie Hacker Hughes

    • October

  • Data-publishing for Better Science
  • Spanish Studies
  • These Wheels Keep On Turning……..
  • Thinking Outside of Your Own Field
  • 5 things to do while job searching
  • Self-doubt, perfectionism and common insecurities during research work
  • Arts and/ or Sciences: how to solve the riddle of the sphinx
  • ‘Upgrading’ to a PhD
  • Coping with uncertainty at work
  • Building and promoting research partnership: interview with Scott Furtwengler
  • Using Technology To Shape Language Teaching
  • In focus: creating collaborative partnerships for international development
  • Everything I did wrong…
  • Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.
  • Researchers are not islands: insights on collaboration
  • Digital identity healthcheck for academics
  • Quick Tips For Teachers
  • At the archives: what’s that scrawl? Tips on reading historical documents
  • Fear and curiosity during your doctorate: weeks 6 & 7 of How to Survive your PhD.
  • Improving Your Spanish Program: Literature
  • Preparing to Start your PhD Journey
  • Biocatalysis: Harnessing the Power of the Enzymes
  • Finally Graduating!
  • Digital Skills: What Are They And How Are Yours?
  • The God Of Languages: The Specialized Native Teacher
  • Academic writing, Frustration and Loneliness: weeks 4 and 5 of How to survive your PhD

    • September

  • How do you measure your social media success? Let’s keep it simple.
  • Technology Tips For Teachers: Projectors And Mobiles In The Class
  • Saying No (Nicely)
  • Introducing Vanessa Lao, Strategic Partnerships Manager at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia
  • A Telegram from the Unconscious: Martin Amis on Creativity and Style
  • Working Class academics in and outside the PhD
  • Improving Your Spanish Language Program: Equatorial Guinea
  • 10 Things you might encounter, when you consult rare documents in an archive
  • The Spanish Titles Of University Expert / Specialist
  • “How to survive your PhD” weeks 2 & 3: growing in confidence
  • Post-PhD comedown
  • Open and digital academics: Twitter hashtags to watch or use
  • Interview With The Fruit Fly Expert
  • Taking part in a MOOC “How to Survive Your PhD” : Getting started.
  • The Importance of a PhD Protocol
  • A scholarly corner of Twitter: 12 broad academic Twitter hashtags
  • 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

    • August

  • A collaborative working tool called Slack: thoughts on using it
  • 5 Common Regrets of University Graduates
  • Teaching English in England
  • Tweet with a hashtag: 13 tags for new academics!
  • Ribo-T: the protein factory of the future
  • 9-5 vs PhD Life
  • Two Sides to the Same Coin
  • The Value Of Lurking
  • It Started with a Tweet…
  • Boogie-Woogie Feng Shui
  • Feeling Useful During Your PhD
  • Publish or Perish Post-PhD?
  • Turning forty: the age of reason?
  • How do you run a crowdfunding campaign? 12 Useful tips! (Part 2)
  • Health check your digital identity
  • Let them in: video opens the doors of communication.
  • Writing a Successful PhD Application
  • How do you run a crowdfunding campaign? 12 useful tips! (Part 1)
  • Medical writing – getting to the hard facts
  • Working with challenging or difficult students
  • The negative impact of not teaching about “impact”
  • The negative impact of not teaching about “impact”
  • The Next Big Thing
  • Why choose to digitise? 7 motivations to balance if you’re collaborating.

    • July

  • 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
  • Conflicts of interest: pedagogy, professional practice and research
  • Considering crowdsourcing in academia: tips on offer
  • Impact, Media and Digital Scholarship
  • Voices of Authority
  • Writing styles: a thorny issue
  • Chemistry: let’s make the public love it!
  • Life after a PhD
  • Building research partnerships & promoting research: An Interview with Dr. Carlos García Aparicio
  • Spider in the Web
  • The PhD Application Process
  • Starting a Writing Group
  • Everyone’s digitizing: here is one eminent new example!
  • Tools for using Twitter: 5 things they might help with
  • Lady Librarian becomes Revalidated Fellow
  • Conference report: 50th Anniversary International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo 2015
  • Managing Your Research Material with Evernote
  • My Shelfie! A real-life research workspace
  • Where to Study for your PhD?
  • The art of planning in science
  • Fishing in a smaller pond: looking for jobs online
  • Week 1 as a PhD Student
  • Using Reflective Writing in your Work
  • Why I moved to the ‘Dark Side’ : Part two, leaving academia behind

    • June

  • Money Money Money
  • Infographic feature: Can I copy it? Copyright consciousness!
  • Movements of Fire and Shadow
  • Cruel Summer
  • Developing A Career In Outdoor Activities
  • Academics, Are You Linked In?
  • 3 Education Startups for ELT Teachers
  • The planning fallacy: Underestimating your task completion times
  • The language of life
  • Plato’s Stepchildren
  • How Early Career Researchers Can Make A Case To Be A Digital Academic cont’d
  • Going to the ‘Dark Side’ : Part one, thinking before moving away from academia
  • Developing a Career in a Rural Area
  • Creative Writing Studies: The Rise of a New Discipline
  • The Menagerie, Part II
  • How Early Career Researchers Can Make A Case To Be A Digital Academic
  • Imposter Syndrome and how to (begin to) overcome it
  • A Quick Hello & What’s To Come.
  • Rewards of a role writing research funding bids. An interview with Lachlan Smith
  • Working on a Science Park
  • Writing effective minutes
  • The day Ray Bradbury died
  • Why do academics blog?
  • Contracts, Costings, Collaboration and the Juggling Act as Research Administrator. An interview with Mary Caspillo-Brewer
  • Standing at the career crossroads
  • Learning about the role of a research manager. An interview with Alex Challis

    • May

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  • 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
  • Think Negative! Reframing Positivethink…
  • Steps in science communication
  • Reviewing
  • New Year, new experiences? Teaching in the wake of Charlie Hebdo
  • Time-management strategies for job-hunters
  • A social scientist’s adventures in the “Land of Techno”. A story of trepidation, #collaboration & self-education.
  • 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
  • Supporting The Role Of Academics As An Administrator
  • Keeping Your Energy Levels High During Busy Work Periods
  • “The computer is not working”: being let down by technology
  • Being Online
  • New Year’s Resolutions?
  • Motivation, motivation, motivation!

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    2013

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  • Reflective Writing about Libraries Fostering Creativity
  • 5 things you should do to get the most out of your internship
  • Finishing that first postdoc: a critical moment
  • Impact, inspiration and interdisciplinarity: interview with Charlotte Mathieson
  • Volunteering: for love not money
  • Returning to Science: on Ada Lovelace day
  • To ink or not to ink, that is the question!
  • Giving back during your PhD
  • No, square pegs don’t fit into round holes: Choose a different shaped hole rather than ‘reshape your edges’.
  • Exploding Grandmothers and Other First Impressions
  • Returning to the job market
  • A Fine Frenzy Rolling: Two Parts to the Creative Process
  • Positive PhD thinking!
  • Free report: recruitment effectiveness for universities 2013
  • 20 reasons why every EFL learner should have an iPad
  • Communicating science
  • LinkedIn: The right way to connect
  • How to be a good English teacher: Advice from a Japanese learner of English

    • September

  • Ding Dong The Booker Prize is Dead
  • Most of what you say doesn’t count….
  • Augmented reality for university recruitment?
  • PhD time management!
  • Making Changes
  • Clinical Leadership in the NHS : An interview with Bernie Divall
  • Pirates Wright and Walsh: Under the Book Detective’s Magnifying Glass
  • When should I include interests on a CV?
  • Being Critical, Being Creative: What does Shakespeare mean to an Indian Teenager?
  • Can Creative Writing be Taught?
  • Turnabout Intruder
  • Money, Papers, and People: An interview with Ian Hancox and Luke Rochford
  • Are we any good at career planning?
  • Kickstarting your own ELT publication
  • Likability – is it the X Factor at interview?
  • My Top Ten Tips for doing a PHD
  • The case of genetic lottery: Why no one is better than anyone else
  • My job search is bad enough – Get off my back!
  • What are your weaknesses?
  • Going Beyond the Comfort Zone
  • Interview Question: Tell me about yourself
  • Creative Writing in the Academy
  • Leaving A Job After A Few Weeks
  • The 4 guiding principles of success
  • The case of the Mirror Neurons that shaped our civilization

    • August

    July

    June

    May

  • Did I mention it also travels in time?
  • 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?
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Unemployment
  • Things not to add to your CV
  • Always known what you wanted to do when you grew up?
  • Infographic: What do jobseekers really think?
  • 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
  • Progression in HE for Support Staff
  • Recruitment networking event, Wednesday 17th July 2013
  • Bagpipes in the LIBRARY?
  • Sending subtle hints that you want a new job
  • [Free report] jobs.ac.uk recruitment trends survey results
  • How to make a CV stand out?
  • Fantastic free websites for learners of English
  • Jenny Walklate, Job Snob for Hire
  • Job hunting. Career change. Kelly Clarkson.
  • CV or Resume – which should you go for?

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