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Academic Jobs

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Writing a Successful PhD Application
• Keeping up to date
• Accept Me, Accept Me Not: Applying for PhDs

Arts And Humanities

• 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

• Laser Communication in Deep Space
• UARS Scenario
• LIPC
• Termed as Scintillation

Blogroll

• Ballad of Fallen Angels
• The Icarus Factor
• Academic Conferences: Small versus Big

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Interview with Dr Olivia Kirtley: Dismantling presumption

Cinema History

• 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

• How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers

Create Research Connections

• Competencies needed for collaboration

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Imagine that!

Economics

• AAIM 2009
• Economics and Computer Science
• Credit Crunch

ECR

• How your Academic Training Equips you for Success in a Wide Variety of Careers
• The Academic Art of Minimalism

Education

• 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

• Evolution in Vehicular Monitoring
• Mystery or Misery – Weather Devices

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

• 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

• Mystery or Misery – Weather Devices

Global Academic

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Pirates Wright and Walsh: Under the Book Detective’s Magnifying Glass
• The Hybrid

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

• Infographic: What do jobseekers really think?

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• What to Look For in an Employer
• Using TEFL to get where you want to be

Just Higher-Ed

• 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

• 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

• 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

LinkedIn

• Using The Big Three Social Networks to Recruit

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

• jobs.ac.uk launches free mobile jobs app for iPhone and Android

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

• Teaching American History with Visual Sources
• The experience of non-whites in Europe

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 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

• How my PhD years ‘jet packed’ my personal development in unexpected ways
• 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
• Building A Career-Search Network As A New Graduate
• Bitter Sweet Rejection
• Commuting my way to course leader

Physical Science

• Pre Eventual System
• Quantum Future

Post-PhD Life

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Let’s talk science: tips for sharing your research with colleagues and the public

Researcher Tips

• How can we help academic colleagues to stay healthy? Experience & ideas

Researchers

• 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

• Let’s talk science: tips for sharing your research with colleagues and the public

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

• 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

• 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

Twitter

• Using The Big Three Social Networks to Recruit

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

• Digital Marketing Careers Advice

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

• 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

• 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