I’ve been meaning to write an update for this blog for about two months, but I’m worried. Just over a year ago, I started writing for the Post-PhD blog because…
Self-reflexivity as good academic practice
I am coming to the end of what may be my last term teaching. While I hope it isn’t the end of my higher-education teaching career, I want to take…
Quiet Rebellion
Increasingly I am finding it more and more difficult to stay quiet about my complicated and sometimes unhealthy relationship with academia. This started as a conscious quiet rebellion against the…
Confession: I Didn’t Prepare For my Viva!
[This post was prompted by the appearance of ‘How To Prepare for Your Viva’ posts popping up on Twitter, having friends who are in post-submission-pre-viva-limbo, and a post on this…
Preparing for Academic Job Interviews
I’ve been busy over the last few weeks (independent of the artificial busyness that has arisen from reading every-single-article about #Brexit I could find, as I’m sure most of the…
Falling at the Last Hurdle (Dealing with Post-Interview Rejection)
I recently had an interview for a job I really wanted, but didn’t get. It was a job that would have given me two years of time to dig into…
Job apps? Here’s some help.
Last Sunday, a friend and I got together to work on our job applications together. It was really encouraging and helpful to have another person there to bounce ideas off,…
(Academic) Jobseeker, know thyself
I want to pick up from Anna’s last post (hence the homage in my title!), and talk ‘knowing yourself’ as an academic job hunter. Academics are good at self-criticism (I…
Welcome to Job Season!
It appears that the start of the job season is finally here in my (sub-)discipline. I spent some time this week creating an excel spreadsheet to track my job applications…
Is ‘ECR’ fit for purpose in the Humanities?
Right now I’m writing reflexively about teaching. I enjoy teaching and I think I’m good at it. I miss being in the classroom. The point of my writing is an…