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Written by Ellie Mackin

Ellie is a Teaching Fellow in Ancient History at the University of Leicester. Her current research focuses on ‘embeddedness’ in early Greek religion. Ellie completed her BA(Hons) and MA at Monash University, in Australia, before moving to the UK for her PhD at King's College London (2015).

An Update (or, I’ve been away because…)

February 16, 2017 by Ellie Mackin

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

December 1, 2016 by Ellie Mackin

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

August 11, 2016 by Ellie Mackin

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!

July 4, 2016 by Ellie Mackin

[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

June 30, 2016 by Ellie Mackin

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)

May 8, 2016 by Ellie Mackin

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.

April 26, 2016 by Ellie Mackin

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

April 8, 2016 by Ellie Mackin

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!

March 4, 2016 by Ellie Mackin

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?

February 25, 2016 by Ellie Mackin

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…

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