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What you need to know before you get that first lectureship position

Jenson Lim - October 10, 2018

[NB: the author is a lecturer at a Scottish university in the field of biological sciences and writes from that perspective]  So, this is it – after several years of…

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Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE

Aisling Carey - January 25, 2018

Teaching in Higher Education was a bit of an accidental/slightly detoured pathway for me. However, I can confidently say this ‘accident’, or detour, of working in HE was a unique…

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The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil

Luana Chiquetto - September 14, 2017

I finished my PhD in 2016. It was the longest 4 years of my life but at the same time, the years passed in a blink of an eye. It…

Securing That Academic Job

Folashade Adeyemo - March 7, 2016

Before I got my teaching job, I had made a conscious effort to get published and secure internships at some very prominent places. For teaching posts, I made a few…

Do I stay or do I go? leaving academia post-PhD.

Emily Garside - October 21, 2015

I’ll let you all into a secret, as much as I am passionate about my PhD as something I wanted and needed to write, I’m not that excited about academic…

Life after a PhD

Emma Monaghan - July 23, 2015

Hi, I’m Emma and I’m a PhD survivor! It’s crazy to think that I submitted my PhD thesis nearly 10 months ago now. Let me take you through my post-PhD…

Encounter at Farpoint: An Interview with an Old Friend

Jenny Walklate - July 26, 2013

As I have written before, there are people whom I came to know during the course of my PhD who left a lasting impression on me. I thought it would…

The PhD Student – Supervisor Relationship

Heather Doran - October 6, 2011

The relationship between a PhD student and their supervisor(s) often exists in a delicate balance… the fundamentals of this relationship are illustrated beautifully in the PhD comics, especially this one –http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1439 But…

Integrating Research and Teaching

Nicola Abram - July 11, 2011

I have a confession: as an undergraduate, I assumed that lecturers spent their entire lives poised at their desks, module descriptions in hand, waiting for us students to traipse into…

End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!

Catherine Armstrong - May 16, 2011

It’s coming up to the end of my fourth year working in the history department at MMU and I can’t believe where the time has gone! They say that ‘time…

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