What you need to know before you get that first lectureship position
Jenson Lim -
[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…
Category > Teaching
Every day is a school day: 3 things I learned when working in HE
Aisling Carey -
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…
The pros and cons of doing a PhD in Brazil
Luana Chiquetto -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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…
