Alumni relations typically involves a wide-range of marketing and communication activities. This often includes networking events, newsletters, annual magazines, fostering online communities, and day-to-day engagement through usual office contact channels.…
Academic articles and non-academic inspiration
Academic articles can be inspired from some very non-academic places and sometimes inspiration can come from the strangest things… A little while ago, I wrote an academic paper examining the…
Communication, Communication, Communication
Our correspondent, Christopher Ferguson asks: What role does Higher Education have to play in the current political climate? And he shares his ideas in answer to that question. If I…
How to write in a language that is not your own
I believe that everyone in academia, especially those who are not English native speakers, has to, once in a while, write in a language that is not their mother tongue…
Writing through a fear of writing – featuring 3 most helpful steps.
Wanting to write A few months ago, the fiercely brilliant writer Cory Taylor died. In the time before the cancer became fiercer than her, she wrote ‘Dying: A Memoir’…
Me and Sacheen – in the social media spotlight
This guest blogpost is from Phil Ward, winner of the ARMA award for Technological Innovation and Application. He is author of Research Fundermentals and the person behind @frootle. His writing is both informative and entertaining…
Don’t get mad, get better: A story of receiving peer review comments
No matter what stage of research or academia you are at in your career, getting published is a tough process. In fact, a majority of time, we as researchers are…
How to draft a research grant application
Most of my business involves helping academics to write better research grant applications. Prospects are good because most academics, when they try to write a grant application, write completely the wrong kind of document to solve the main problem that every grant application has to solve. This post explains…
Writing about my research interest on expressive writing
In such a demanding and precarious society that we live in, it is not surprising to find that many of us are seeking for ways to enhance our mental health…
How to write instructions for others in 9 steps
I’ve been taking part in the How to Survive your PhD MOOC which is now in its final stages: We are now all peer marking each others’ assignments. The course is…