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Managing Your Research Material with Evernote

jobs.ac.uk careers - July 10, 2015

Back in the olden days, i.e. 10 years ago, gathering research material meant photocopying endless journal articles and storing them in lever-arch files. For those of us who view admin…

The Future of Interdisciplinarity with Professor Brian Cox

Alison Osborne - May 27, 2015

Last week I attended a distinguished lecture as part of the University of Warwick’s 50th Anniversary celebrations. Professor Brian Cox and Dr Michael Scott discussed the future for Arts-Science collaboration,…

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How To Prevent Social Media Overload

jobs.ac.uk careers - May 15, 2015

Top Time-Saving Tools To help you identify how you can use digital tools to enhance your research and career to give you a competitive advantage, jobs.ac.uk held a live 60-minute…

A Guide To Developing Your Online Presence.

Sally Burr - May 7, 2015

The internet is ‘where humanity is doing its stuff’ according to David White, Head of Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Arts who presented Learning and Teaching in the…

Going digital: How to communicate and showcase your skills

Emma Monaghan - March 25, 2015

I had the pleasure of attending a thought-provoking workshop hosted by jobs.ac.uk and Piirus on the topic of being a digital academic at the University of Warwick. One of the speakers was…

Making Your Mark: Academia, Social Media and Employability

Libby Watson - March 24, 2015

The title of this blog has been lifted from an informative, candid and thought-provoking talk delivered by Dr Nadine Muller, Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores…

Making the most of conferences

Lily Canter - November 11, 2014

Each year academics make a plea to their head of department or head of research for funding to attend conferences at home or abroad. These can be events run by…

Co-authoring with students

Lily Canter - June 10, 2014

Each year I supervise and mark dozens of undergraduate dissertations of varying quality and every once in a while a student comes up with a gem. Where I currently work…

Beware the predatory publisher

Lily Canter - April 1, 2014

Academic journals are becoming big business leading to the rise of the ‘predatory’ publisher. One of the unfortunate side effects of the open access journal drive is that it has…

Breaking the publishing barrier

Lily Canter - January 31, 2014

As a PhD student my main focus was on getting the damn thing finished – as quickly as possible as far as I was concerned. But whilst doing my fieldwork…

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