Great jobs for bright people
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
