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Tag Archives: career building
Supervisor and Career Advisor?
A recent (very American) article in The Chronicle Of Higher Education struck an initial chord with me: To: Professors; Re: Your Advisees (September 28, 2011, Karen Kelsky). Karen Kelsky runs an ‘academic-career consulting business’ to help students, basically, get jobs … Read More
Tagged: career building, creative, human contact, publishing, writing
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Research and Teaching: the Second Stretch
From amongst a wide circle of friends and colleagues who are both research active and teaching-active – to coin a new phrase – I’d say it’s extremely important to acknowledge that flexibility is both a personal and professional good. A friend who was awarded her doctorate in 2006 found a permanent teaching post within twelve months of completing. Her lectureship was not in History which was her “home” discipline if you like but in Criminology – she was able to develop a subsidiary interest into one which she could use as a foundation for her career. Read More
Research and Teaching: the Stretch
In this post I want to talk about the relationship between your research and your teaching.
Be flexible and be open to the opportunities around you – don’t shy away because you think it’s not what you trained to do. Let your research self breathe and your teaching self too – they need to not be frozen into one place and one time in an infinite universe. Read More
Running your own live literature night – part one
Part one of a guide to planning your own live literature night. Read More
Let’s Talk: Meeting Adrian Holliday
Professor Adrian Holliday is the Head of the Graduate School at Canterbury Christ Church University and also Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of English and Language Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University. It is an enormous pleasure to welcome him to this blog.
A wider view of Adrian’s teaching, research and publication profile can be found on his homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/adrianholliday42/
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