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Showing posts with label career management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label career management. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2022

How to get hired in academia

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 I've recently left my job as Head of School to become a lecturer in AI and software engineering. After nearly ten years as Head, I have...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Finding an academic job

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Finding a job for any profession is difficult, but finding a job in academia can be ridiculously hard. Since I finished my PhD ten years a...
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Work-Life Balance

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A video of a panel session of two young(ish) professors, talking about work-life balance. I used to work in the same lab as Corey Bradshaw, ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

On the importance of a good supervisor

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One day, a fox was walking through the forest when he met a rabbit sitting outside a rabbit hole reading a pile of papers. "What are yo...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Rules for success

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Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame has come up with a list of ten rules for success . Surprisingly enough, I think that most of them apply to...
Thursday, March 7, 2013

On Being a Postdoc 2: Postdoc survival

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One of my favourite quotes from the television series Babylon 5 is: "You do not make history, you can only hope to survive it". ...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

What I've learned so far about management

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I'm almost three months into my new position, a position that involves managing several lecturers. So, what have I learned about managem...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

On Being a Post-doc

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After completing a PhD, most people who wish to stay in academia end up doing one or more post-doctoral positions. Experience as a post-doc ...