|
Showing 1 - 9 of
9 matches in All Departments
Your survival guide for graduate school. Welcome to the university,
where the Academic Hunger Games, fueled by precarious employment
conditions, is the new reality: a perpetual jostle for short-term
contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to
tell you that life doesn't have to be so grim. A veteran of the
university gig economy, Mewburn-aka The Thesis Whisperer-is
perfectly placed to reflect on her experience and offer a wealth of
practical strategies to survive and thrive. In Becoming an
Academic, Mewburn, who has spent over a decade helping PhD students
succeed in graduate school, deftly navigates the world of the
working academic. Offering tips and tricks for survival, she
touches on everything from thesis and article writing and keeping
motivation alive to time management, research strategies, mastering
new technologies, applying for promotion, dealing with sexism in
the workplace, polishing grant applications, and deciding what to
wear to give a keynote address. These essays are funny, irreverent,
and spot on; Mewburn peppers her writing with wit and wisdom that
speaks to graduate students. Constructive, inclusive, hands-on, and
gloves-off, this book is a survival manual for aspiring and
practicing academics, as well as for students who are considering
whether to stay in academia. A field guide to living in the
academic trenches without losing your mind (or your heart),
Becoming an Academic confirms that-no matter what your experience
is in academia-you are not alone.
The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and
practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers.
Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get
overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and
realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of
trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket
guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature.
Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules
of the game -- the things you need to know but usually aren't told
by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development
units, or supervisors -- and will address a practical topic that is
key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral
students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone
looking to launch or maintain their career in academia. The world
of the academic researcher is changing; it used to be enough to
work hard, do your research and get your results published. No so
these days. Universities now expect researchers to share their work
with the world, as widely as possible. 'Publish or perish' has been
replaced by a new mantra, and the pressure is on. In this
insightful book, Inger Mewburn and Simon Clews look at some of the
most common presentation scenarios that researchers will face when
talking about their work. Starting in academia with the deceptively
simple art of writing a good email and working through lectures,
conference presentations and lightning talks, the book then moves
'off campus' and explores talking to the media, making elevator
pitches, and creating an effective digital presence on social
media. Offering detailed looks at nineteen different presentation
formats, Mewburn and Clews tap into their vast experience in the
field to analyse the challenges and opportunities aligned with each
case study and to map out the route to success. With a lightness of
touch and an often humorous approach, Be Visible Or Vanish: Engage,
Influence, and Ensure Your Research Has Impact will show you what
it takes to achieve that holy grail of modern academia... impact.
This text will be invaluable for students, academics and
researchers hoping to effectively communicate complex information
in a way that can be understood and appreciated by their peers,
colleagues and the wider world.
Are you confused by the feedback you get from your academic
teachers and mentors? This clear and accessible guide to decoding
academic feedback will help you interpret what your lecturer or
research supervisor is really trying to tell you about your
writing-and show you how to fix it. It will help you master a range
of techniques and strategies to take your writing to the next level
and along the way you'll learn why academic text looks the way it
does, and how to produce that 'authoritative scholarly voice' that
everyone talks about. This book is an easy-to-use resource for
postgraduate students and researchers in all disciplines, and even
professional academics, to diagnose their writing issues and find
ways to fix them. This book would also be a valuable text for
academic writing courses and writing groups, such as those offered
in doctoral and Master's by research degree programmes. 'Whether
they have writing problems or not, every academic writer will want
this handy compendium of effective strategies and sound
explanations on their book shelf-it's a must-have.' Pat Thomson,
Professor of Education, University of Nottingham, UK
The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and
practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers.
Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get
overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and
realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of
trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket
guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature.
Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules
of the game -- the things you need to know but usually aren't told
by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development
units, or supervisors -- and will address a practical topic that is
key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral
students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone
looking to launch or maintain their career in academia. The world
of the academic researcher is changing; it used to be enough to
work hard, do your research and get your results published. No so
these days. Universities now expect researchers to share their work
with the world, as widely as possible. 'Publish or perish' has been
replaced by a new mantra, and the pressure is on. In this
insightful book, Inger Mewburn and Simon Clews look at some of the
most common presentation scenarios that researchers will face when
talking about their work. Starting in academia with the deceptively
simple art of writing a good email and working through lectures,
conference presentations and lightning talks, the book then moves
'off campus' and explores talking to the media, making elevator
pitches, and creating an effective digital presence on social
media. Offering detailed looks at nineteen different presentation
formats, Mewburn and Clews tap into their vast experience in the
field to analyse the challenges and opportunities aligned with each
case study and to map out the route to success. With a lightness of
touch and an often humorous approach, Be Visible Or Vanish: Engage,
Influence, and Ensure Your Research Has Impact will show you what
it takes to achieve that holy grail of modern academia... impact.
This text will be invaluable for students, academics and
researchers hoping to effectively communicate complex information
in a way that can be understood and appreciated by their peers,
colleagues and the wider world.
Each contributor to this book was given the remit: "If you could go
back in time to talk with yourself when you began your studies,
what advice would you give?" Hindsight is such a bonus, especially,
when vying for your doctorate or postgraduate degree. Postgraduate
Study in Australia: Surviving and Succeeding addresses this with
advice from postgraduate students and recent graduates that will
assure that you are not alone in your endeavors. This project
follows similar editions that focus on Aotearoa/New Zealand, South
Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and is currently
being replicated in Scandinavia. This down-to-earth anthology
shares personal stories from postgraduate students and recent
graduates, employing a practical approach and focusing on the
context of postgraduate studies in Australia. This first-person
approach to research about postgraduate study helps curate the
current understanding, with critical reflections adding to our
collective knowledge. Both prospective and current postgraduate
students will find this collection insightful.
Each contributor to this book was given the remit: "If you could go
back in time to talk with yourself when you began your studies,
what advice would you give?" Hindsight is such a bonus, especially,
when vying for your doctorate or postgraduate degree. Postgraduate
Study in Australia: Surviving and Succeeding addresses this with
advice from postgraduate students and recent graduates that will
assure that you are not alone in your endeavors. This project
follows similar editions that focus on Aotearoa/New Zealand, South
Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and is currently
being replicated in Scandinavia. This down-to-earth anthology
shares personal stories from postgraduate students and recent
graduates, employing a practical approach and focusing on the
context of postgraduate studies in Australia. This first-person
approach to research about postgraduate study helps curate the
current understanding, with critical reflections adding to our
collective knowledge. Both prospective and current postgraduate
students will find this collection insightful.
Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has
increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading
scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and
drawbacks of working in the contemporary university, using digital
technologies. Contributors take a critical perspective in
identifying the implications of digitisation for the future of
higher education, academic publishing protocols and platforms and
academic employment conditions, the ways in which academics engage
in their everyday work and as public scholars and relationships
with students and other academics. The book includes accounts of
using digital media and technologies as part of academic practice
across teaching, research administration and scholarship
endeavours, as well as theoretical perspectives. The contributors
span the spectrum of early to established career academics and are
based in education, research administration, sociology, digital
humanities, media and communication.
Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has
increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading
scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and
drawbacks of working in the contemporary university, using digital
technologies. Contributors take a critical perspective in
identifying the implications of digitisation for the future of
higher education, academic publishing protocols and platforms and
academic employment conditions, the ways in which academics engage
in their everyday work and as public scholars and relationships
with students and other academics. The book includes accounts of
using digital media and technologies as part of academic practice
across teaching, research administration and scholarship
endeavours, as well as theoretical perspectives. The contributors
span the spectrum of early to established career academics and are
based in education, research administration, sociology, digital
humanities, media and communication.
|
|