Academic career advice

Tips and resources to help you build a successful career in academia. From skills development during your PhD to preparing for a role in university administration, all academic career steps are covered. Here, you will find advice on promoting your work, growing your professional reputation and developing collegiate networks to support your academic career progression - or to help you move into industry.

By Laura.Duckett, 6 June, 2025

How I use social media as a research tool

An academic conducting research on her laptop
Drawing from her autoethnographic experiences, Bhawana Shrestha discusses how she uses social media platforms to deepen collaboration, enrich methodology and widen participation in research
By Laura.Duckett, 26 May, 2025

Teaching your first course? Follow these steps

Students and a teacher having a discussion in the classroom
Just landed your first adjunct teaching role and don’t know where to start? Here’s how to make the most of your strengths, design a clear syllabus and deliver engaging, manageable sessions
By Eliza.Compton, 15 May, 2025

Peer review as a collegial approach to educator development

Peer review and career developing in university teaching
Expert support, structured reflection and near-peer dialogue can replace compliance and evaluation as a way to improve teaching practice. This practical framework aims to turn conversation into action
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 7 May, 2025

A survival guide for academic department leaders

Staff meeting
Administrators walk a line between support for faculty and accountability for performance, writes Saleem H. Ali. Here, he offers six tips for building good governance and legacy
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5minutes
By kiera.obrien, 30 April, 2025

Can we use GenAI to subvert the neoliberal university?

A phone screen with several different GenAI apps displayed
Generative AI can be a tool of resistance against the corporatisation of higher education – or it can be just another distraction to make us ‘zombies in the loop’ of the system. Here is how we can choose the former
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 30 April, 2025

Supporting pathways for nurses into clinical research

Nurse entering information into computer
Organisational support for clinician researchers is an effective way to ensure that healthcare research is translated into clinical practice. Here’s how a partnership between an Australian university and a local health service aims to amplify impact
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4minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 11 April, 2025

Preparing for a research-active career during your PhD

Spinning plates
How can you balance the demands of your PhD thesis with publishing other work to support your academic career goals? This article offers practical strategies for managing both
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4minutes
Academic career advice