Career advice

Tips and resources for building a successful academic career and how to enhance your reputation or move into industry.

By Laura.Duckett, 30 June, 2025
Academic blogging can open doors to collaboration and career growth. Discover its benefits, and learn how to build a culture that supports it.
Reading time
4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 25 June, 2025
The secret to establishing a career in academia is focus and deliberate choices, whether the path is into research, teaching or impact. Here, Robert MacIntosh explains why persistence and planning are more important than ever
By Laura.Duckett, 6 June, 2025
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
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
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
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
Reading time
5minutes
By kiera.obrien, 30 April, 2025
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
Reading time
5minutes