Career Advice
Express complex ideas clearly and elegantly.
My new colleague and I are in the office, enthusiastically talking about how much we love to read. John, an undergraduate student we are supervising, overhears our conversation and asks, “Journals?” His expression reveals that he’s not kidding. So, instead of rolling my eyes or making a snarky...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/academic-writing-stylish-not-sloppy/
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Rehausser la qualité de rédaction chez les étudiants.
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Your research is important and deserves as much attention as possible. But if no one can understand what you're talking about, what's the point?
University Affairs magazine and Informed Opinions have teamed up to bring you a video series on how to communicate your research to a wide audien...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/engaging-audiences-episode-1-keep-accessible-concise/
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dissertation they’ll certainly thank their advisor and professors, so you can place the author in the context of a grad program.
Introduction, which often contains a summary of the chapters near the end. Helpful especially if you don’t think you are going to read the whole book or ne...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/reading-with-purpose/
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Celebrating research that finds academic writers have varied writing practices.
dissertation in a timely fashion, I adopted a daily writing practice because my schedule allowed it and it seemed to be the best (i.e., most efficient) way to meet my goal. But, is writing every day the only way to be a productive academic writer?
According to many sources, yes. But, according to...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/write-every-day-dont-successful-academic-writer/
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If graduate education is to undergo serious change, relying on the development of supervision abilities only through modeling or memory seems out of step.
dissertation, the highly competitive (academic and non-academic) job market and the increasing precarity of employment in the academy—it is no surprise that the design and role of graduate education has been called into question. While some might cheekily say
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/reimagining-graduate-student-supervision/
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A new book aims to understand why a small subset of professionals actively resists retirement.
dissertation work in quantitative methods, looking at data points, spending years doing that. I was just dying to ask the data points some questions, and so I did some qualitative training and eventually got some grant funding and started this set of projects, which was to explore retirement, what i...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/what-does-retirement-mean-when-your-job-is-your-life/
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I can be an effective scholar and leader only if I am healthy both physically and mentally.
dissertation with project management, fieldwork and finalizing a major grant contract.
By December 2018, I was burnt out and, in a careless moment, I had an accident and suffered a concussion. I only took a week off to heal from the physical trauma, because I was teaching during the winter term a...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/productivity-isnt-possible-without-well-being/
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Unlike specialists who possess depth in one area and generalists who have breadth but no depth, “versatilists” are the best of both worlds.
dissertation, they are unaware of it and unable to convey their skills to employers. Along with creating opportunities for students to learn these skills and vocabulary, educators need to provide opportunities for students to interact with the non-academic community, breaking down silos of differing...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/graduates-need-to-prioritize-versatility-when-entering-the-workforce/
From PhD to Life
dissertation and all the many other varied tasks I carried out in conjunction with my time in academia makes me an experienced researcher, writer, educator, whatever. I can draw on that "job experience" -- that's what it is, after all -- when crafting a resume. But I can't stop at that. To convince ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/resume-writing-tips-for-academics/
From PhD to Life
dissertation, after all)? People with these skills are in demand; there is no manager who wouldn’t want more people like this on their team. You have the skills to succeed outside academia.
Given the ratio of PhDs produced annually to the available tenure-track jobs, it’s not enough ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-andrew-miller/
From PhD to Life
Jennifer Polk chats with Kelly J. Baker about juggling her writing career with family life.
dissertation and my teaching experience would help me get a tenure-track job. What I didn’t anticipate was the impact of the Great Recession on universities and colleges. I was unlucky enough to graduate in 2008 right before the job market bottomed out. There was only one job posting that I could ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-kelly-j-baker/
From PhD to Life
dissertation. But I speak with graduate students and PhDs who work as sessionals or adjuncts on an almost daily basis. And, I was scheduled to travel to Prince George later today, to take part in a conference for graduate students at UNBC. That two-day event is now cancelled. I'm following the strik...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/striking-for-a-better-now-and-a-better-future/
From PhD to Life
dissertation research at a conference, so I’m keeping my hand in the research game a little bit.
What kind of tasks do you do on a daily and weekly basis?
Teaching is my primary job, so I’m on campus five days a week and in my classroom all day. I teach five out of seven p...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-tom-westerman/
From PhD to Life
dissertation and am now trying to schedule to oral defence. I’m planning to defend my PhD in early September. I’m also pregnant and excited to become a mom in late September.
During my maternity leave, I plan to conduct some academic activities such as trying to put together an article for a ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-update-kimberley-yates-veronica-rubio-vega-and-rachel-mueller-lust/
From PhD to Life
dissertation for five years that less than a handful of people actually read in the end.
I’ve also come to enjoy copywriting a lot, which is very different from academic writing but very challenging in itself. Travelling to clients and teaching workshops is something I also like. I get to see w...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-pablo-dominguez-andersen/
From PhD to Life
dissertation? Nope. But I did all those things, and so I tell myself that all the surprises that come my way now are nothing in comparison to what I and anyone else who has been honed in the crucible of a doctoral project have done already.
Even though I may not have technical training in many of...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-lindy-ledohowski/
From PhD to Life
dissertation topic) to future job prospects. After working as a teaching assistant and volunteering as a peer mentor, I realized I wanted to help other students, like myself, figure out their career pathways. I had struggled to find adequate resources as a graduate student to assist me in making my ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-rebecca-dirnfield-career-consultant/
From PhD to Life
dissertation, there's often flexibility in what and how to teach, whether and how to publish, if and how to engage as a subject expert in the wider world, and how to contribute to the academic community -- by sitting on committees, organizing conferences, and doing a whole host of other tasks, large...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/what-is-a-phd-anyway/
From PhD to Life
dissertation, I was hired as a program officer at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a non-governmental organization in New York that promotes constructive engagement between the two countries. As a program officer, my primary job was to co-direct the committee’s
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-maura-elizabeth-cunningham/
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