Are you going to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences this year? Or maybe a large disciplinary conference? Are you worried about your conference presentation? Or excited about meeting up with colleagues you don’t see in person very often? Is this your first time? Are you unsure about what it’ll be like? What [...]
Life is like a video game
Posted on May 17, 2013 by 1 Comment
Caveat: I am not a gamer but friend who are have confirmed that what I’m going to say here makes sense. One of my recent posts for the Careers Cafe at University Affairs compared life to a video game. Video game developers write stories in a different way to novelists. Their stories need to be [...]
Did you get a SSHRC Insight Development Grant in June 2012?
Posted on April 25, 2013 by
I know you aren’t even a year into the development grant process but … If you have 2 years funding, you will run out of money in June 2014. If you know how this project will continue and you want your next grant to be continuous with this one (or at least have a chance [...]
Taking responsibility for your career
Posted on April 17, 2013 by
Every week or so we see another article in the mainstream or Higher Education press telling smart young people that going to graduate school in the humanities is a waste of time and money. We seem to be coming to the point qualitative researchers would call “saturation”, where new data doesn’t really add anything knew to [...]
Start thinking about your post-doc early
Posted on April 5, 2013 by
Are you within 12 – 18 months of finishing your dissertation? I know that’s a hard question. And you can’t really know with any certainty. Do you feel like you are approaching the end of this process? Have you considered a post-doctoral fellowship. Even if you are closer to finished or have already defended your [...]
