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Tag Archives: research
What’s your ideal academic job?
When you are looking for an academic job it is hard to imagine that you could get one and be unhappy, even miserable. And yet, I’ve met unhappy academics.
An academic career incorporates a wide range of activities and uses a lot of different skills. Even those who love it, and are successful, love different things about it, or excel at different aspects.
It is important to determine what is important to you. Your actual job may never match your ideal exactly, but knowing what your ideal looks like enables you to choose better compromises. Continue reading
Posted in Career Planning
Tagged academic careers, best contribution, coaching, research, service, teaching, teaching and learning centres
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You can ignore the grading, reprise
About this time last year I wrote a post about ignoring the big stack of grading in favour of research. What is your equivalent of spending a day reading 19th Century newspapers? And how much happier would you be if … Continue reading
Are you letting gremlins ruin your job?
No one will fund that research. Find a sexier topic. One there’s a bit of buzz about. And make it something useful. You’re really behind the times. There’s all kinds of educational technology out there. Why aren’t you using it? … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Culture
Tagged autonomy, choices, gremlins, research, responsibility, service, teaching
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What happened to the Life of the Mind?
Have you ever wondered why all these young people even want your job? They are brilliant. And they would probably contribute interesting things to debates in your field. But sometimes that whole “life of the mind” thing seems like a … Continue reading