“Getting out there” with your research Dr Charlotte Mathieson is an Associate Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, and also works as an Early Career Researcher Project Office in the Wolfson … Continue reading
By L. W. Hurtado, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh In what follows I have attempted to give some basic information and advice intended for the person who has recently finished graduate work and is seeking a junior-level academic position in a … Continue reading
By Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama Too many graduate students seem unprepared for what awaits them once they complete their dissertations. Sadly, in many cases their professors seem not to have considered it to be their responsibility to provide … Continue reading
The following post was written by Erika Salomon, one of our contributors, who blogs at A Theory of Mind. Erika is a graduate student studying social psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has an MA in Cognition … Continue reading
Managing your bibliography is one of the most essential skills you can develop as an academic. For some, the system will be a matter of organised chaos; a personalised mess of paper, online files, post-it notes which makes sense to … Continue reading
The following piece was published back in August 2011 by Rachel Bomberger on EerdWord, the blog of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. We think that it gives an invaluable insight into what goes on at a major publishing company when … Continue reading
NB: On behalf of bored audiences everywhere, I wrote this essay to promote good public speaking. It is being circulated widely on the Internet. As a result, I am receiving large volumes of email from students and others requesting help … Continue reading
By L. W. Hurtado, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh The following remarks are intended to give some assistance to the candidate who is perhaps applying for the first academic appointment. They are based on the writer’s experiences as applicant and (as … Continue reading
by Adrian Andreescu, Associate Circulation Editor, IJTS The Enigma The aim of scholarly research is to make a contribution to the existing human knowledge. Still, many scholars are aware of valuable articles that are rarely cited in the academic literature. The innovative advances delayed by the cumulative research impact lost cannot … Continue reading
Submitting to journals, increasing academic visibility, getting funding – whether you’re an undergraduate or an early-career academic, or even if you aim to be one of these, you need these posts in your life. We will publish to our resources … Continue reading