Category: Working in Higher Education

This is not a test: discipline, the shitty first draft, and the real world.

A doctorate propels you towards the real world of scholarship. You will be a teacher, a researcher, an author. This is not a test. No-one else knows the answer to this stuff, that’s why you are making ‘an original contribution to knowledge’.

Academics communicating on The Outside

So, a bit of empathy, a small dose of social science, and some common sense is all you need to work brilliantly in teams, and be a brilliant communicator.

The Place where we Work

So I’ve been in the new job for four months, and I’m in a place to look back and reflect. This is the first post, and

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Founder of Research Degree Insiders