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.
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.
A couple of years ago, I had 4 jobs. I was teaching a Masters professional communication subject with 60 students; I had been seconded part-time
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’.
One of the things I’m exploring on this blog is ways of writing in a way that is more open, more iterative, like my whole
This is the other half of the post on marking. It discusses the role of emotions in marking (see Inger Mewburn (@thesiswhisperer) and her conversations
So, as you may have noticed (just perhaps) that I also run @AcadSkillsMelb and the Academic Skills Facebook Page. And I read a lot of
In the last few weeks, things capital-c-Changed. So welcome to the jam-packed blog-of-all-things. It’s long. Also, this is a pretty emotional and momentous post, so
I kept a research journal as a blog while I was writing my doctoral thesis. I was teaching Masters students who were writing a thesis
I have had an awesome week on Twitter. Research Ryan Gosling (@ResearchGosling) sent me a really useful reading list to help me give my invited
I downloaded some journal lists from Discovery on Monday. And then on Wednesday I had a migraine. One of those I-want-to-rip-my-face-off, make-it-stop, three-days-of-horror migraines. Usually,
