There are two sorts of visiting lecturer posts. One, common in the US, where a non-permanent member of staff who does not have a contract elsewhere is employed for a short time to deliver teaching or meet research agendas. This sort of lecturing is seen as one step above adjunct…>
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Translating your Skills from Academia into Business
Transition your skills from Academia to Business with jobs.ac.uk Do you want to take your academic and research skills into the world of business? This article explores how you can adapt your skills from Academia and successfully use them in the business sector. You may be searching for an innovative…>
Understanding a Job Advert: What is an Informal Contact?
Many job adverts, although not all, list the name of an informal contact. This is the name and email address or phone number of a member of the academic staff who can be very useful to you as a jobseeker and can help you put together a winning application. But…>
New Zealand Immigration – Information on Working Visas
If you apply and are granted a position with a New Zealand University it will be offered on the provision that you are able to obtain a New Zealand Visa. However, the university will be able to provide assistance and guidance to newly appointed staff from overseas. Most work and…>
English Lecturer at the University of Qatar
David Bartsch originally comes from America, but he is now working in Qatar, which is situated in the Persian Gulf area of the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia to the south. Qatar’s economy has flourished in the last fifteen years due to its rich reserves of gas and oil, and…>
Assistant Professor at Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Dr Josko Brakus worked in upstate New York until 2008, as Assistant Professor at the prestigious Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester.
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology – Roja Muthiah Research Library in Chennai, India
by Sarah Marten Dr Stephen P Hughes works as a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He has just returned from fifteen months working in India, conducting research into the social history of Tamil…>
Senior Lecturer in the Environment at the University of Brighton
by Sarah Marten Dr James Ebdon’s role as senior lecturer at the University of Brighton combines an interesting mix of teaching, research, international workshop facilitation, and conference presentations. His ground-breaking research has helped to discover a bacterium in sewage which can be used to develop simple and inexpensive tests…>
Tourism Lecturer/Coordinator of Post Graduate Studies for the Institute for Tourism Studies in China
Dr Julie Whitfield is currently Lecturer in Events Management in the School of Services Management at Bournemouth University. She previously worked as a Tourism Lecturer and Coordinator of Post Graduate Studies at the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) in Macau, SAR, China. Macau lies on the western side of the…>
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ayo Wahlberg is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen in the Department of Anthropology. The University of Copenhagen is the largest university in Denmark, with 37,000 students and 7,000 staff. Prior to moving to Denmark Ayo worked for six years at the London School of Economics and…>