by Sarah Marten Dr. James Ebdon 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…>
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Career Opportunities in Private Tutoring
Postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers all have the skills necessary to make an excellent private tutor. While it is not possible to teach in state schools in the UK without a PGCE qualification, you can offer your services as a personal tutor – someone who offers in-depth one-to-one tuition to…>
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology
by Sarah Marten Professor Adrian Bone Professor Adrian Bone is Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology and Head of Research at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences (PABS) at the University of Brighton. The pharmacy school is one of the oldest accredited pharmacy schools in the UK. Adrian’s…>
Challenges in Overseas Student Recruitment
For international student recruiters, the quest is to find a rich vein of students from across the world, which will not only enhance campus diversity but also bring in much-needed tuition revenue and also burnish a university’s reputation abroad.
Lecturer in History of Dress and Textiles
by Sarah Marten Dr Rebecca Arnold has been in post at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, for just two months, bringing a wealth of experience in teaching, research and writing to this prestigious institution. Her particular interest is the development of ready-to-wear fashion in the twentieth…>
Working in Higher Education FAQ
University students often fail to realise that it requires an enormous number of employees working in a huge range of jobs to enable a Higher Education institution to function. More than 300,000 people currently work in HE in the UK across more than 170 institutions. Some of these workers are…>
The Challenges Facing Academic Staff in UK Universities
Everyone who has featured as a case study in our Career Development pages agrees on one thing – they really enjoy their jobs, and have no plans to move on from the university sector in the foreseeable future! Most echo the feelings of Professor Martin Shepperd from Brunel University who…>
Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia
by Sarah Marten Dr Karl Cox Dr Karl Cox has recently returned to the UK after working in Australia for over six years, initially as a Senior Research Associate in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney. He then…>
Early Career Fellow
by Dr Catherine Armstrong Deborah Toner is in the final stages of finishing her PhD and wants to go into university lecturing. Below she describes her academic journey from student to jobseeker and explains how she manages to remain positive in the face of stiff career challenges. What was…>
Academic Cover Letter Template
(Teaching-Focused Lectureship Post) This is an academic cover letter template that you can use together with the Academic CV template. <Write your address and phone number and email address in this area> <date> Application for position of Dear , <In the first paragraph introduce…>