While competition for academic jobs is fierce and progression even to entry-level is not guaranteed to PhD graduates, once entered, a career in academia can take all sorts of twists and turns as different opportunities present themselves along the way.
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What is the real cost of a PhD?
The answer to this depends on your situation and many factors should be taken into account. Studentship course fees If you are self-funding, you’ll need to pay the course fees, and the amount you pay will depend on where you live, the subject you are studying and whether you’re studying full or part-time. For example,…>
Visiting Lecturer Posts: How to get one & How they Benefit your Career
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 teaching (and often much more…>
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 challenge or simply want to…>
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 cinema during the 1940s in…>
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 for water pollution detection. This…>
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 Political Science and University College…>
PhD Student in Molecular Neuroscience at Muenster University in Germany
by Sarah Marten Shweta Gaikwad is undertaking a PhD in Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Muenster in Germany with Professor Markus Missler. She moved to Germany in 2009, having achieved a distinction in her MRes degree in Neuroscience at Nottingham Trent University. This is not Shweta’s first visit to Germany – in 2006…>
Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Juliane Degner Juliane Degner works at the University of Amsterdam as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Psychology. Juliane is a German national, having previously worked in universities in Germany and Belgium before moving to the Netherlands two years ago. The University of Amsterdam is one of the largest universities in Europe…>