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Balancing Academic Research and Teaching

Many Early Career Researchers (ECRs) working in higher education institutions (HEIs) might tell you that simply running the gauntlet between research and teaching did not adequately prepare them for a career in academia.

What Happens Next?

What happens next? Everything is in state of flux and uncertainty. Nothing’s what we’re used to. Our routines haven’t just been broken; they’ve been shattered into a thousand different pieces and no-one seems to know how to put them back together again… yet.

Your LinkedIn Profile and How to Improve it

our LinkedIn profile can be an invaluable tool for your career development. It is your showcase to the professional world. Imagine LinkedIn as a huge virtual directory of everyone in your field – your LinkedIn Profile is your directory entry.

Top Tips for a Career Change

When you’re stuck in a rut and dreading each day of work, a change of career seems to be the answer. The grass looks greener and the sky bluer. But is it?  These ten crucial questions, answered honestly, will help you to think it through, evaluate your position and view the prospect with a steady gaze. 

Interview question: What’s your biggest weakness?

It’s an old classic and a question that seems to have had plenty of interviewees struggling, but should the question ‘What’s your biggest weakness?’ cause so much worry? Well, today we’re going to have a look at the different types of answers and offer some useful tips to help you with this tricky interview question!…>

How to Create a Professional Development Plan

What is a Professional Development Plan? Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the learning and development you undertake in order to carry out a current role or move into a new one. Many organisations have well-established CPD activities, but it’s still good to be proactive in order to: develop your current role, achieve greater satisfaction and…>

What To Do When You Have Multiple Opportunities

When applying for jobs, you might find yourself in a situation where you have multiple opportunities offered to you at the same time.  This might be viewed as a ‘good’ problem to have, but it does mean that you will have to make a potentially life-changing decision and that can often be a very difficult…>

The ‘Delivery’ Metaphor of Teaching and Learning

Many of us might remember learning about metaphors in school mainly as a poetic or linguistic device which we were encouraged to identify and discuss when analysing literary texts. Metaphors can help us understand complex ideas and systems by simplifying them; equally, they can confuse or constrain our thinking by over-simplifying things. If we analyse…>

Why Do We Need Appraisals?

Much can be gained from well-conducted appraisals. They can be good for us, the people we work with, and good for our employer by helping job performance.