Managing Your Academic Career : Strategies for Success

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• ISBN13: 9781864489842
• ISBN10: 1864489847
• Format: Trade Paper
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Summary

Practical advice and strategies for making the most of a career in higher education.

Author Biography

D. Royce Sadler is currently Professor of Education at Griffith University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
Part one: Academic life
Defining your academic focus	3	(6)
Managing your time	9	(8)
Finding a mentor	17	(4)
Establishing an academic network	21	(5)
Performing on a selection committee	26	(4)
Designing a sabbatical	30	(7)
Writing research grant proposals	37	(5)
Changing academic fields	42	(6)
Coping with carrer interruptions	48	(4)
Confronting bias and discrimination	52	(11)
Part two: Applying for jobs and promotions
Compiling a curriculum vitae	63	(5)
Developing a label for your career	68	(4)
Choosing academic referees	72	(5)
Assessing promotional prospects	77	(6)
Positioning for promotion	83	(5)
Learning after non-promotion	88	(7)
Part three: Teaching
Helping students learn	95	(5)
Improving teaching through collaboration	100	(11)
Evaluating quality in teaching	111	(6)
Developing cultural sensitivity	117	(6)
Gaining entry to graduate supervision	123	(5)
Climbing out of a teaching rut	128	(9)
Part four: Publishing
Developing a publishing program	137	(6)
Organising a publication syndicate	143	(7)
Weighing conference papers against journal articles	150	(4)
Resolving joint authorship	154	(6)
Analysing an editor's rejection	160	(5)
Measuring research productivity	165	(10)
Part five: PhD studies
Beginning a PhD	175	(7)
Balancing competing priorities	182	(5)
Publishing during degree candidature	187	(4)
Converting your thesis into a book	191	(8)
Part six: A final word
Maintaining a focus on university core business	199	(4)
Further reading	203	(2)
Index	205