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Theming your days for effectiveness and relaxation
By devoting entire days to particular areas of your academic life, you will feel like you have more control over your tasks.
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Writing for peer reviewers from outside your field: lessons from non-fiction
When you need to explain a niche subject to a broader audience, contextualizing big numbers and using sensory metaphors can help to explain your research.
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Regain control of your inbox
A few suggestions to help reduce the amount of time you are spending on reading, writing and sorting emails.
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What happens when an academic mindset and corporate culture collide
Volunteering during retirement should be fun, but one academic unexpectedly found himself in the middle of a clash of cultures.
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Made to measure: how to ‘tailor’ your job applications
Customizing your job application documents for academic and industry roles will help you stand out as a candidate.
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Writing winning partnership grant applications
Setting up for success with the SSHRC PG.
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Privileged and full of hope
A retired kinesiology instructor continues to fulfill his passions as a mentor to students, teachers, coaches, and outdoor guides.
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Why you should start using open educational resources in your teaching
These learning materials can be freely shared and usually allow for the ability to adapt them to meet student needs.
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The benefits of training attention
Universities need to take an active role in cultivating this fundamental tool for student learning.
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Harnessing the power of storytelling for mature international graduate students
A narrative approach emphasizes the importance of personal stories and experiences in career development.
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How to start the process of enhancing your writing versatility
In the second of this two-part series, the author gives grad students some concrete steps to enhance writing versatility.
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The art of a getting a great summer break
Want the summer break you need? Prepare to work at it.
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How to take action against gender inequality and discrimination
Four steps graduate students, postdocs and their allies can take to advance equality.
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How a community fridge is feeding students in more ways than one
Sustainability projects like this at McMaster help to meet campus needs and provide valuable opportunities for students to put theory – and their passions – into practice.
