Career Advice
Quitting my postdoc position has taken me on an incredibly rewarding global adventure requiring flexibility and adaptation.
The drive towards automation and away from a greenhouse gas-emitting economy is demanding new and evolving skills from Canada’s workforce, a report shows.
Injecting programs with interdisciplinarity can foster coveted skills in communication, collaboration, problem-solving and leadership.
What place should be given to teamwork in university education? Reflections on a teaching practice that relies on collaboration and solidarity as essential vectors of learning.
A panel of academics offers a few caveats for scientists to consider before jumping into public policy-making.
Showing gratitude, providing professional growth opportunities as well as community-building are all vital to being a good leader.
The case of McGill’s Building 21.
To be called by your name in a class is to exist in your own right.
Nine tips for cultivating a valued skill.
The innovation offers multiple opportunities for language teaching and learning.
Now is the time to think through how these new technologies can be improved and used ethically in everyday life, including in teaching and learning.
Responding to an inner call to explore a fresh facet of your professional identity means shedding some “shoulds.”
The proposal overcomes the common challenge of insufficient numbers and resources to offer degrees in languages such as Chinese.
A recent report on the future of the history PhD shows many students are living below the poverty line.
Once the value of ‘interdisciplinary’ is truly accepted, academia will significantly benefit.
Without properly training them, we are throwing our academics to the wind and shortchanging their students.
Why it’s important to provide analysis and context for your experience, credentials and successes in an application.
A written agreement is a good way to clarify expectations and build trust.
The “Organized Academic” shares how to transform your academic life.
Four strategies to help graduate students get their needs to the top of a professor’s to-do list.