From PhD to Life
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham earned her PhD in modern Chinese history from the University of California, Irvine in 2014. She's currently social media manager at the Association for Asian Studies in Ann Arbor, MI. Find her online at Continue reading and...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-maura-elizabeth-cunningham/
Features
The two partners behind the research marketing firm Academica tell us what today’s students are looking for in a university education.
Ken Steele – researcher, marketer and “recovering academic” – spends three weeks out of four on the road, delivering a message to university faculty and administrators that they don’t always want to hear: Student expectations have changed dramatically, with scholarship taking a back seat t...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/will-it-get-me-a-job/
Features
Denis Harrisson looks back on his years as president of Université du Québec en Outaouais.
After writing about his five-year term (2015-2020) as president of Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) in his book torat-sous-tension-projets-occasions-adversites-4162.html">Un rectorat sous tension : projets, o...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-balancing-act-of-being-a-university-president/
News
In his latest award-winning book, Weaponized Lies, McGill professor emeritus Daniel J. Levitin pushes readers to cut through information overload to identify bad stats and faulty arguments.
Daniel J. Levitin has built a reputation as a popular science writer and public scholar through his ability to condense neuroscience and psychology in straightforward and often wry terms for a wide audience in bestselling books like Your-Brain-Music-Obsession/...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/neuroscientist-using-scientific-method-take-public-crisis-critical-thinking/
News
March 31, 2020 2:00 p.m. EST
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Researchers and clinicians working on COVID-19 and the novel coronavirus now have a single web portal where they can access a range of resources to help their work. The project, ca...
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Western to make vaccines mandatory for students in residence
With a planned full return to in-person classes in September, Western University is stepping up its health and safety measures. Along with it...
News
The two former university presidents speak with an academic who studies higher education leadership and governance about improving opportunities for women.
Within the Canadian university sector, Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera are leadership giants. Dr. Piper served as president of the University of British Columbia from 1997 to 2006, and as vice-chancellor from September 2015 to June 2016. Dr. Samarasekera was president and vice-chancellor of the...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/hitting-a-nerve-martha-piper-and-indira-samarasekera-on-their-new-book-about-women-in-leadership/
Career Advice
This advice is not only for recent postsecondary graduates, but for anyone hoping to engage in some self-reflection while in quarantine.
The greatest intellectual challenge I ever had to undertake did not come from reading Jacques Derrida for the first time or writing my master’s thesis. No, it came from beginning the process of introspection. While I thought that I had a good understanding of my mind, I learned not too long ago th...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/this-pandemic-has-given-students-the-rare-opportunity-to-study-themselves/
From PhD to Life
Pablo Dominguez Andersen earned his PhD in modern history from the Humboldt University of Berlin. He currently works as a content manager at interactive tools, a digital agency in Berlin. Find Pablo on
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-pablo-dominguez-andersen/
From PhD to Life
Joseph Fruscione (PhD, English) contributed to the Transition Q & A series in December 2013 and August 2015. You can read his interviews Continue reading and Continue reading. After 15 years teaching literature and first-year writing in the Wa...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-update-kelly-j-baker-joseph-fruscione/
From PhD to Life
Sarah Lockyer, an Acadian from New Brunswick, earned her PhD in bioarchaeology at Bournemouth University in the U.K. She is now the Canadian Armed Forces's casualty identification coordinator and forensic anthropologist. She can be found on Twitter @s_lock...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-sarah-lockyer-forensic-anthropologist/
Careers Café
If you’ve visited your university’s career centre or read job search columns and books, you already know most of the common steps in the job search process: figure out what you want, determine what employers in your desired career path want, tailor your résumé and cover letter to specific jobs...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/scripting-the-job-search/
Careers Café
Recently a woman contacted me with a question that was clearly causing her some distress. She's applying for academic jobs. And she's a mother.
Being a mother has had an impact on her publishing record and means her career trajectory doesn't look quite like the ideal. And yet she doesn't want to ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/what-do-you-say-about-the-kids/
Careers Café
Welcome back. All of us here at the Careers Café hope that you had a joyful and relaxing holiday season. We're gearing up to provide more advice and support for your career in 2012.
One of the things that is so attractive about an academic career is the job security. If you secure a tenure-track...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/where-will-your-career-go-in-2012/
Graduate Matters
The most helpful advice the authors received was ‘show, don’t tell.’
The Continue reading, possibly the world’s most prestigious international scholarship, is awarded annually by the Rhodes Trust for high-performing student leaders to attend the University of Oxford. The winners of the 2020 Quebec, Canada compet...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/graduate-matters/becoming-rhodes-scholars-preparing-the-application/
Ask Dr. Editor
Tips, sample sentences, and a template letter for your research partners.
Question:
I’m an early career researcher, and until now I’ve only ever written CIHR grant applications to fund myself — never to fund a research project. I’ve ghostwritten letters of reference for my research supervisors (which they, of course, edited before signing), b...
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What is the UA Career Advertising Portal?
This portal can be used for booking online career advertisements that are posted on our universityaffairs.ca careers website. If you want to book career advertisements that should also appear in the print and digital editions of Unive...
https://universityaffairs.ca/advertise/help/
Features
Flexible and practical, online graduate programs are the right call for some students.
Shelley Evans was midway through a master's of environmental studies degree at Dalhousie University when her son was born. She put her studies on hold to spend the next four years caring for him. When the time came to return to her academic work, Ms. Evans discovered that she would have to pay tuiti...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/graduate-students-get-long-distance-feeling/
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