The Black Hole
Companies need to define this role as its own standalone position in order to successfully integrate them on the team.
feed into the future planning of the organization.
This is why I highly recommend setting up business administration as its own stand-alone function.
Below are some suggested organizational structure modifications that will assist with implementation:
Request that your internal HR r...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/properly-integrating-a-business-administration-partner-on-your-leadership-team/
The Black Hole
The neuroscientist is gearing up to cover topics from open, team-based science to putting EDI to work in the field.
feed through any ideas to Sarah and/or start a conversation on particular topics in her wheelhouse, please do not hesitate to do so via the comments section or by emailing Continue reading....
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-black-hole/sarah-ruediger-joins-the-black-hole-team/
Speculative Diction
feed further competition in the form of a tightened market for academic (i.e. tenure-track faculty) jobs; this kind of Continue reading and stressful.
While only a relatively ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/my-grief-lies-all-within-phd-students-depression-attrition/
Speculative Diction
feed itself from the PhD onwards, and it’s why we still see teaching -- particularly undergraduate teaching -- described as a “load” that can be shed as a reward. We are already operating in a professional context where graduate students are often encouraged to treat teaching primarily as some...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/punching-for-pedagogy/
Speculative Diction
feed the machine of academic professionalization and promotion; and my point is not really about what we “produce” but why we do it, what motivates us, by what logic we are operating when we work.
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/priorities-and-productivity/
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/priorities-and-productivity/
Speculative Diction
A frank discussion about open access publishing, Dr. Eve’s own Open Library for the Humanities, and what future he sees for the academic publishing industry.
feedback.
As a result we managed to go from rough idea at the end of 2012/2013 to a platform launch in September 2015. That's not a bad timescale but we did nonetheless receive criticism that it was too slow (one person wrote, paraphrasing, that “the OLH has to-date not published a single artic...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/speculative-diction/open-access-academic-publishing-interview-dr-martin-paul-eve/
Career Advice
Communicating about your academic self.
feed a personal website like this, then you may want to choose one of the lower-stakes options.
There are a number of web services that can help you establish your presence. Here are some examples, as well as the level of risk and work they require.
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/creating-and-managing-your-online-presence/
Academica.edu profile: professional, lower...
Career Advice
There are steps you can take to help combat it.
feedback. You do not acclaim what you have done and neither degree nor credentials along the way may change what heavily lays on your mind.
This is known as Imposter Syndrome - when you have that little voice i...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/do-you-suffer-from-imposter-syndrome/
Career Advice
As time goes by, I’m having more and more misgivings about using social media.
feed.
There I was, on the exercise ball, baby in one arm, iPhone held at the end of the other, scrolling through these awful tweets, which only reinforced the points in The New Yorker article, when my thumb inadvertently hit the “like” button of one the Daily Stormer posts.
In a m...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/dear-professor-watch-what-you-tweet/
Career Advice
Once you’ve decided you want to jump into the public commentary sphere, how can you land on a specific idea?
feed if I wished. (If you do repost old material, it’s important to tell readers that the piece is from a previous month or year.)
Noticing a more obscure hashtag emerge, especially one that is not getting a lot of media attention because it may be specific to one country or subculture, can be ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/how-to-generate-op-ed-ideas/
Career Advice
Online teaching requires learning new skills, as well as acknowledging the types of audiences they are attempting to engage.
feedback. Our recent experiences as attendees of virtual presentations has been mixed at best, providing a showcase for the good, the bad, and the boring. Distancing measures are going to continue into the next academic year and many changes are likely going to be part of the post-pandemic era as th...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/when-it-comes-to-the-move-online-the-medium-is-the-message/
Career Advice
The current peer review system chews up and spits out authors – where reviewers are acting more as gatekeepers for publishers than as advising peers.
feed. Perhaps, somehow, we can push for a better, fairer peer review culture… or at least a much less destructive one.
My spin-dry experience began a few months before the summer, when I got the first round of criticisms about my book, which had been sent out for peer review by a reputable univ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/how-i-got-peer-reviewed-last-summer/
From PhD to Life
feed and how many wars will it end? Answer: None.
4. Money. I was the sole breadwinner in our family, cobbling together 3 adjunct jobs, an RA-ship, and a weekend stint working at a video store. No health insurance to speak of, no retirement plan. Something more had to happen.
What did ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-sonja-streuber-2/
From PhD to Life
feed in February 2012, a couple months before my PhD defense.
What was your first post-PhD job?
The Queen celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and there was a lot of Canadian popular interest in her six decades on the throne and role in Canada’s history. I proposed and wro...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-q-a-carolyn-harris/
From PhD to Life
feed.
Joe: Yes to Twitter. I can't second this enough. Conversations, connections, collaborations — they all happen every day. Twitter is invaluable to my professional life. I’ve gotten several jobs and almost countless contacts there, as well as a writing partner for a new creative pr...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/from-phd-to-life/transition-update-kelly-j-baker-joseph-fruscione/
Careers Café
feed the cattle. And if you want students to cheer up a bit after all that, you can talk about the recovery of the nene following near extinction.
So why haven’t I included these great examples in my courses to date? I guess I just didn’t know about them… they weren’t in my research area....
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/big-island-big-conservation-concerns/
Careers Café
feed and house themselves. It seems to me that this kind of funding system greatly undermines the intentions of scholarship programs to ensure that our best students can focus on solving our biggest problems. As a supervisor, it merely delays my problems of funding the student, rather than eliminati...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/funding-graduate-students/
Careers Café
Taming the digital anarchy for nerds.
feed, a Continue reading profile, Continue reading, a Continue reading page, a
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/social-media-dashboard-researchers/
Careers Café
How I adapted my regular course for a pandemic reality.
feed of myself with a PowerPoint presentation (via Zoom). Afterwards, I will upload everything to YouTube as unlisted videos for the automatically generated captioning. (For more detailed advice on video lectures, I highly recommend checking out
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/careers-cafe/pandemic-pedagogies-11-months-later/
Responsibilities May Include
We gain far more by capitalizing on our strengths than by focusing on our weaknesses.
feedback. A second way to build awareness of our strengths is to ask others for critical feedback; it doesn't cost you anything except vulnerability (gulp). How? Frame it in a full-spectrum way: what is something this person appreciates about you, and what is one thing that you could work o...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/responsibilities-may-include/6-ways-to-find-your-silver-linings-in-grad-school/
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