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Talk One in Seville: Managing your time and building skills as a PhD student.
Delighted to share my thoughts on how to effectively manage your time and build skills as a PhD student with students at the Universidad...
Highly Commended Paper.
Nice to know folks liked our paper! Many thanks to Internet Research and the editorial team for a constructive review process!...
Everyone has a Wynne Chin story
I was asked to compose comments to celebrate Wynne Chin's contribution to the academic community. Everyone needs a Wynne in their life....
Celebrating Wynne Chin!
Such a pleasure to participate in the Universidad de Sevilla celebration of the 20th anniversary of Wynne Chin presenting on PLS &...
A curation of posts for job seekers (or 26 posts & 2 more to go).
As the job market picks up, I curated a few of my posts most relevant to finding a job. First, plan your search. Decide if it time to go:...
On things to think about on your job market CV (and beyond) (part two).
In Part One, I promised to focus on storytelling - but didn’t manage to … By stories, I mean what cues do you want to embed in your CV...
On things to think about on your job market CV (and beyond) (part one).
No one ever volunteered advice on how to construct a CV. I think I was expected to know how to create one by osmosis. So I looked up the...
On making sure your CV is accurate (or accurately depicting recent events).
Every so often I am asked to screen a CV by a job candidate, evaluate a cv as part of an internal review process or to serve an external...
On how do you know a place is a good place to start (or would you really want to work there?).
On how do you know a place is a good place to start (or would you really want to work there?). This year, my academic family is in...
Please remember the people of Iran.
What is happening in Iran is not ok. The protests continue and the crackdown is resulting in children, teen and college student...
On what to do if an interview goes bad (or how to weather the storm).
On what to do if an interview goes bad (or how to weather the storm). A PhD student recently asked what to do if an interviewer turns out...
On how to tell your advisor that you need independence.
On how to tell your advisor that you need independence (or you don't want to coauthor every paper with the boss). Every so often, a PhD...
On placing your PhD student at the right job (or learning to be patient).
On placing your PhD student at the right job (or learning to be patient). When I take on a Ph.D. student, it usually involves a somewhat...
On conversations with industry.
Enjoyed the conversation with Bucky Fairfax, D. B. A., and the Temple Family about the future of leadership and work in an age of...
On what to do when a job candidate behaves badly (or report, report report!).
On what to do when a job candidate behaves badly (or report, report report!). I recently posted that early career scholars would be smart...
On the peril of multi-essay dissertations (and the joy of knowing a topic well).
On the peril of multi-essay dissertations (and the joy of knowing a topic well). The past twenty years dissertations have changed in many...
On faculty hiring (or duck and cover!)
On faculty hiring (or duck and cover!) One of the little discussed but often manifest elements of faculty life is the turbulence faculty...
A curation of posts for PhD students.
Recently, José L. Roldán commented that I should prepare a talk on tips & tricks for PhD students. To help, he carefully curated a few of...
On reminders that no academic is perfect (or the humbling power of Grammarly).
On reminders that no academic is perfect (or the humbling power of Grammarly). When editing a paper, I ran Grammarly and found 100+...
On serving as a PhD Program Director.
The best thing about serving as a PhD program director is you get to know each of the students. Tonight, I took the first and second year...
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