How to Academia - A blog on academic selfhelp
Today’s post will be about whether (and if yes, how) to approach potential employers in a cold email suggesting you’d like to work with them. First of all, I have to say: this is...
Recently, for some reason I don’t remember, I happened across a paper on so-called hot streaks in academic careers. This led me down a rabbit hole into research on success in academia, of which...
Welcome, dear readers. Happy Holidays! I hope you have a nice and quiet Christmas break – no matter what, where, and with whom you celebrate. Have a good time, stay healthy, and get a...
I have considered chairing panels at academic conferences for a while as a topic for a potential blog post. This aspect of academic life isn’t self-evident and there are only a few guides on...
This is just a quick post to tell you, in case you needed to hear, that it’s completely natural to ever be grappling with performance pressure in academia. And why advice like “just do...
In this series, I explain how you can get better at academic job applications (see the first part Applications in Academia 101: A Survival Guide (Part 1)). Now I’m going to provide some more...
In the last post, I outlined how you can get better at academic job applications (Applications in Academia 101: A Survival Guide (Part 1)). Now I’m going to provide some more detail on what...
Applications in an academic context are hard. And confusing if you don’t have lots of experience. How are you supposed to know what people are looking for? This blogpost will provide you with lots...
So, I did it. I was away. I was out. I packed my stuff and took a plane to Mexico and stayed there for 22 days. Not just like that, it was actually a...
Happy New Year, everyone! Wherever you are, I hope you came good into this 2023. May it be a healthy, successful and marvellous year for all of you! So… a new beginning. Well, that’s...
So, there was a time, some years ago – I was part of the studies representatives in Archaeology, and one task of this job was student counseling before the new winter semester was about...
This is the second part of our “why you didn’t hear from us much this past summer” series and you’ve got a lot to catch up! I have been quite busy this summer too....
Welcome back – seasons are changing, autumn is about to arrive and we epigrammetrists have been very busy during our summer break. Those of you who follow our social media accounts may have an...
You all may remember my posts from last year on the topic “Diss-cembering” – a word play on “Dissertation” and “December” (How to Diss-cember and Diss-cembering to the End). In December 2019 I finished...
So, I did it. I finished my challenge of 100 days of dissertation on Friday. I wrote about the idea for this challenge here in this post. You can see all my steps on...
