If You’re Considering Graduate School in Germany
A reader doing her graduate work in Germany sent me this information and asked me to share it on the website, for the benefit of others considering doing the same. Apparently there are a lot of...
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If You’re Considering Grad School/Job in Scandinavia, Part I (A Guest Post)
Academic life in Scandinavia This is the story of a British academic couple – now a family – and our experiences of working in Scandinavia. It has a happy ending. It is based entirely on personal...
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If You’re Considering Grad School/Work in Scandinavia, Part II (A Guest Post)
Academic life in Scandinavia This is the story of a British academic couple – now a family – and our experiences of working in Scandinavia. It has a happy ending. It is based entirely on personal...
View ArticleFor North Americans: the peculiar British interview process (A Guest Post)
This wonderful post on the British academic interview process is written by Kean Birch, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Science at York University in Canada. It was originally...
View ArticleThe Dutch Academic Job Market for Americans and Other English Speakers (A...
One of my blog commenters, Veronica Davidov, who has worked for many years in the Netherlands, remarked that American job seekers would benefit from knowing more about the Dutch job market, which is...
View ArticleUK Job Market Advice-Help From Readers
[Updated 12/18/14 to add Negotiating comments and ebook link at the bottom] A reader posted on Facebook a month or so ago, asking some very specific questions about the UK job market. Several readers...
View ArticleThe European Project-Based Postdoc
I’ve worked with a handful of clients applying to project-based postdocs in Europe. We’ve had some bumps in the road, as I had to learn the expectations of these postdocs. A successful reader...
View ArticleWhat is the REF? A Primer on UK Academia (Guest Post)
This was generously sent in by a former client, now employed faculty member. She is Lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of London. I am always grateful for info on the UK job market,...
View ArticleAmericans Don’t Brag
Americans don’t brag. That’s not true; Americans brag all the time, about many things–money, sex, the fish that got away. However, we don’t brag as much as you’d expect in our job applications....
View ArticleThe Oxbridge Interview (A Guest Post)
The author is an academic in a humanities discipline who has interviewed at both Oxford and Cambridge, with previous success at the former. Currently, s/he holds a senior academic position at another...
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Buy My Book!
Love the blog? Now get it in handy book form–only $11.40! Available for pre-order now–comes out August 4! Buy it at all these places! It also makes a great gift for all those struggling grad students...
View ArticleCan I Negotiate? Advice For All, Especially International Ph.D.s
I am regularly asked “can I negotiate my offer when it’s my only offer?” People constantly seem to think you need multiple offers to have leverage. This is not true. For the vast majority of schools,...
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Reflections On Our Way to Europe
As this goes out to you today, I am on my way, accompanied by my partner in crime Kellee Weinhold, to Scotland to start a month-long speaking tour of Scotland, England, Denmark, and Switzerland. Here’s...
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We’re All In the Same Boat
The European tour is going splendidly! So far I’ve spoken at University of Aberdeen (2 events by me: Hacking the US Academic Job Market, Academic Leadership for Women; 1 event by Kellee Weinhold: The...
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Thoughts from the UK and Denmark
Kellee and I are heading into the final week of our month in the UK and Europe! We’ve had an absolutely amazing journey so far. We visited the Universities of Aberdeen (thank you, Amy Bryzgel),...
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Please, Sir, I Want Some More Employment: Applying For UK Jobs, Part I – The...
By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her academic training has been in the UK and the US. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in...
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The UK Job Market Part II: Research By Numbers, or The REF
By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in 2014, with a year as a Fox Fellow at Yale, and before...
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The UK Job Market, Part III: “I Beg Your Pardon, But May I Have This Job?”...
By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in 2014, with a year as a Fox Fellow at Yale, and before...
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The UK Job Market, Part IV: Interviews, British-Style
By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her academic training has been in the UK and the US. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in...
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Banish These Words: Sexism and Binarism Edition – Guest Post by Maggie...
By Dr. Maggie Levantovskaya Maggie Levantovskaya is one of our TPII editors, and a writer and adjunct professor based in the Bay Area. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let’s talk about sexist language in job application...
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