Rebecca Boden & Debbie Epstein 
Building Your Academic Career [EPUB ebook] 

Building Your Academic Career encourages you to take a proactive approach to getting what you want out of academic work whilst being a good colleague. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a career, the routes in and the various elements that shape current academic working lives. In the second half of the book we deal in considerable detail with how to write a really good CV (résumé) and how best to approach securing an academic job or promotion.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Who Should Use This Book and How

Why Have an Academic Career?

Shaping up

Academic Anatomies

Presenting Yourself

Vital Statistics

Getting a Job, Getting Promoted

Balancing Acts

Between Work and Life

Über den Autor

Research interests    Education policy particularly in relation to globalisation and socio-cultural change    Socio-cultural studies of diverse youthful identities and education    Education, media and consumer cultures    Elite Schools around the world and the formation of transnational elites Fields of Research (FOR)    Higher Education    Gender, Sexuality and Education    Education Policy    Sociology of Education