Full Description
Academic promotion doesn't come easy: a successful application requires you to demonstrate continued growth in every area of your role as a researcher, educator and member of the academic community. Furthermore, the detail of the promotions process varies from one country to another and even from one institution to another. So where does an ambitious academic start?
Achieving Academic Promotion demystifies the process by bringing together international perspectives - both personal accounts and reflections on the structures and processes of promotion in different contexts - to help you understand the steps you can take at any stage of your career to move up the ladder. Featuring compelling and encouraging personal stories of success, as well as practical tips and takeaways, this timely book is essential reading for the academic who wants to be promotion-ready.
Contents
Foreword; Rowena ArshadPart 1: Scholars' Experiences and Personal Reflections on Academic Promotion
Chapter 1: Demystifying the academic promotion process; Marian Mahat and Jennifer Tatebe
Chapter 2: From perilous to permanent; Jennifer Tatebe
Chapter 3: Being female in academia; Marian Mahat
Chapter 4: Raising the bar: Landing your first academic position in U.S. higher education; Blair Izard and David Moss
Part 2: International Perspectives on the Structural and Institutional Processes of Academic Promotion
Chapter 5: Academic promotion in the UK: Your guide to success; Jackie Calkwell
Chapter 6: Academic careers and promotions in Finland and Austria: System and institutional perspectives; Jussi Kivistó, Elias Pekkola, and Attila Pausits
Chapter 7: The academic market in Latin America: Challenges and opportunities for early career scholars; Elizabeth Balbachevsky
Chapter 8: What now for the graduate and early career academics; Graeme Aitken
