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Achieving Academic Promotion

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This book demystifies the academic promotion process by bringing together international perspectives - both personal accounts and reflections on the structures and processes of promotion in differe...
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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.
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Price: $27.99
Pages: 176
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Series: Surviving and Thriving in Academia
Publication Date: 28 January 2019
ISBN: 9781787569027
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

EDUCATION / Counseling / Career Development, Careers guidance, EDUCATION / Higher, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General

Achieving Academic Promotion is an important and highly valuable resource for academics at all career stages. This book both supports and challenges all of us to focus on our career trajectories with confidence, precision and ownership. Tips and advice provided throughout are pragmatic and professionally contextualised to ensure relevance across the international academic community. The personal reflections from the authors add a significant dimension to understanding and successfully addressing promotion processes while managing the realities of the day to day complexities that would otherwise subsume our intentions successfully build our careers. A ‘must read’ for everyone looking to realise their potential through strategic career enhancement.
— Professor Jim Watterston, Dean of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Marian Mahat is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Marian has more than twenty years of professional and academic experience, spanning several universities, the Australian Federal and local governments, as well as the private sector. Her research focuses on student learning and outcomes in different learning and teaching contexts and systems.
Jennifer Tatebe is a Lecturer in the School of Critical Studies in Education, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her work examines the transformative potential of education in disadvantaged contexts by exploring the socioeconomic and political contexts of these educational spaces and their influence on teaching and learning.
Foreword; Rowena Arshad
Part 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