Achieving Academic Promotion

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
As an early career academic, it’s sometimes hard to understand the purposes and processes of a large tertiary institution. One of the first things new academics do learn, however, is that promotion is the holy grail. It is how you progress in your career - but the question remains what do you need to do, know, understand and seek out so that you can get promoted? This book answers these questions and will become your guide to preparing and applying for academic promotion. Take this book with you as your develop your academic career. Dip in and out as you reach milestones, challenges or opportunities along the way. With a range of strategies, advice and ideas, this text is truly invaluable to those seeking to join, and progress, within the academy. -- Dr Joanne Blannin, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
This book is undoubtedly a good resource, not only for early and mid-career academics and doctoral students, but also for scholars at all stages in their careers. This book can be used by the Human Resource Departments of HEIs when conducting induction programs for new academic staff appointed and also in formal mentoring programs. The mentor and mentee can discuss pertinent aspects related to preparing for academic promotions. -- Dr Rajkumar Mestry
This book isn’t simply about how to ‘fit’ into higher education institutions in order to be able to make a living from academic work, but also challenges us to think about how our institutions might be transformed so they become places where the intellectual contribution of all is properly valued. -- Professor Howard Stevenson
Education scholars explore scholars' experiences and personal reflections on academic promotion, and international perspectives on the structural and institutional processes of academic promotion. Among their topics are demystifying the academic promotion process, raising the bar: landing your first academic position in US higher education, academic careers and promotions in Finland and Austria: system and institutional perspectives, the academic market in Latin America: challenges and opportunities for early career scholars, and promotion within the academy. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *