Academic life is tough because one’s professional impact is hard to put into numbers that determine success. Results extend beyond the bottom line into many intangible factors. A lot of data are involved. And there are nit-picky relationships with colleagues that will last beyond the promotion decision. Research, teaching, and service can combine into an uncomfortable triad that doesn’t always yield fruit.
In this book, Anne-Wil Harzing, a professor at Middlesex University London, offers career advice to those moving up the ranks in academia. Based off her blogposts and her personal journey, this book offers advice about treating one’s promotion application at least as seriously as one treats a journal article. She speaks of failure through the lens of her first failure to reach full professor. She offers a template of resources to strengthen one’s own case.
Nothing that she says here is earth shattering. This book just contains solid advice for those navigating the path of academic advancement. It’s a pretty quick read in a conversational tone. I often find that books make the best mentors because the people in my life all interact with my life from a specific perspective. This book mentored me in a way. Reading Harzing’s book will provide rising academics with unbiased advice as they chart their own course on their own professional frontier.
Writing Effective Promotion Applications
By Anne-Wil Harzing
Copyright (c) 2018-2022
Tarma Software Research Ltd.
ISBN13 9781739609733
Page Count: 107
Genre: Career Development
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