scholarship

Shining a spotlight on scholarship: Building and developing your profile in an education-focused career in psychology

On 29th November, 2024, I was super excited to join T-FUN - the Teaching Focused University Network (Psychology) - to talk about education-focused careers in Psychology. T-FUN is an exciting brand new network for teaching-focused psychology academics! The inaugural webinar featured founders Dr Katy Burgess (Cardiff University) and Prof Louise Taylor (Oxford Brookes University), plus… Continue reading Shining a spotlight on scholarship: Building and developing your profile in an education-focused career in psychology

reward and recognition, scholarship

The ‘buy one, get one free’ (BOGOF) model of scholarship in higher education

For education-focused academics, getting promoted can be hard. Even being appreciated just for doing what you do can sometimes be hard. How can we build the kind of profile that contributes to reward and recognition? When your schedule is packed full of teaching, student support, marking, quality assurance, course committees, marking, outreach, not to mention… Continue reading The ‘buy one, get one free’ (BOGOF) model of scholarship in higher education

Academic development, higher education, Teaching-focused careers

A maverick in your midst

This blog was first posted at https://onehe.org/2019/02/07/a-maverick-in-your-midst/ on 7 February 2019 I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about career development. Firstly, I was privileged to speak at a couple of conferences for students about careers in psychology, which made me reflect on how ‘long and winding’ my career path had been (why take the… Continue reading A maverick in your midst