Sprout: What coaching is (and what it isn’t)

A little while ago I mentioned I was planning on starting a coaching offer for final year PhD students and early career researchers (ECRs). It’s become increasingly clear to me that there is a real need for genuinely affordable advice and support. And, as a one-time PhD student, ECR and now precarious academic, I understand…

Coming soon! Coaching for final year PhDs and ECRs

As some of you may know, I am developing a coaching business aimed at final year PhD students and early career researchers. If you identify with either of these groups, I would be super grateful if you wouldn’t mind spending a few moments filling in my pre-launch survey. It won’t take more than a couple…

Museum Studies Dissertation Reviews

I’ve just realised that I’ve made a serious omission on this blog – I haven’t yet written about one of the larger editing jobs I currently do. For the last couple of years I’ve been Field Editor for Museum Studies Dissertation Reviews. Dissertation Reviews: … features overviews of recently defended, unpublished doctoral dissertations [aka theses]…

Research in Translation: Expressions of interest

Last Friday, the Research in Translation team got together to plan the next phase of the project. We’ve put together a really exciting programme of workshops for participants, to be hosted by project partners in Birmingham and Leicester. But the best news is that we’re now actively soliciting expressions of interest! So, if you’re an early career researcher…