Building Your Academic Career encourages you to take a proactive approach to getting what you want out of academic work whilst being a good colleague. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a career, the routes in and the various elements that shape current academic working lives. In the second half of the book we deal in considerable detail with how to write a really good CV (résumé) and how best to approach securing an academic job or promotion.
Who Should Use This Book and How
Why Have an Academic Career?
Shaping up
Academic Anatomies
Presenting Yourself
Vital Statistics
Getting a Job, Getting Promoted
Balancing Acts
Between Work and Life
Rebecca Boden - University of the West of England. I work at the nexus of sociology and cultural studies and my research interests comprise childhood and youth studies, particularly sexuality, gender and race in education and in popular culture, and the cultural politics of education. Overall, my focus is on the dominant and how it is held in place, though this often involves investigating the experiences of those in subordinated, marginalised and/or stigmatised groups. I am especially concerned with how children negotiate these differences that make a difference and their agency in the context of institutional settings such as schools and families. Research interests
Education policy particularly in relation to globalisation and socio-cultural change Socio-cultural studies of diverse youthful identities and education Education, media and consumer cultures Elite Schools around the world and the formation of transnational elites
Fields of Research (FOR)
Higher Education Gender, Sexuality and Education Education Policy Sociology of Education
