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This book demystifies the academic promotion process by bringing together international perspectives - both personal accounts and reflections on the structures and processes of promotion in different contexts - to help you understand the steps you can take at any stage of your career to move up the ladder.
List of contents
Foreword; Rowena ArshadPart 1: Scholars' Experiences and Personal Reflections on Academic Promotion 1: Demystifying the academic promotion process; Marian Mahat and Jennifer Tatebe 2: From perilous to permanent; Jennifer Tatebe 3: Being female in academia; Marian Mahat 4: Raising the bar: Landing your first academic position in U.S. higher education; Blair Izard and David Moss Part 2: International Perspectives on the Structural and Institutional Processes of Academic Promotion 5: Academic promotion in the UK: Your guide to success; Jackie Calkwell 6: Academic careers and promotions in Finland and Austria: System and institutional perspectives; Jussi Kivistó, Elias Pekkola, and Attila Pausits 7: The academic market in Latin America: Challenges and opportunities for early career scholars; Elizabeth Balbachevsky 8: What now for the graduate and early career academics; Graeme Aitken
About the author
Marian Mahat is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Marian has more than twenty years of professional and academic experience, spanning several universities, the Australian Federal and local governments, as well as the private sector. Her research focuses on student learning and outcomes in different learning and teaching contexts and systems.
Jennifer Tatebe is a Lecturer in the School of Critical Studies in Education, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her work examines the transformative potential of education in disadvantaged contexts by exploring the socioeconomic and political contexts of these educational spaces and their influence on teaching and learning.
