Career Advice

John Robison explains how, using Lockdown Browser, he tried to replicate key elements of the traditional take-home humanities essay in a new assignment.

Here’s a framework to consider when you’ve outgrown your current role, Laura Kuizin writes.

Marcus Lau suggests three questions to ask for a successful transition into a first lecturer role.

Losing a colleague makes you ponder your role in the group—and whether you might need to wear a new hat, Caroline M. Stanley writes.

Anne Meyer-Miner offers four principles for organizing more meaningful academic gatherings.

Do your students think you’re a neo-Marxist feminist indoctrinator? Elisha Lim suggests some assignments intended to pull politically disaffected students back in.

Here are five techniques for refocusing your mind and getting motivated to write this summer, K. Anne Amienne and Daniela Blei write.

Shifting your approach to networking will make career exploration feel more like an exciting research project, Ellen Dobson and Jevin Lortie write.