Collected resources on academic career matters, writing, and software.
Resources
The resources below are designed with the intent of giving people some tools to get started solving various career challenges. They’re a mix of posts and blogs from others that I’ve found helpful, useful sites, and example materials from my own career.writing A Curriculum Vitæ
Below are some guides for producing an academic curriculum vitae. These are shaped by my location within the Australia/Oceania context, and are shaped by my disciplinary experiences. I don’t think you need to read all of these -- find the one that speaks to you.
Dr Karen's guide to writing an academic CV [↗]
Straightforward explanation of how to lay out a CV. Provides advice on formatting so you don’t have to go too wild.
Academic Positions: How to Write a Professional Academic CV [↗]
Effecitvely a briefer version of Dr Karen’s guide, if you’re just looking for headings.
Elsevier's guide to writing an academic CV [↗]
Mostly useful in terms of the way that it explains the differences between academic and non-academic CVs.
The Guardian's top 10 mistakes in an academic CV [↗]
Useful guide for fixing issues in your CV. Importantly, like good advice, all of these issuse should be immediately fixable if you find them in your own work. I think points 1, 3, and 6 are particularly important.
Curriculum vitæ workshop slides [PDF]
From a CV-writing workshop I ran in 2018, marginally updated in 2022.
My Successful Curriculum Vitæ [PDF]
This is the CV I was using when I got my first ongoing role. This was for an ongoing role at a Go8 university, which is equivalent to an R1 tenure-track equivalent role in Australia).
Job-seeking
Looking for an academic job? You’ll find some useful resources here.
Academic jobs wiki [↗]
An informally maintained directory of job ads from around the world. While it can be a little frustrating to navigate, the wiki does get updated frequently. Perhaps more importantly, it has insights from contributors about the departments and the universities, so you can find out about the culture before you start to apply.
Sterneworks academic jobs guide [↗]
Jonathan Sterne has a lot of useful materials here for academic career considerations. Mostly these are onward links, but
Teaching
Materials from my teaching; more to come here.
Sample slides
Screenshots of some of my teaching and research slides, hopefully useful prompts for your own teaching!