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Month: November 2019

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Things university career advisers are not telling you

Posted on November 30, 2019February 23, 2020by Lukas Daubner
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The market for university sector career advisers seems to be on the rise. This trend suggests that the activities such as searching for a field of study, choosing a PhD program or pursuing a successful post-doc career have become more complex. […]

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Surviving supervision: walking the rackety bridge, together

Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019by Ai Tam Le
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Doing a PhD is challenging even for the most prepared and confident individuals. The PhD journey is a personal intellectual quest during which the bar is constantly raised for you and by you. Beside personal motivation, social relationships also play an important part […]

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From writing articles to editing someone else’s: journal editorial work from an early-career researcher’s perspective

Posted on November 18, 2019December 1, 2019by Melina Aarnikoivu

Two weeks ago, on November 1st, I experienced a new kind of pride that I hadn’t felt before during my doctoral studies. The first issue of a new higher education journal, Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (JPHE) […]

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Save the dates: events for higher education researchers in 2020

Posted on November 5, 2019April 21, 2020by Rachel Spacey
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Following the success of last year’s “Save the dates” post (thank you, Daniel Kontowski) we continue with ECHER’s aim to provide relevant information about higher education research events to early-career (and not-so-early-career) scholars.

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