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Life balance

Jo Mitchell

How to make your work environment work for you

Employers’ duty of care has long protected many from the risks of a harmful physical working environment. But the scrabble to set up new work-from-home stations almost overnight has left many working in woefully less-than-ideal situations.

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Grants and proposals

| Gareth Ridley-DeMonick

How to nail a grant application

Grants and proposals

| Andrew Derrington

When grant writing goes bad

How to stay motivated when you’re job hunting

The search for your next academic job can be exhausting and painful. To have got where you are, however, you will have faced – and overcome – steep challenges. So what can you do now to revitalise your search and keep momentum up until you finally nail that job?…

Conferences

| Jo Mitchell

Rethinking academic conferences

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a dramatic and thorough rethinking of in-person events, including academic conferences. So given that the alternative of virtual conferences look set to stay, how can these be refined to deliver the best and most accessible experience?…

Job Search

| The GA Jobs Team

Keeping track of your job search

Dates, files, emails addresses, reminders . . . there’s a lot to keep track of when you are job searching. We suggest a simple job search spreadsheet to help you keep everything in one place….

Teaching and supervision

| Jo Mitchell

Online teaching: what have we learned and how to move forward

The sudden transition to online teaching precipitated by the pandemic has been stretching – and dizzying for many. Here is what we have learned so far, and what we can do better in the future….