• Jamie Pratt, Research Officer, Transition Q&A

    Jamie Pratt received his PhD in philosophy from York University, specializing in ethics. He is now the research officer in York’s Faculty of Fine Arts.…

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  • Changes ahead

    I’ll be playing around with different themes, layouts, and header images over the next few days. Don’t mind the mess and here’s hoping for positive…

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  • Patience in the neutral zone

    Early this month was the one-year anniversary of my dissertation defence: 3 February 2012. Thinking about how much time has passed since then can get…

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  • Alexandra Guerson, Part-Time Faculty, Transition Q & A

    About Alexandra Guerson Alexandra Guerson earned her PhD in history from the University of Toronto. She’s currently a part-time faculty member at New College, University…

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  • Manifesto

    There’s a big, and growing, problem with academic labour and the job market. What makes it worse is that there hasn’t been an attendant shift…

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  • Exploration

    When I hired my career coach, Hillary Hutchinson, back in the fall, I had no idea what a coach did. I’d heard—and laughed about—life coaches…

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  • Scholarship and life

    Scholars are almost always academics. We assign the designation to professors and researchers with university posts who get paid to research and publish. The term…

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  • Jessica Langer, Social Media and Digital Marketing Consultant, Transition Q&A

    Jessica Langer earned her PhD in English from Royal Holloway, University of London. She runs ideas in flight, a social media and digital marketing consultancy, and…

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  • A job interview

    I had a job interview a couple weeks back. I wasn’t offered the position, but I still consider it a success. A celebration, even. Here’s…

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  • The importance of blogging

    Reading an interview with #altac blogger Liana Silver got me thinking about the importance of blogging in my life. I first started to blog in June 2006. Life…

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