Tips for Career – How to Face an Interview for Lecturer Post

To be a good lecturer you need to have a number of positive attributes. A lecturer is primarily expected to be a good teacher above everything else, who will be able to arrest the attention of the students and encourage them to learn new things and gain more knowledge. A good lecturer is able to […]

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Do You Still Call People Sir or Ma’am? Stop it!

It’s worked for hundreds of years, so why change now?: You’ve probably been taught to call elders and those in authority by either sir or ma’am (madam is the formal version, but ma’am is more common). Unfortunately, it can be insulting to many people and so I want to challenge you change how you address people.

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Finishing your PhD thesis: 15 top tips from those in the know

Trying to complete a PhD thesis in time for the October deadline? We share some advice on getting over that final hurdle Everyone wants their thesis to be amazing. Many PhD students are now in the final throes of writing their thesis. Turning years of research into a single, coherent piece of work can be […]

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The key to a successful PhD thesis?

We need to step out beyond the safety of footnotes and the words of big-name scholars to reach a level of academic independence. Writing a PhD thesis: the temptation is to show that you’ve read everything in your field. In the last couple of months of completing my law thesis I found myself struggling to […]

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