Advice for authoring a PhD or academic book

Becoming more creative in academic work

- a menu of suggestions

Originality and innovation can be achieved by moving an ‘obvious’ idea from one context and applying it in another

How to write a blogpost from your journal article

One of the oddest things that people in academic life regularly say to me is: ‘I’m not paid to write blogposts, only research articles. If my department or the grant-funder wants to start paying me for doing posts, then that would be a…

Should your academic CV ( or résumé) go digital, at last?

To decide, think through how the modern academic jobs process works

To decide, think through how the university jobs process works now

Why academic CVs (or résumés) are distinctive

The rules governing academic CVs (short for the Latin curriculum vitae in the…

Assessing your research and publication choices

- How an adapted ‘business model canvas’ may help

Doing a Quick Literature Review

Modern practices better exploit digital era capabilities

Doing quicker literature reviews

Four ways to better exploit digital era capabilities

Poor citation practices are a form of academic self-harm in the humanities and social sciences

There is a huge gulf between many STEM scientists (in science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and scholars in other disciplines in how often they cite other…

All academic books must go digital

How conservative publishers and authors risk killing off books and chapters across university social sciences and humanities