My Tip To Early Career Researchers: Teach Well, Take Risks, and Love What You Do

In academia — unfortunately — you are often measured on your research outputs. For most, you can be an amazing teacher, but if you are not producing research papers and getting in grants, you can be seen as not quite making the mark. Career progression for many academics is thus often focused on the quality of your research outputs.

Well, in a year where I became a Principal Fellow of the HEA and was awarded a Best Lecturer award in the School of Computing, I can vouch for the fact that an…