Why is a healthy work-life balance in the world of academia so hard?
Why is a healthy work-life balance in the world of academia so hard? We have collected the key challenges for you – and have suggestions on how you can take …
Turkish translation of “Higher Education Research – What Else?” published
The title “Higher Education Research – What Else? The Story of a Lifetime – In Conversations with Anna Kosmützky and Christiane Rittgerott” by Ulrich Teichler has been published in Turkish …
Snippet: Reading sample from “Higher Education Research – What Else?”
Higher Education Research – What Else? The Story of a Lifetime – In Conversations with Anna Kosmützky and Christiane Rittgerott by Ulrich Teichler About the book The founder of …
Can Higher Education Test Positive on the Impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic?
Wrong-way on a one-way track? The COVID 19 outbreak has been Disruptor, Destructor and Designer all-in-one for its impact on the higher education sector and remote learning. In blind fashion, …
Academic coaching: Why Verlag Barbara Budrich believes in the value of writing and publication coaching
When you reflect on your years in high school, chances are there was at least one teacher who made an impact, someone who cared about your work and you as …
There should be more “diversity in academia”. Here’s what we need to do about it.
Does diversity in institutions of higher learning mean an enumeration of whether there are enough representatives across the traditional categories of race, class and gender? Or … Is it an …
5 Top tips as you start your career [From the Experts]
Congratulations! You have come this far – through the challenging years as a doctoral student or post-doc, with late nights, writer’s blocks, reviews and rewrites, committee critiques, and so much …
Women academics and COVID-19: A system of continued inequality?
As forward-thinking and innovative as many universities are, women in academia have not been immune to the discrimination and inequalities that women in all types of occupations continue to encounter. …
10 Lessons to achieving a more balanced life in academia
When H.G. Wells penned War of the Worlds and George Orwell wrote 1984, they both imagined dystopian future societies that appeared far-fetched by the standards of the time. Science fiction …
Women in Academia: Managing the work-life balance
Can women in academia aspire to a work-life balance? As women academics, we have fought hard for gender equality in a male-dominated world. We have sought the simple acknowledgement that …