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How to Be a Happy Academic: A Guide to Being Effective in Research, Writing and Teaching

How to Be a Happy Academic: A Guide to Being Effective in Research, Writing and Teaching - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alexander Clark, Bailey SousaPublish date:4/28/2018Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sage Publications Ltd.ISBN-13:9781473978805ISBN-10:1473978807UPC:9781473978805Book Category:Study Aids, Education, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Graduate School Guides, Adult & Continuing Education, CareersSize:9.40 x 6.60 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.431Product ID:SCRNEH05B0

Want to be an effective, successful and happy academic? This book helps you hone your skills, showcase your strengths, and manage all the professional aspects of academic life. With their focus on life-long learning and positive reflection, Alex and Bailey encourage you to focus on your own behaviours and personal challenges and help you to find real world solutions to your problems or concerns.

Weaving inspirational stories, the best of research and theory, along with pragmatic advice from successful academics, this book provides step-by-step guidance and simple tools to help you better meet the demands of modern academia, including:

  • Optimising your effectiveness, priorities & strategy
  • Workflow & managing workload
  • Interpersonal relationships, and how to influence
  • Developing your writing, presenting and teaching skills
  • Getting your work/life balance right.

Clear, practical and refreshingly positive this book inspires you to build the career you want in academia.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Sage Publications Ltd.ISBN-13:9781473978805ISBN-10:1473978807UPC:9781473978805Book Category:Study Aids, Education, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Graduate School Guides, Adult & Continuing Education, CareersSize:9.40 x 6.60 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.431Product ID:SCRNEH05B0
Alexander M. Clark is Associate Vice President (Research) at the University of Alberta. Bailey J. Sousa is Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at the University of Alberta.
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.

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