Dear MECCSA List Members,

I write in the hope that the following may be of interest to you, your colleagues, and/or students.

As some of you may be aware, in November 2012 I launched The New Academic (http://www.nadinemuller.org.uk/blog/the-new-academic), a continuing series of blog posts on all things academic, aimed at postgraduate and early-career researchers. Rather than lengthy personal accounts, The New Academic aims to provide short tips and guidance – however subjective - on key academic activities.

I now write to you with two requests (besides hoping you will visit the blog and comment, or even recommend it to others):


  1.  If you are a researcher and would like to propose a guest post on a topic of your choice, please get in touch with me. Posts may be personal accounts of your experiences in academia generally, or may address specific issues you've encountered. Posts from senior academics who wish to share their experiences are as welcome as those from postgraduate and early-career researchers.
  2.  Considering recent announcements of funding cuts, the next season of The New Academic will be dedicated exclusively to the experiences of part-time and/or self-funded postgraduate students, who can, unfortunately, often find themselves overlooked within departments (though of course this isn't always the case) and within the academic landscape. If you were or are a part-time and/or self-funded postgraduate and would like to contribute a post about your experiences, please do get in touch. I already have a list of 30+ people on my potential author list for this series of posts, and the more voices are heard, the better.

Please feel to get in touch with me via [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask], and feel free to pass this message on to anyone you think may be interested. Any comments and suggestions are gratefully received, as are suggestions for guest posts.

I hope you'll find the blog a valuable resource – as you will see, it lays no claim to being a universal database of knowledge, but to simply provide useful "beginners' information and overviews which I hope will be of help to other postgraduate and early-career academics.

All the best and thanks for reading,

Nadine

Dr Nadine Muller
Lecturer in English Literature & Cultural History
Liverpool John Moores University
Dean Walters Building
1 St. James Road
Liverpool
L1 7BR

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