ID: 45602
Description
Here\'s an excellent resource for the aspiring or existing law lecturer.
From the publisher:
"How do you become a legal academic? What skills and experience are necessary to progress your career? In which ways could you enrich your job?
With contributions from more than 60 established academics, this handbook offers essential guidance on starting, pursuing, managing and advancing a career in legal academia. Whether you are looking for ways to overcome challenges or to seek out new opportunities, this book provides practical advice through relevant research, personal experience, and anecdotal evidence.
Four fictional academics who want to pursue different career paths in different academic institutions are introduced at the start of the book. Each chapter then delves into a specific topic from the perspective of one of these academics, including: making the transition from legal practice, investigating gender issues, gaining recognition for teaching, building a research profile, and organising a specialist conference."
The characters are: "Meg, who has some experience of legal practice and has a job at a research-rich institution; Anton who joined a private provider leaving a career as a city lawyer behind; Jack who has significant teaching experience and works in a teaching intensive university; and Nadia who has completed a PhD and is starting her career in a research intensive university."
Chapters include:
- Lectures by Anthony Bradney
- Designing Research by Matthew Weait
- From Module Leadership to Course Leadership by Donna Whitehead
- Writing for a Professional Audience by John Hodgson
- Designing out Plagiarism by Alison Bone
- External Examiners by Chris Gale
- Facilitating Small Group Discussions by Francis King
- Social Media, Blogging and Tweeting by Paul Bernal
- Challenges of International Students by Deveral Capps
- Applying for Research Funding by Sally Wheeler
- Presenting at Conferences by Fiona Cownie
Price: ?23 for collection or ?26 for UK postage
Condition: Like new with slight turning of the corners on front and back and some manufacturing residue on the top edge of some pages towards the spine
ISBN: 9781137434289
Publication year: 2016
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Format: Paperback
From the publisher:
"How do you become a legal academic? What skills and experience are necessary to progress your career? In which ways could you enrich your job?
With contributions from more than 60 established academics, this handbook offers essential guidance on starting, pursuing, managing and advancing a career in legal academia. Whether you are looking for ways to overcome challenges or to seek out new opportunities, this book provides practical advice through relevant research, personal experience, and anecdotal evidence.
Four fictional academics who want to pursue different career paths in different academic institutions are introduced at the start of the book. Each chapter then delves into a specific topic from the perspective of one of these academics, including: making the transition from legal practice, investigating gender issues, gaining recognition for teaching, building a research profile, and organising a specialist conference."
The characters are: "Meg, who has some experience of legal practice and has a job at a research-rich institution; Anton who joined a private provider leaving a career as a city lawyer behind; Jack who has significant teaching experience and works in a teaching intensive university; and Nadia who has completed a PhD and is starting her career in a research intensive university."
Chapters include:
- Lectures by Anthony Bradney
- Designing Research by Matthew Weait
- From Module Leadership to Course Leadership by Donna Whitehead
- Writing for a Professional Audience by John Hodgson
- Designing out Plagiarism by Alison Bone
- External Examiners by Chris Gale
- Facilitating Small Group Discussions by Francis King
- Social Media, Blogging and Tweeting by Paul Bernal
- Challenges of International Students by Deveral Capps
- Applying for Research Funding by Sally Wheeler
- Presenting at Conferences by Fiona Cownie
Price: ?23 for collection or ?26 for UK postage
Condition: Like new with slight turning of the corners on front and back and some manufacturing residue on the top edge of some pages towards the spine
ISBN: 9781137434289
Publication year: 2016
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Format: Paperback