About

I have tried to focus on resources specific to Australia where I live and teach. There are already a significant amount of easily locatable and well-read sites dedicated to North American and Western European content. Some of this content I have included when it is transferrable but otherwise I wanted to create something more useful for my local colleagues and students.

 Resources about Job Hunting

• Steve Joy, How to Shine in an Academic Interview

• Guide to answering academic job interview questions

• Dr Thomas Apperley from UNSW has prepared a series of youtube videos as an online CV/Job Workshop.

Resources about Casual Employment

• Dale Tweedie, Academics as employers: accepting the responsibility

• Precarious Faculty blog

• NTEU's UniCasuals: The National Tertiary Education Union is the Australian union that covers the higher education industry. If you are on a full-time, fixed term or continuing contract it is imperative to be part of the union so that your fees can go to helping your co-workers agitate for better job security and to provide legal cover when needed.

• The Smart Casual blog

Library and Museum Fellowships

• National Library of Australia Fellowships page

• State Library of NSW Fellowships page

• State Library of Victoria Fellowships page

• State Library of Queensland Fellowships page

• State Library of Western Australia Fellowships page

• Northern Territory History Grants Program

• The Australian Museum Foundation & Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI) Fellowships

Social Media for Academics

• Amy Mollet et. al. (2017). Communicating Your Research with Social Media: A Practical Guide to Using Blogs, Podcasts, Data Visualisations and Video. Sage: Thousand Oaks.

• Mark Carrigan (2019). Social Media for Academics, 2nd edition. Sage: Thousand Oaks.

• Starr Sackstein (2015). Blogging for Educators: Writing for Professional Learning. Sage: Thousand Oaks.