Before each week we will put up notes for the resources chosen to inform the theme of that week.
We have a set of readings from which we have drawn, we will likely alter some of these as the course plays out to better meet your needs and interests.
Block 1
Week 1 Prologue, interlogue, dialogue: why you want to be an academic or do you?
Week 2 Blogging and academic practice; writing reflectively (The Neoliberal University: Academic career in a time increasing precarity)
Week 3 Current issues and trends in the higher education sector in Australia (What's at stake in the Australian Higher Education Landscape?)
Block 2
Week 4 Constructing a digital profile and academic blogging
Week 5 Sociable scholarship (The 101 guide to raising the profile of your research)
Week 6 Computational social science (Developing academic identities in multiple professional locations and contexts)
Block 3
Week 7 Thinking about your research (Developing a defiant research imagination)
Week 8 Not quite a reading free week: for revision, catch-up and/or consolidation
Week 9 Mapping the intellectual terrain: journals, conferences, key sites, influential players.
Block 4
Week 10 Mapping your draft paper
Week 11 The activist and scholar
Week 12 Making good career decisions. Feedback on draft working papers.