Here is a collection of links for hints, tips, writing, job documents and everything that I think are relevant for PhD students and Early Career Academics. (Please feel free to send suggestions if you come across something that should be included!)
Job Applications
The Professor Is In: US based, by Karen Kelsky. Great tips for CVs, grant writing, cover letters, how to not act like a graduate student, how to get the most out of conferences.
CVs and Cover letters and Research Proposals:
Job Advertisements:
Fellowship and Grant Providers (that have early career specific programmes - UK and EU)
Interview Preparation:
Writing:
Academic Writing
General Academicness: Theses, Writing, Publishing etc!
Writing Groups
Writing a book
From Pat Thompson's academic writing blog:
Advice pages (links to general ECR advice pages on other sites)
Job Applications
The Professor Is In: US based, by Karen Kelsky. Great tips for CVs, grant writing, cover letters, how to not act like a graduate student, how to get the most out of conferences.
- The New Academic: UK based, compiled by Nadine Muller. The site includes guides for grant writing, job applications, interviews, thinking about REF, vivas and all the good bits of UK academic life.
CVs and Cover letters and Research Proposals:
- CV and Cover Letter writing for Academic and Research, a PFD from UVA with a LOT of information, including sample CVs and cover letters (good and bad, although I'm not 100% convinced of the 'goodness' of some of the good!)
- Joy Connolly's Job Market Handbook - for US based Classics PhDs, but some useful information more generally.
- Job Hero has lots of information about writing job documents (especially for industry), including sample resumes and cover letters for all kinds of different jobs - thanks to Lucile.
Job Advertisements:
- jobs.ac.uk - primarily UK, some EU and further afield
- Euraxess - EU
- Der Zeit Stellenmarkt - Germany
- H-Net - USA, and some international inc. UK
Fellowship and Grant Providers (that have early career specific programmes - UK and EU)
- AHRC - includes early career pathways for research grants and leadership grants as well as the New Generation Thinkers programme. These require current university affiliation
- British Academy - includes Postdoctoral Fellowships, Rising Star engagement fellowships, Newton Fellowships (for researchers based in specific countries to come to the UK)
- Leverhulme Trust - includes Early Career Fellowships, and other project grants
- European Research Council - Starting grants for applicants 2-7 years post-PhD
- Wellcome Trust - awards in bio-medical science, science engagement, and medical humanities
Interview Preparation:
- There's an Interview Question Tool at jobs.ac.uk! This gives you interview questions (under the categories of 'General', 'Academic and Research' and 'Management and Administration') and also gives you hits and tips to answering those questions!
Writing:
Academic Writing
- 10 tips to improve your academic writing
- Verb cheat sheet from The Thesis Whisperer, to help you pick the right verb to convey how you feel about someone else's work (in reviews etc.)
- Slash and Burn? The Thesis Whisperer (again!) on how to cut down your word count.
General Academicness: Theses, Writing, Publishing etc!
- The Thesis Whisperer, Australian based researcher on all things thesis.
- PhD2Published, wonderful advice for PhDs and ECRs on academic publishing. They also run AcWriMo (that's Academic Writing Month!)
Writing Groups
- Although not aimed (specifically) at arts/humanities, these three posts by Nicole at Quack Science about commenting constructively on other people's writing are well worth reading. Part One. Part Two. Part Three.
Writing a book
From Pat Thompson's academic writing blog:
- Thesis to Book: You may need to change your writing voice
- Paper, Thesis and Book Titles - think 'key words' and 'the point'
- What does a book proposal reviewer do?
- From PhD to Book - on not writing under anaesthetic
- How to write a book proposal
- Should I send a Book Proposal before the Manuscript is completely finished?
Advice pages (links to general ECR advice pages on other sites)
- Royal Historical Society: Early Career Historians information pages