Achieving Academic Promotion

Marian Mahat is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Marian has more than twenty years of professional and academic experience, spanning several universities, the Australian Federal and local governments, as well as the private sector. Her research focuses on student learning and outcomes in different learning and teaching contexts and systems.Jennifer Tatebe is a Lecturer in the School of Critical Studies in Education, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her work examines the transformative potential of education in disadvantaged contexts by exploring the socioeconomic and political contexts of these educational spaces and their influence on teaching and learning.

• Foreword; Rowena ArshadPart 1: Scholars' Experiences and Personal Reflections on Academic Promotion Chapter 1: Demystifying the academic promotion process; Marian Mahat and Jennifer Tatebe Chapter 2: From perilous to permanent; Jennifer Tatebe Chapter 3: Being female in academia; Marian Mahat Chapter 4: Raising the bar: Landing your first academic position in U.S. higher education; Blair Izard and David Moss Part 2: International Perspectives on the Structural and Institutional Processes of Academic Promotion Chapter 5: Academic promotion in the UK: Your guide to success; Jackie Calkwell Chapter 6: Academic careers and promotions in Finland and Austria: System and institutional perspectives; Jussi Kivistó, Elias Pekkola, and Attila Pausits Chapter 7: The academic market in Latin America: Challenges and opportunities for early career scholars; Elizabeth Balbachevsky Chapter 8: What now for the graduate and early career academics; Graeme Aitken

Achieving Academic Promotion is an important and highly valuable resource for academics at all career stages. This book both supports and challenges all of us to focus on our career trajectories with confidence, precision and ownership. Tips and advice provided throughout are pragmatic and professionally contextualised to ensure relevance across the international academic community. The personal reflections from the authors add a significant dimension to understanding and successfully addressing promotion processes while managing the realities of the day to day complexities that would otherwise subsume our intentions successfully build our careers. A ‘must read’ for everyone looking to realise their potential through strategic career enhancement.