Professional development

The following represent a random and perhaps eclectic collection of resources recommended by people successful in the great employment quest. We’ve also included a set of websites offering interesting and in some cases provocative advice on preparing yourself for professional engagement.

Job Advertisements:

• The Times Higher Education
• The Guardian
• Jobs.ac.uk One of the most comprehensive job websites that allows targeted searching and provides email updates based on your criteria

Advice on careers and professional development:

• Vitae Resources for postgraduate researchers (on supervision, completing your PhD, career choices)
• Mind Tools Useful resources on career development, leadership and personal management: particularly useful articles on time management and dealing with procrastination!)
• PhD Tips An eclectic collection of articles and links on doing and writing up PhD research
• Maslow’s Attic Extremely good advice and useful resources on career change, recruitment and thinking about what it is you really want to do

Research Fellowships:

We cite this telling sentence from the Johns Hopkins Research Administration team: “While faculty contacts with program officials at funding agencies will always be the single most important source of information on funding opportunities, the information …[below] may be of assistance during any search for outside funding.”

• The British Academy
• The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
• AHRC Early Career Fellowships
• ResearchResearch News, analysis, funding and data  http://www.researchresearch.com/
• Berkeley Post Doctoral Listings A comprehensive list of post-doctoral opportunities, including some from European institutions

For Northern American Fellowships and Research Grants:

• Folger Institute/Folger-Shakespeare Library
• Library of Congress
• Houghton Library (Harvard University)
• Clark Library (UCLA)
• Huntington Library
• Newberry Library
• Library Company of Philadelphia
• American Philosophical Society
• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas)
• John Carter Brown Library (Brown University)
• Beinecke Library, Yale University

Teaching:

• English Subject Centre

Academic networking:

• Academia.edu

Funding

• Student Cash Point