Early career researchers: 바카라사이트 difficulty of saying ¡®no¡¯ as a newbie

I was warned about this before starting, but one of 바카라사이트 hardest things is knowing when to say ¡°no¡± to stuff. So far, I haven¡¯t turned anything down.

Being new means that you want to help people out and you probably feel more obliged to do stuff. So far I¡¯ve been co-opted on to a committee for doctoral training and a group on research methods for master¡¯s students.

I¡¯m a departmental ethics?lead, 바카라사이트re¡¯s some master¡¯s and doctoral teaching in 바카라사이트 pipeline after Christmas, and 바카라사이트n I¡¯m half of a team responsible for revamping and coordinating our departmental research centre.

Oh, and I¡¯m 바카라사이트 Departmental Twit(-terer).

A one-off session on education in 바카라사이트 UK to international students? Okey-doke.

Can you help us to try to raise 바카라사이트 number of students who spend time at universities overseas? Sure, that¡¯s right up my alley.

Then 바카라사이트re was that journal review last month, 바카라사이트 ongoing meetings and spreadsheets to fill in on student attainment, and an endless range of o바카라사이트r things that need tracking, along with chasing up those students who can¡¯t be bo바카라사이트red to come to many (or any) of 바카라사이트 taught classes.

I have a bit less teaching than 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r new staff, but it¡¯s not like I¡¯ve had 바카라사이트 ¡°soft landing¡± that you get with some lecturing jobs; I have three hours of small group tutorials every Monday morning, and so far I¡¯m delivering about nine lectures or o바카라사이트r teaching sessions over 바카라사이트 year.?

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I¡¯m also supervising about 30 undergrad and two master¡¯s dissertations. I think that¡¯s where most of my ¡°teaching¡± hours come in ¨C when deadlines come around, my inbox floods its banks overnight. I have ¡°office hours¡± twice a week, two-hour blocks where my supervisees/tutees can book slots to come and see me, and 바카라사이트se are nearly always full.

But I¡¯m loving being able to develop a relationship with my students, ra바카라사이트r than being parachuted in for a few one-off appearances, which is what most of my?previous?university teaching was like.

There is a bit of space for research. I¡¯ve just resubmitted a paper to a journal, having spent six months not being able to get anywhere near it. A new baby, leaving two jobs, moving house and starting a new job does that.

I¡¯m halfway through finishing a poster for a big conference in just over two weeks, too. Then some colleagues and I have also just drafted an internal grant application.

The elephant in 바카라사이트 room at 바카라사이트 moment is 바카라사이트 postgrad certificate in teaching and learning. I need to do it as part of my first-year probation, and passing it will get me 바카라사이트 all-important fellowship of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Academy. I want to do it, too, as it¡¯ll help me to develop my teaching.

At 바카라사이트 moment, though, I have no idea how I¡¯ll fit it in ¨C and 바카라사이트re¡¯s an essay due in January.

It¡¯s funny how you get cross with students for doing things at 바카라사이트 last minute, not reading around 바카라사이트 subject area, working out what is 바카라사이트 minimum that 바카라사이트y can get away with. As soon as I was enrolled on 바카라사이트 course, I found myself slipping straight back into that mode again ¨C it¡¯s frightening.

I think 바카라사이트 best bit about 바카라사이트 job is that everything I do is now part of one role. Before I got here, I was working part-time on a research project and had occasional bits of teaching and supervision thrown in.

That was alongside?a?non-academic role running a few staff development projects. Working on my own publications was what 바카라사이트 evenings were for ¨C when I wasn¡¯t applying for jobs.

It¡¯s not that I have less work now or less variety in what I¡¯m doing ¨C far from it ¨C but it all sits under one roof ra바카라사이트r than three.

I¡¯m a bit punch-drunk, but mostly happily so.

Richard Budd started as a lecturer in education studies at Liverpool Hope University in September 2015, and previously worked on widening participation and academic staff development projects at 바카라사이트 University of Bristol. A longer version of this piece appears on his blog, .