Higher Education Whisperer

In " Australian University Staff Job Losses Exceed Pandemic Financial Outcomes " (09 May 2022), Frank Larkins from University of M...

Natalie Lloyd, on screen from her camper-van, in Teaching Lab 1.08, Birch Building, ANU. Photo by Tom Worthington, CC-BY 7 April 2022  Greet...

Linus Tan The Research Whisperer has a helpful article on " Starting a consultancy can be like finding a date " (by Linus Tan , 27...

The Thesis Whisperer, Professor Inger Mewburn, has suggested that "... for the next 18 months at least, academic jobs will be scarce –...

In Rich academic, poor academic? Making an academic living in Covid times (5 August 2020), Dr Inger Mewburn, The Thesis Whisperer , discuss...

This week I attended a presentation from an early career academic on the challenges of having a family and a research career, even before CO...

Professor Inger Mewburn, The Thesis Whisperer ,  has warned of a imminent economic crisis in higher education and called on those involved w...

Greetings from the Canberra Innovation Network for the launch of " PostAc ", to help PhD students into non-academic research ...

The app " PostAc " has been developed to help PhD students into non-academic research careers. This is by Dr Inger Mewburn, d...

The Australian National University(ANU) was awarded a Trade Mark for the word POSTAC (Number 1872576) on 19 April 2018). This com...

Mewburn, Suominen and Grant (2017) report on research which used Artificial Intelligence to read job ads and look for those requiring high l...

Recently I was asked how Ph.D. programs at Australian universities could be improved, so the graduates had better real-world skills, for job...

Professor Imelda Whelehan , Dean of Higher Degree Research at The Australian National University (ANU) has invited staff and students to h...

Burmeister (2015) reports the results of  interviews with 44 students and staff involved in post-graduate IT education at Charles Sturt Univ...

Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where Margot Pearson is speaking on " Enhancing the experienced environ...

Margot Pearson will speak on " Enhancing the experienced environment for doctoral candidates in a diverse array of settings and arrang...

Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where Nigel Palmer , honorary research fellow with the Centre for the Stud...

Nigel Palmer  will speak on " Attrition and Completion in Doctoral Education: A Wicked Problem? " at the A ustralian National Un...

Greetings from the Australian National University in Canberra, where Dr Margaret Kiley is talking on " Should we be worried about the ...

Dr Margaret Kiley , will speak on " Should we be worried about the PhD? ", at the Australian National University in Canberra, 4p...