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Negotiating tenure track position after major career grant
I have been pushing hard for several years to get an academic job, with little success. The best job I could get was a non-tenure track group leader position, with very questionable promotion criteria....
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Why people without publication can have a good placement?
I am browsing CVs of some new AP who graduated this or last year and take on an AP as their first position in a prestigious EU university. I surprisingly find that none of them have successfully ...
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How to deal with systematic rigging of academic position job postings?
In a discussion with some of my close friends in other academic institutes, we noticed the common experience* in which it seems that well over 80% of the advertised job postings for permanent or ...
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Becoming professor and showing autonomy - when to exclude supervising professor from co-authorship
Following common scenario:
You wrote a proposal for a larger several million € research project with several university partners after your PhD, the project got funded and you are the project manager,...
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Motivation letter for tenure track position
A tenure track position I'm applying to (Netherlands) asks for a "motivation letter" in addition to the research statement. It doesn't give any details about what it should contain. Therefore my ...
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How is a tenure-track appointment in Sweden?
I have been offered a tenure-track position in Sweden starting this September. I am very excited. Due to both cultural and working system differences, many things are unclear to me. I do not want to ...
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Are all permanent positions "tenure-track"? [closed]
I was offered a permanent position as a "senior researcher" in Europe without teaching responsibilities. As some of you may know, the term "tenure" is getting more and more popular in Europe.
"Can ...
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Are Assistant professorships with no starting packages/benefits and high teaching load considered normal?
I am asking this question because I simply do not know.
The story is that some department (northern continental Europe for what is worth) is (unofficially for the moment) negotiating an Assistant ...
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What is (if there is one) the equivalent of the tenure-track phase in Europe?
In the US, tenure-track (TT) positions seem a common and natural step in the progression towards an academic career and quite "stable" state-wise in terms of what one might expect from them, in that ...
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