Academics
Explore our resource hub which brings together curated resources to support academics navigating the complex balance of teaching, research, and service that defines a long-term career in higher education.
Resources for Academics
Understand what government needs from academic engagement
See academic-policy engagement from the policymaker’s perspective and use that insight to make your expertise more useful and influential.
Tell the full story of your research contribution
Use evidence-informed guidance to articulate the breadth of your research contribution more effectively and recognise it in other narrative CVs.
Build your network without having to ‘work the room’
Build professional relationships more intentionally, using practical approaches to networking that feel manageable and authentic.
Build equity and responsibility into your research from the outset
Use a practical framework to build equity and responsible practice into research projects, collaborations and funding proposals.
Academic Engagement Toolkit
This academic toolkit helps academics better understand how engagement with government works and how their expertise can be used most effectively.
Crafting an effective Narrative CV
Developed by the the University of Cambridge, this resource includes examples of effective Narrative CVs.
Peer Discussion Guide: Recognising your value – contribution and success beyond outputs
This guide curates a small selection of related resources and offers a light structure for reflection and conversation.
Peer Discussion Guide: Protecting time for scholarship and writing
This guide curates a small selection of related resources and offers a light structure for reflection and conversation.
Stay Productive with Your Writing (Even When You’re Not “In the Mood”)
Use the POWER writing framework to separate planning, organising, writing, editing and reviewing so that you can make progress regardless of motivation or energy levels.
Influencing effectively within higher education
Develop practical approaches to influencing without authority, building credibility, understanding institutional priorities and making contributions more visible.
Creating space for scholarship: what writing retreats can teach us
Explore how writing retreat research can help create the conditions for sustained scholarship, wellbeing and intellectual engagement.
Recognising and valuing invisible contributions
Reflect on often-overlooked forms of academic contribution such as mentoring, service, leadership, relationship-building and support for others.
Finding flow in your work
Understand the conditions that support deep engagement, motivation, creativity and fulfilment, and identify activities that sustain your best work.
Redefining academic success and recognising contribution
Reflect on broader definitions of academic success and develop a richer understanding of your contribution beyond traditional metrics.
Protect time for deep work and scholarship
Learn how protecting time for deep intellectual work can support scholarship, creativity, productivity and long-term academic impact.
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