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Welcome to the university, where the Academic Hunger Games, fueled by precarious employment conditions, is the new reality: a perpetual jostle for short-term contracts and the occasional plum job. But Inger Mewburn is here to tell you that life doesn't have to be so grim. A veteran of the university gig economy, Mewburn -- aka The Thesis Whisperer -- is perfectly placed to reflect on her experience and offer a wealth of practical strategies to survive and thrive.In Becoming an Academic, Mewburn, who has spent over a decade helping PhD students succeed in graduate school, deftly navigates the world of the working academic. Offering tips and tricks for survival, she touches on everything from thesis and article writing and keeping motivation alive to time management, research strategies, mastering new technologies, applying for promotion, dealing with sexism in the workplace, polishing grant applications, and deciding what to wear to give a keynote address.
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I am an academic who has been specialising in research education since 2oo6. I am currently the Director of Research Training at The Australian National University where I am responsible for co-ordinating, communicating and measuring centrally run research training activities and doing research on student experience to inform practice. Aside from editing and contributing to the Thesis Whisperer, I write scholarly papers, books and book chapters about research student experiences, with a special interest in the digital practices of academics.
