
Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors
The Many Routes to Career Success
- 1st Edition - May 3, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Anna Garry
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 3 4 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 5 5 0 - 2
Inspiring Conversations with Women Professors: The Many Routes to Career Success provides stories behind the many paths to professorship taken by these featured women. It includes… Read more
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Request a sales quoteInspiring Conversations with Women Professors: The Many Routes to Career Success provides stories behind the many paths to professorship taken by these featured women. It includes information on their diverse life stories and how they navigated the beginning, middle stages, and other parts of their careers, including unexpected paths, support and how they got hooked by science/their field. In addition, they discuss why they chose this career, the obstacles they encountered, and how they found a way forward. Each interview encapsulates the advice and practical solutions they give.
- Features interviews with a diverse group of females in faculty and leadership positions, and from a broad range of STEM disciplines
- Includes coverage of the tenure-track process, integration into the academic community, challenges at leadership level, and advantages of corporate governance
- Focuses on strong, actionable solutions for overcoming career obstacles
Those pursuing or involved in a career in academia, this includes PhD students and postdocs seeking advice on the next steps, young professors seeking tenure, mid-career and tenured professors facing career obstacles. Additional audience includes university administrators, careers practitioners, human resource specialists, and gender experts
AcknowledgementsForewordIntroductionSection I: 22 ConversationsSection II: Issues and Challenges identified with advice on how to deal with theseConclusionReferencesGlossary/Appendix
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 3, 2019
- No. of pages (Paperback): 190
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128123461
- eBook ISBN: 9780128125502
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